ow their
plan. And as for His talk about being the "bread of life,"--"This is
an hard saying," they said, "who can hear it?"

While they murmured Jesus said,

"Doth this offend you? What and if you shall see the Son of Man
ascending where He was before?"

"_It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; the
words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life._"

Then they knew that He meant something above what they could see, or
what they wanted, and many turned away from Him and went to their homes
disappointed. He had said, "there are some of you that believe not,"
and it was true. Jesus turned to the twelve who stood in silence near
Him,

"Will ye also go away?" He said.

Loving, impulsive Peter cried out,

"Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life, and
we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the
living God."

"Did I not choose you twelve," said Jesus, "and one of you is a devil."

Already evil spirits had tried to turn Judas away from the Lord by
tempting him, and he had let them into his heart. And Jesus, who knew
all men, saw them there.

CHAPTER XXV.

A JOURNEY WITH JESUS.

Jesus went away with His disciples into the "borders of Tyre and
Sidon." He did not go to the Passover feast, for the anger of the Jews
had been growing more violent toward Him and His disciples, and he took
the twelve away from the crowded towns around the Lake into the parts
that bordered upon a heathen country. He could do far more for the
simple-hearted heathen than for Jews who believed themselves to be wise
and religious.

When it was known that the young teacher of Nazareth was among them
some came to Him who were not Jews. One was a Syrian woman whose
daughter was troubled by an evil spirit, and she begged Jesus to have
mercy upon her. The disciples were not pleased to have her follow them
with strange cries in another language. They believed that the works
of Jesus were for the Jews only, and so they begged Him to send her
away. Jesus was silent, for He knew all hearts, and saw faith growing
in the heart of the poor woman.

He said, trying her faith,

"It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs."

"Truth, Lord," she said, "yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall
from their master's table."

Then Jesus hid Himself no longer from her faith, but said,

"O woman, great is thy faith! be it unto thee eve