e-groom came; and they that were
ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

'Afterwards came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

'But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the
Son of Man cometh.'

CHAPTER XI.

THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM.

When it was time for Him to end His work on earth, Jesus started for
Jerusalem. The people in Jerusalem heard that He was coming, and
crowds of them poured out of Jerusalem to meet Him. They carried
boughs of palm trees in their hands, and waved them, and cried,
'HOSANNA! BLESSED BE THE KING THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!
PEACE IN HEAVEN, AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST.'

Presently Jesus came to a part of the Mount of Olives where He could
see Jerusalem and the Temple straight before Him; and as He looked at
them, He wept aloud. He wept because they loved their sins, and hated
their Saviour. He wept because He knew that God would have to punish
them. He knew that in a very few years the Romans would come and fight
against Jerusalem, and burn down that Temple, and kill thousands of the
Jews, or carry them away as slaves. Were not these things enough to
make the Lord Jesus weep?

[Illustration: Mount of Olives and Jerusalem.]

The blind and the lame came to Jesus in the Temple, and He made them
well; and when the little children cried, 'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF
DAVID,' He was pleased to hear their song. But the priests were very
angry. 'Hosanna to the Son of David' means 'Save us, Jesus, our King.'
The priests could not bear to hear the children call Jesus their King,
and ask Him to save them. And Satan is very angry now when He hears a
little child say, 'Save me, O Jesus, my King.' But Jesus is pleased.

During these last days Jesus stayed quietly each night at Bethany; but
the priests were very busy thinking how they could take Him prisoner,
and they were very pleased when Judas came in secretly, and said, 'Give
me money, and I will give you Jesus.' And the priests said they would
give Judas thirty pieces of silver if he would give Jesus up to them.
Thirty pieces of silver! Why, that was only about seventeen dollars
($17)--only as much as used to be paid for a slave.

The next day while Jesus stayed quietly in Bethany, Peter and John were
very busy, for Jesus had sent them to Jerusalem to get ready for the
Passover. They had to