e Feast, for in His love and pity He longed to bring the
lost children of Israel to Himself that He might bless them, as a
shepherd brings back the sheep that stray from the fold.

"I am the Good Shepherd; and I know my own, and my own know me," said
Jesus, "even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay
down my life for the sheep, and other sheep I have which are not of
this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and
they shall become one flock, one Shepherd."

Other beautiful and blessed words He said about the Shepherd and His
flock which are written in the tenth chapter of the Gospel of John, but
the learned Jews would not listen to Him, and thrice tried to kill Him
by stoning Him, but they could not harm Him, for His time had not come.

Then he went away beyond Jordan, where John first baptized, and many
believed on Him there.

CHAPTER XXX.

THE LESSON STORIES OF JESUS.

When Jesus was at prayer His disciples stood reverently apart from Him,
and one day a disciple came near when he had ceased and said,

"Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples."

Then the Lord taught them the beautiful prayer that is now said daily
all around the world, and known to every one of us, beginning, "Our
Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name."

And He told them how pleased God is to have His children ask Him for
what they need, or come to Him in trouble.

"Ask, and it shall be given you," He said; "seek, and ye shall find;
knock and it shall be opened unto you."

"If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give
him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a
serpent?"

"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give good gifts to
them that ask Him?"

It was while the Lord was teaching in the country called Peraea, east
of Jordan, that He told many things that His disciples remembered and
wrote in a book afterward, when the Holy Spirit had come to "bring all
things to their remembrance," as He had promised.

He had been teaching three years, and was thirty-three years of age.

Some of the people who lived, at Bethabara, by Jordan, were present
when He was baptized by John, and they were glad to have him stay among
them and teach, for they were a kindly people, and though not learned
like the men who were often to be found in the Temple courts