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The Paschal Supper 119 different also from that customary among the other Jews at this feast. Jesus explained all to the guests, but onlitted the ceremonies that had been added by the Pharisees. He carved the three lambs Himself and served at table, saying that He did it as their servant. They remained together far into the night, singing and praying. Jerusalem was so still and solemn during that whole day. The Jews not engaged in the slaughtering of the lambs remained shut up in their houses, which were ornamented with dark green foliage. The immense multitude of people were, after the slaughtering, so busy in the interior of their homes, and all was so still that it produced upon file quite a melancholy impression. I saw on that day also where all the Paschal lambs for the numerous strangers, of whom Inany were encamped before the gates, were roasted. Both outside and inside the city, there were built on certain places long, low walls, but so broad that one could walk on them. In these walls were furnace after furnace, and at certain distances lived men who attended to them, and received a small remuneration for their services. At these furnaces, travellers and strangers could, at the different feasts, or at any other tinle, roast their meat and cook any kind of food. The consuming of the fat of the Paschal larrlbs went on in the Temple far into the night. After the first watch, the altar was purified, and the doors thrown open at a very early hour the next nlorning. Jesus and His disciples spent the night in prayer and with but little sleep at Lazarus's on Mount Sion. The disciples from Galilee slept in the wings of the building. At daybreak they went up to the Temple, which was lighted by numerous lamps, and to which the people were already flocking fronl all parts with their offerings. Jesus took His stand in one of the courts with His disciples, and there taught. A crowd of vendors had again pressed into the court of the suppliants and even into that of the
120 Life of Jesus Christ women. They were scarcely two steps from the worshippers. As they still came crowding in, Jesus bade the newcomers to keep back, and those that had already taken their position to withdraw. But they resisted, and called upon the guard nearby for help. The latter, not venturing to act of themselves, reported what was taking place to the Sanhedrim. Jesus, meantime, persisted in His command to the vendors to withdraw. When they boldly refused, He drew from the folds of His robe a cord of twisted reeds or slender willow branches and pushed up the ring that held the ends confined, whereupon one half of it opened out into numerous threads like a discipline. With this He rushed upon the vendors, overthrew their tables, and drove back those that resisted, while the discipIes, pressing on right and left, shoved His opponents away. And now canle a crowd of priests from the Sanhedrim and summoned Jesus to say who had authorized Him to behave so in that place. Jesus answered that, although the Holy Mystery had been taken away from the Temple, yet it had not ceased to be a sacred place and one to which the prayer of so many just was directed. It was not a place for usury, fraud, and for low and noisy traffic. Jesus having alleged the commands of His Father, they asked Him who was His Father. He answered that He had no time then to explain that point to men and even if He did they would not understand, saying which He turned away fronl them and continued His chase of the vendors. Two companies of soldiers now arrived on the spot, but the priests did not dare to take action against Jesus. They thenlselves were ashanled of having tolerated such an abuse. The crowd gathered around declared Jesus in the right, and the soldiers even lent a hand to remove the vendors' stands and to clear away the overturned tables and wares. Jesus and the disciples drove the vendors to the exterior court, but those that were modestly selling
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women. They were scarcely two steps from the worshippers.<br />
As they still came crowding in, Jesus bade the<br />
newcomers to keep back, and those that had already<br />
taken their position to withdraw. But they resisted, and<br />
called upon the guard nearby for help. The latter, not<br />
venturing to act of themselves, reported what was taking<br />
place to the Sanhedrim. Jesus, meantime, persisted in His<br />
command to the vendors to withdraw. When they boldly<br />
refused, He drew from the folds of His robe a cord of<br />
twisted reeds or slender willow branches and pushed up<br />
the ring that held the ends confined, whereupon one half<br />
of it opened out into numerous threads like a discipline.<br />
With this He rushed upon the vendors, overthrew their<br />
tables, and drove back those that resisted, while the discipIes,<br />
pressing on right and left, shoved His opponents<br />
away. And now canle a crowd of priests from the<br />
Sanhedrim and summoned Jesus to say who had<br />
authorized Him to behave so in that place. Jesus<br />
answered that, although the Holy Mystery had been taken<br />
away from the Temple, yet it had not ceased to be a<br />
sacred place and one to which the prayer of so many just<br />
was directed. It was not a place for usury, fraud, and for<br />
low and noisy traffic. Jesus having alleged the commands<br />
of His Father, they asked Him who was His Father. He<br />
answered that He had no time then to explain that point<br />
to men and even if He did they would not understand,<br />
saying which He turned away fronl them and continued<br />
His chase of the vendors.<br />
Two companies of soldiers now arrived on the spot,<br />
but the priests did not dare to take action against Jesus.<br />
They thenlselves were ashanled of having tolerated such<br />
an abuse. The crowd gathered around declared Jesus in<br />
the right, and the soldiers even lent a hand to remove the<br />
vendors' stands and to clear away the overturned tables<br />
and wares. Jesus and the disciples drove the vendors to<br />
the exterior court, but those that were modestly selling
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