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Show Eer. Robert H. Harper Jisus Faces tht City. lesson for March 4: Luke 19: 37-48. Golden Ttxt: Luke 19: 42. Several momentous things occurred oc-curred when Jesus made his last j visit to Jerusalem. First to claim j our attention was his triumphal entry, while . he was being acclaimed ac-claimed by a multitude of people, wildly rejoicing. Some ot the Pharisees were shocked at the behavior of the happy people and they said to Jesus: "Master, re- strain thy disciples." But Jesus on this occasion was ready to receive re-ceive the homage of the people and he declared that if they should hold their peace the stones would Immediately cry out. Notwithstanding the wild enthusiasm, en-thusiasm, Jesus wept when he came nearer the city, knowing it would soon be utterly destroyed and its people given over to sword and flame. He wept also because so many of its citizens were rejecting re-jecting him. Soon after entering the city, Jesus went into the temple and he was Indignant at what he saw there. There were animals for sacrifice sac-rifice on sale in the sacred precincts pre-cincts of the temple, and the money-changers who realized a neat sum on the exchange of the money of the pilgrims, who came from different quarters and from other countries, were doing a thriving business ln the courts of the great sanctuary. The temple authorities and other religious leaders were making a tidy sum from the sale of concessions for the traffic in the Lord's house and it was not strange that they bitterly bit-terly opposed the Lord's interference interfer-ence with it. But for the time they could do nothing against Jesus because of the favor of the multitude mul-titude toward him. |