lee. His time
was in his Father's hand. Today, tomorrow, and the day following, he would
work, and then he would be perfected.

Fifth Day: New Prophets to Follow

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the
sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the
righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we
should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the
prophets. Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of
them that slew the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your
fathers. Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape
the judgment of hell? Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets,
and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify;
and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and
persecute from city to city: that upon you may come all the
righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the
righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye
slew between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I say unto you,
All these things shall come upon this generation.--Matt. 23:29-36.

This is the climax of the great invective against the religious leaders of
the nation. The last count in the indictment is that they were about to
complete the record of their fathers by rejecting and persecuting the
prophets of their generation. The fact had sunk into the public mind that
former generations had been guilty of this. "If we had been in the days of
our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of
the prophets." Jesus promises to make a test of this and foretells that
they will go the old way and so declare their spiritual solidarity with
the sins of the past. We see here that he thought of his disciples as
moving in the prophetic succession.

"Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,
Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against the
land?"

"Never shows the choice momentous till the judgment hath passed
by."

Sixth Day: The Cross for All

From that time began Jesus to show unto his disciples, that he
must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and
chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be
raised up. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be
it far fr