. A child's life of Christ : in words of one syllable. andgo where he could do the most good. As soonas he was bap-tized, he left the Jor-dan, andwent to live for a time in the woods, where hehad no one to speak to, and no food to eat. Wedo not know just what he did in this place, butwe may be sure he felt much pain and woe, andlearned to know all the griefs and ills men haveto bear. The dev-il came to him in these woodsas he had once come to Ad-am and Eve in Eden,and tried to tempt him in all sorts of ways, butJe-sus paid no heed to his words. Get theehence, Sa-tan! cried Je-sus, and Sa-tan f
. A child's life of Christ : in words of one syllable. andgo where he could do the most good. As soonas he was bap-tized, he left the Jor-dan, andwent to live for a time in the woods, where hehad no one to speak to, and no food to eat. Wedo not know just what he did in this place, butwe may be sure he felt much pain and woe, andlearned to know all the griefs and ills men haveto bear. The dev-il came to him in these woodsas he had once come to Ad-am and Eve in Eden,and tried to tempt him in all sorts of ways, butJe-sus paid no heed to his words. Get theehence, Sa-tan! cried Je-sus, and Sa-tan flies, totempt him no more, and the hosts of God cameto soothe and feed him who has borne so the end of five or six weeks, Je-sus leftthese woods, or wild lands, and went back to theJor-dan, where John the Bap-tist was. WhenJohn saw him, he cried: This is the Lamb ofGod, who bears the sins of the world; and whentwo men, named John and An-drew, who werewith the Bap-tist, heard this, they went to Je-susand asked him where he lived. He said: Come. JE-SUS CLEANS-ES THE TEM-PLE 19 20 A CHILDS LIFE OF CHRIST. and see. So they went home with him; andAn-drew brought his brother Pe-ter, and said,We have found the Christ! The next daytwo more men, Phil-ip and Na-than-ael, came toJe-sus, and they all went with him to a feast inthe town of Ca-na. Ma-ry was at the feast, too,and when the wine was all gone, she told her sonthey had need of more wine. Je-sus bade themfill six stone jars fall of wa-ter, and then draw itout; and when they did this, they found thewa-ter had turned to wine. This was the firstgreat act Je-sus did, and those who saw it tookit as a sign that he was the Son of God, for nomere man could do such a thing. From Ca-na Je-sus went to Ca-per-na-um,and in a few days kept on to Je-ru-sa-lem to theGreat Feast. There he saw some men sell lambsand doves in the House of God ; and he drovethem out, for he said his Fa-thers house was aplace to pray in, and no one should buy
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