I must be in my Father's house?"

And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.


THE EIGHTEEN SILENT YEARS.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject
unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and
men.




=THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS MINISTRY=

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JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST


THE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius
Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,
and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituræa and
Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, in the high-priesthood
of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came unto John the son of