hed it, John went into the River
Jordan with Him and baptized Him.

When Jesus had been baptized, and was full of the Holy Spirit, He went
away into a wilderness. And there, when Jesus was tired and hungry,
Satan came to Him--just as he came to Adam and Eve in the Garden of
Eden--to tempt Him.

To tempt means to try. Mother tries you sometimes, to see whether you
can be trusted; and God tries us all sometimes. But if God tries us,
it is to make us better; and if Satan tries us, it is to make us worse.

Every time that Jesus was tempted, He said, 'It is written,' and then
He told Satan something 'which was written in the Bible. That is the
very best way to fight Satan. The Bible is called 'the Sword of the
Spirit,' and Satan is afraid when he sees us using that Sword. Let us
ask God to fill us, like Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, and then we shall
soon learn how to use the Sword of the Spirit, and we too shall be able
to drive Satan away when he comes to tempt us.

Only we must be sure to read the Bible, as Jesus used to do, or else we
shall never be able to drive Satan away by telling him the things that
God has written there.

CHAPTER V

JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK

One day, when the fight of Jesus with the devil in the wilderness was
over, He came to Bethabara, where John was baptizing, and when John saw
Jesus coming towards him, he said:

'BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD, WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.'

The next day John saw Jesus again, and again he said the same words:

'BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD!'

John called Jesus the Lamb of God, because He had come to die for our
sins.

Two men were standing close to John when Jesus came by, and they heard
what he said. The name of one of these men was Andrew, and of the
other John. Jesus knew that they would like to speak to Him, so He
turned round and asked them what they wanted. 'Master,' they said,
'where dwellest Thou?' (that means 'where are you living?') Jesus
said, 'Come, and you shall see.' And He took the two disciples to His
home, and He let them stay with Him the whole of the day. What a happy
day that must have been!

Andrew had a brother called Simon, and he went and found him, and told
him that he had found the Messiah, and brought him to see his new
Master. So now Jesus had three disciples--John, Andrew, and Simon; and
next day He took them away with Him to Galilee. While they were going
along, Jesus saw a man called Philip, who came