Part 31 (2/2)

[Footnote 1: The to impure, it was customary to whiten them with lime, to warn persons not to approach them See p 315, note 3, and Mishnah, _Maasar hensi_, v 1; Talm of Jerus, _Shekalim_, i 1; _Maasar sheni_, v 1; _Moed katon_, i 2; _Sota_, ix 1; Talm of Bab, _Moed katon_, 5 _a_ Perhaps there is an allusion to the ”dyed Pharisees” in this comparison which Jesus uses]

”Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tohteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, ould not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets' Wherefore, ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers

'Therefore, also,' said the Wisdom of God,[1] 'I will send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of thee in your synagogues, and persecute thehteous blood shed upon the earth, frohteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias,[2] whom ye sleeen the tes shall conorant from what book this quotation is taken]

[Footnote 2: There is a slight confusion here, which is also found in the Targum of Jonathan (_Lament_ ii 20), between Zacharias, son of Jehoiadas, and Zacharias, son of Barachias, the prophet It is the former that is spoken of (2 _Paral_ xxiv 21) The book of the Paralipomenes, in which the assassination of Zacharias, son of Jehoiadas, is related, closes the Hebrew canon This hteousto the order in which they are presented in the Bible That of Abel is, on the contrary, the first]

[Footnote 3: Matt xxiii 2-36; Mark xii 38-40; Luke xi 39-52, xx

46, 47]

His terrible doctrine of the substitution of the Gentiles--the idea that the kingdom of God was about to be transferred to others, because those for whom it was destined would not receive it,[1] is used as a fearful ainst the aristocracy The title ”Son of God,” which he openly assu parables,[2] wherein his eneers, was an open defiance to the Judaism of the Law The bold appeal he addressed to the poor was still more seditious He declared that he had ”coht see, and that they which see ht be made blind”[3] One day, his dislike of the temple forced from him an imprudent speech: ”I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another ories in this sentence; but we do not knohatJesus attached to it But as only a pretext anted, this sentence was quickly laid hold of It reappeared in the prea in his ears a discussions always ended in tu which they only fulfilled an article of the Lahich cous, who should turn the people fro[6] At other times they called hiht to kill hiainst hiovernated[9]

[Footnote 1: Matt viii 11, 12, xx 1, and following, xxi 28, and following, 33, and following, 43, xxii 1, and following; Mark xii 1, and following; Luke xx 9, and following]

[Footnote 2: Matt xxi 37, and following; John x 36, and following]

[Footnote 3: John ix 39]

[Footnote 4: The most authentic form of this sentence appears to be in Mark xiv 58, xv 29 Cf John ii 19; Matt xxvi 61, xxvii 40]

[Footnote 5: John viii 39, x 31, xi 8]

[Footnote 6: _Deuter_ xiii 1, and following Comp Luke xx 6; John x 33; 2 _Cor_ xi 25]

[Footnote 7: John x 20]

[Footnote 8: John v 18, vii 1, 20, 25, 30, viii 37, 40]

[Footnote 9: Luke xi 53, 54]

CHAPTER XXII

MACHINATIONS OF THE ENEMIES OF JESUS

Jesus passed the autumn and a part of the winter at Jerusalem This season is there rather cold The portico of Solomon, with its covered aisles, was the place where he habitually walked[1] This portico consisted of two galleries, for of carved wood[2] It commanded the valley of Kedron, which was doubtless less covered with debris than it is at the present time The depth of the ravine could not be ht of the portico; and it seele of the slopes, as if an abyss opened immediately beneath the wall[3] The other side of the valley even at that time was adorned with sumptuous tombs Some of the monuments, which may be seen at the present day, were perhaps those cenotaphs in honor of ancient prophets[4] which Jesus pointed out, when, seated under the portico, he denounced the official classes, who covered their hypocrisy or their vanity by these colossal piles[5]

[Footnote 1: John x 23]

[Footnote 2: Jos, _BJ_, V v 2 Comp _Ant_, XV xi 5, XX ix

7]

[Footnote 3: Jos, places cited]

[Footnote 4: See ante, p 316 I am led to suppose that the tombs called those of Zachariah and of Absalo Hierus_, p 153 (edit Schott)]

[Footnote 5: Matt xxiii 29; Luke xi 47]