Monday in Jerusalem

173:0.1Early on this Mon­day morn­ing, by pre­ar­range­ment, Je­sus and the apos­tles as­sem­bled at the home of Si­mon in Beth­any, and af­ter a brief con­fer­ence they set out for Je­ru­sa­lem. The twelve were strangely silent as they jour­neyed on to­ward the tem­ple; they had not re­cov­ered from the ex­pe­ri­ence of the pre­ced­ing day. They were ex­pec­tant, fear­ful, and pro­foundly af­fected by a cer­tain feel­ing of de­tach­ment grow­ing out of the Mas­ter’s sud­den change of tac­tics, cou­pled with his in­struc­tion that they were to en­gage in no pub­lic teach­ing through­out this Pass­over week.

173:0.2As this group jour­neyed down Mount Oli­vet, Je­sus led the way, the apos­tles fol­low­ing closely be­hind in med­i­ta­tive si­lence. There was just one thought up­per­most in the minds of all save Ju­das Is­car­iot, and that was: What will the Mas­ter do to­day? The one ab­sorb­ing thought of Ju­das was: What shall I do? Shall I go on with Je­sus and my as­so­ciates, or shall I with­draw? And if I am go­ing to quit, how shall I break off?

173:0.3It was about nine o’clock on this beau­ti­ful morn­ing when these men ar­rived at the tem­ple. They went at once to the large court where Je­sus so of­ten taught, and af­ter greet­ing the be­liev­ers who were await­ing him, Je­sus mounted one of the teach­ing plat­forms and be­gan to ad­dress the gath­er­ing crowd. The apos­tles with­drew for a short dis­tance and awaited de­vel­op­ments.