ripture shall be
fulfilled: 'He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and he opened not
his mouth.'"

Mary sobbing, cried aloud, "Jesus, thy mother, oh! Oh, God, my son!"

Half fainting she was held up by the holy women, who exclaimed, "O
beloved, faithful mother!"

The disciples departed, muttering, "We cannot endure it. What will be
the end of all this?"

Then burst from their lips the despairing cry, "Alas, what affliction
lies before us all?"

But Jesus said, "Sink not in the first conflict. Hold fast by me."

And the disciples repeated, "Yea, master, fast by thee."

Lazarus and the women looking back after Christ as he passed out of
sight, exclaimed, "Ah! our dear teacher," while Simon said, "He brought
happiness to my house."

Simon then turned tenderly to Mary and said: "Come, mother, and
condescend to enter in." "One consolation remains to us in
tribulation," said Mary Magdalene, and Martha added, "To have the
mother of our Lord with us." Turning to the other women, Lazarus said,
"And you, beloved ones, come with us, we will share our woe and tears
together."

All then together went into the house, Mary Magdalene supporting the
mother of Jesus.

* * * * * *

Now as they came unto Jerusalem they looked down upon the whole city
which lay before them. Then said John unto Jesus, "Master, behold what
a splendid view of Jerusalem from this spot!"

Matthew said, "The majestic temple, how splendidly it is built."

Jesus was troubled in spirit, and after gazing for a moment over the
city, clasped his hands in grief and cried, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, O
that thou hadst known even in this thy day the things that belong unto
thy peace! but now they are hidden from thine eyes!"

Jesus wept.

His disciples beholding him weep were amazed. At last Peter ventured
to say, "Master, why grievest thou so sorely?"

Jesus answered, "My Peter, the fate of this unhappy city goes to my
heart."

Then said John, "Lord, tell us what shall this fate be?"

Jesus answered and said unto them, "The days will come when her enemies
will make a trench about her walls and close her in on every side, and
lay her even with the ground. She and her children within her walls
will be dashed to the earth, and not one stone will be left upon
another."

Andrew, giving expression to the general consternation, asked,
"Wherefore shall the city have so sad a doom?"

Jesus said, "Because she hath not known the