t day of the Feast, Jesus stood and cried to
the people who were about to go back to their homes. His great heart
was breaking to bring them into the Kingdom of Heaven, and He knew that
they would be scattered as sheep having no shepherd.

"If any man thirst," He cried, "let him come unto me and drink." And
He then promised to such as believe the Holy Spirit to dwell in them,
and to flow out toward all the world like rivers of living water.

So wonderfully did He preach that many said, "Of a truth this is a
prophet," and others said, "This is the Christ," while others were
filled with anger and wished to arrest Him. Indeed, when the priests
and Pharisees urged the officers to take Him, they said,

"Never man spake like this man," and they would not lay hands on Him.

But Nicodemus, a learned doctor of the law, was a friend of Jesus. He
it was who had a talk with Him one night under the olive trees about
the Spirit--the breath of God, and he with wise words turned the hatred
of the Jews away from Jesus for the time, and they went to their own
houses.

Jesus taught in the Temple again the next day, and all the people came
to listen.

It was here, perhaps, that the wicked Scribes and Pharisees brought to
Him a poor woman who had sinned. They told Him that according to the
law she ought to be stoned, and asked what He would say about it. He
did not answer, but seemed to be writing on the ground before Him as
though He did not hear them. At last, because they would have an
answer He looked at them saying,

"He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone," and
He wrote again on the ground. No one answered Jesus, but one by one
they went away too much ashamed to speak. "Hath no man condemned
thee?" asked Jesus of the woman standing sorrowful and alone.

"No man, Lord," she said.

"Neither do I condemn thee," He said, "go and sin no more."

Then Jesus sitting in the Treasury of the Temple said,

"I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in
darkness but shall have the light of life."

Many other things He said that His enemies tried to turn against Him,
and the healing on the Sabbath day of a man who had been born blind
stirred the anger of the Jews against Him, so that they sought by much
questioning to accuse Jesus of sin, not knowing that they were
themselves spiritually blind.

But He turned from them to call to the people again as He did on the
last day of th