Excerpt from Lectures on the History of Jesus Christ, Vol. 2 of 2

We have already noticed the remarkable occurrences which happened while Christ was on the road to Jerusalem. To-day, we behold him arrived there, and treated in a manner that fully justified his delay. After he had suffered his brethren to go away without him, under the impression, that he might, perhaps, not come at all; and after he had sent the seventy disciples through all the country, and they had diminished materially his company, and his publicity; we may suppose he sent forward his twelve Apostles, to keep the feast according to the law, and then lingered on the road, till the Jews were in the midst of the feast. At length Jesus arrived, and we have now to notice,

I. His appearance in the temple.

The crowd were probably excited to talk about him, by seeing his brethren there; and when these were questioned, whether their relative would be at the feast, they probably said that they had tried to persuade him, but in vain. This was all the answer that could be given to the question, " Where is he?"

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