cause a big sensation in Jerusalem. That's
what everyone is expecting, but that is not the right way at all.
There must be some other way._

And the voice spoke up again.

[Illustration]

"_There is something else you could do. What the world needs is a
ruler like you. Everybody says that the Messiah is going to be a world
ruler, great and good. Don't let the people down! You are a great man.
You could be anything you wanted to be--a general, a governor, a
king._"

Jesus thought, _That's Satan tempting me, that's the devil himself
talking!_

He spoke out loud:

"Go away from me, Satan! For the Scriptures say, 'Thou shall worship
the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve!'"

The voice said no more. A great quietness came over Jesus. There was
no great thing that he needed to do right away. He was the Messiah,
but he did not need to make the country wealthy. He did not need to
jump from the Temple, and he did not need to command an army or rule
an empire.

There was one thing that he would have to do, but he could not tell
anybody about it yet. It was going to be his secret for a while. But
someday everybody would see what he was doing. Someday it would be
understood.

And now it was time to be on his way. He had been in the wilderness
forty days, and that was long enough. He found the trail back to the
outside world, and soon he was on the road to Galilee.

* * * * *

When Jesus got home to Galilee, he began to preach to people in the
streets. What he said at first was very much like what John the
Baptist said:

"Give up your sins, and begin to live a new life, for God has come to
rule over you!"

But the crowds that heard Jesus were not so large as those that went
to the Jordan to hear John.

Jesus needed some followers now who would be with him all the time,
and learn everything he had to tell them. John the Baptist had his
followers; "disciples" was what they were called. Jesus began to look
for disciples of his own.

One morning he went down to the shore of the Sea of Galilee. When he
came back to the town, he had four disciples with him.

Two of them were brothers named Simon and Andrew. Andrew remembered
Jesus, for he had once been a disciple of John the Baptist. He had
seen John point to Jesus, and heard him say, "He is the Lamb of God!"
Andrew had told Simon all about it.

When Jesus came to them along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he
found them pu