CHAPTER XI.

THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM.

When it was time for Him to end His work on earth, Jesus started for
Jerusalem. The people in Jerusalem heard that He was coming, and
crowds of them poured out of Jerusalem to meet Him. They carried
boughs of palm trees in their hands, and waved them, and cried,
'HOSANNA! BLESSED BE THE KING THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!
PEACE IN HEAVEN, AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST.'

Presently Jesus came to a part of the Mount of Olives where He could
see Jerusalem and the Temple straight before Him; and as He looked at
them, He wept aloud. He wept because they loved their sins, and hated
their Saviour. He wept because He knew that God would have to punish
them. He knew that in a very few years the Romans would come and fight
against Jerusalem, and burn down that Temple, and kill thousands of the
Jews, or carry them away as slaves. Were not these things enough to
make the Lord Jesus weep?

[Illustration: Mount of Olives and Jerusalem.]

The blind and the lame came to Jesus in the Temple, and He made them
well; and when the little children cried, 'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF
DAVID,' He was pleased to hear their song. But the priests were very
angry. 'Hosanna to the Son of David' means 'Save us, Jesus, our King.'