“I feared to do so; but when our companions return, we shall learn more of the glad tidings he is said to bring.”
“Let us follow,” said Sadoc to his friend, “lest these men return not again.”
One who was a Nazarene offered to join them, as he also sought the Prophet. He had heard him in the synagogue at Nazareth two sabbath-days before. He now related how this Prophet had read and applied to himself the saying, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath appointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind; to preach the acceptable year of the Lord." The Nazarene told how this promise appeared to be fulfilled by the works of wonder and of love now daily witnessed in those parts which saw this great and long-promised light. He described the contempt with which the Mighty One was regarded in Nazareth, because he had dwelt there in a humble station while following an ordinary occupation. “They remember not,” he continued, “that David was once but a stripling who tended his fa-
