nto them, "Extort no more than that which is appointed
you."

And soldiers also asked him, saying, "And we, what must we do?"

And he said unto them, "Do violence to no man, neither take anything
wrongfully; and be content with your wages."

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized
by him. But John would have hindered him, saying, "I have need to be
baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?"

But Jesus answering said unto him, "Permit it now: for thus it
becometh us to fulfill all righteousness."

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[Illustration]
JESUS TAKING LEAVE OF HIS MOTHER.
By Bernard Plockhorst

This picture shows Jesus taking leave of Mary before beginning his
ministry.
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Then he permitted him. And Jesus, when he was
baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the
heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of
God descending as a dove, and coming upon him; and lo,
a voice out of the heavens, saying,--

"This is my beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased."

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II

THE TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS.

_How the Lord Jesus Fought with a Great Foe_.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was
led by the Spirit in the wilderness during forty days, being tempted
of the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and when they were
completed, he hungered.

And the devil said unto him, "If thou art the Son of God, command this
stone that it become bread."

And Jesus answered unto him, "It is written. 'Man shall not live by
bread alone.'"

And he led him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a
moment of time.

And the devil said unto him, "To thee will I give all this authority,
and the glory of them: for it hath been delivered unto me; and to
whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship before me,
it shall all be thine."

And Jesus answered and said unto him, "It is written, 'Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.'"

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[Illustration]
THE WILDERNESS OF THE TEMPTATION.

This wild and desolate region accords very well with our ideas of
the place of the temptation of Jesus. The great cliff in the picture
faces a narrow ravine not far from Jericho
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And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the
temple, and said unto him, "If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself
down from hence: for it