crowd around Him,
Own His title, praise His Name:
Crown Him, crown Him;
Spread abroad the Victor's fame.

Hark, those bursts of acclamation!
Hark, those loud triumphant chords!
Jesus takes the highest station:
O what joy the sight affords!
Crown Him, crown Him;
"King of kings, and Lord of lords."
--_Thomas Kelly_.

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How the Lord Jesus spent His last days in Jerusalem,
how He loved His friends unto the end, how He
fell into the hands of His enemies,
and how he crowned a life
of service with a
heroic death.

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PERSONS OF THE STORY.
_The LORD JESUS_.
_The Disciples_.
_Lazarus_.
_Mary_.
_Martha_.
_Judas_.
_Annas_.
_Caiaphas_.
_Herod_.
_Pilate, the Roman Governor_.
_Joseph of Arimathaea_.
_The people of Jerusalem, Pharisees, priests, soldiers, the two thieves_.
_Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary Magdalene and other women_.

PLACES OF THE STORY.
_Jerusalem_.
_Bethany_.
_An upper chamber in the city_.
_Gethsemane_.
_Palace of the high priest_.
_The Hall of Judgment_.
_Pilate's palace_.
_The palace of Herod_.
_Pilate's Judgment Hall_.
_Calvary_.

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I

THE SUPPER AT BETHANY

_How the Lord Jesus Was Bid to a Feast of Loving Tribute_.

The passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem
out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves. They
sought therefore for Jesus, and spoke one with another, as they stood
in the temple, "What think ye? That he will not come to the feast?"

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that,
if any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take
him.

Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. So they made him a
supper there: and Martha served; and Lazarus was one of them that sat
at meat with him. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of
spikenard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped
his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the
ointment. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to
betray him, saith, "Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred
pence, and given to the poor?"

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But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a
good work on me. For