This then was the ultimate triumph of the forces of injustice. Jesus had yearned over the people. He once wept over Jerusalem, "How often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathered her chickens under her own wings and ye would not." How He pleaded with the people, "If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink." And to those who held aloof He said, "You will not come unto me that you might have life" He mingled with the poor. The common people heard Him gladly. He was no res-poeter of persons, He accepted invit tations to the homes alike of the poor and of the well to do. His most famous saying was in a personal interview with one of the rulers. His tenderest words were to a stricken mother. He loved little children. Great crowds followed Him and in one outburst of popular acclaim He was accompanied in triumph as He entered the Holy City.
But in His preaching He had to denounce vested interests, formality and hypocrisy. And those who loved the sins that He denounced decreed that He must die. Look at the Annas, high priest emeritus, an evil genius holding high spiritual office Caiphas, his son-in-law and tool, advocating the death of Jesus under the guise of prophecy; the Pharisees, who robbed widow's houses and for a pretense made long prayers, having the majority vote in the Sanhedrim.
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