nd and soul when He
spoke those angry words. But they were not surprised, for the people
had sunken very low.

He woke His comrades in one of the next nights and said: "Get up and
let the others sleep; they will not go with us, our way is too hard.
Enemies will be on us. Whoever of you fears, let him lie down again."
Many did lie down again, and those who went with the Master numbered
twelve.

They wandered over the heights of Cana, over the mountains of Gischala
till close on midnight, and then again till sundown. The disciples
knew not whither they were going; it was enough that they were with
Him. On the way they found many of the same mind, and also some who
invited the Master to their houses for a jest, in order to be able to
say: I am acquainted with Him. Men of good position were among those
who listened to His words with the greatest attention, and then haggled
with Him to see if the Kingdom of Heaven could not be had at a cheaper
price than the world. He always answered: "What use is the world to
you if you have no soul! Herein alone is the secret of salvation; a
man must find his soul and preserve it, and raise it to the Father."
Or, as He put it differently: "God is to be found in the spirit!"

And when the stranger audience asked what "in the spirit" meant, the
apostles explained: "He means spiritual life. He would not have man
live his life merely in the flesh; man's real self. He teaches, is a
spiritual reality, and the more a man works spiritually and lives in
ideas which are not of the earth, the nearer he comes to God, who is
wholly spirit."

"Then," said they, "men learned in the law are nearer to God than the
workers in the field." To which John replied: "A man learned in the
law who depends only on the letter is far from the spirit. The
labourer who does not draw a profit from the land but thinks and
imagines how to improve it, is near the spirit."

On the road between Caedasa and Tyre is a farm. When its owner heard
that the Prophet was in the neighbourhood, he sent out people to find
Him and invite Him to go to the farm where He would be safe from the
snares of the Pharisees. But the owner was himself a Pharisee and he
intended to examine Jesus, perhaps to tempt Him to betray Himself and
then deliver Him over to the government. Jesus told the messenger that
He would gladly accept the hospitality if He might bring his companions
with Him. That was not in the Pharisee's plan, fir