fire, as the husbandman casts out the chaff to be consumed, because it is good for nothing.

Soon after John began to preach and baptize, JESUS came from Galilee* to be baptized by him; but John said unto JESUS, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? JESUS said, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then John baptized

him.

When JESUS went up out of the water, the heavens were opened, and he saw the SPIRIT of GOD descending and lighting upon him; and there

* G, H, I, J.

came a voice from Heaven, saying, This is my BELOVED SON, in whom I am well pleased. From that time, John bare witness to JESUS, saying, This is HE of whom I spake, whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. He is the Son of GOD.

Our SAVIOUR in the Wilderness, Angels ministering unto him.

AND JESUS being full of the Holy SPIRIT, returned from Jordan, and knowing it was the will of his Heavenly FATHER that he should be tempted

of the Devil, he went into the wilderness, and when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards an hungred. And the Devil came unto him, and promised that he would give him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, if he would fall down and worship him, hoping by his temptations, to persuade JESUS to commit sin, that he might prevent his being the SAVIOUR of Mankind. But JESUS despised all the pomps and vanities of the world; he looked for that Heavenly Kingdom which was provided for mankind, and over which he was to reign for ever; and he resolved to endure all sorrows, and even to suffer death upon the

cross, rather than forfeit that kingdom, and hinder mankind of the happiness and glory he was to purchase for them. JESUS, therefore, said to the Tempter, Get thee behind me, Satan ; it is written thou shalt worship the LORD thy GOD, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the Devil left him, and Angels came and ministered to him, or attended on him, as the SON of GOD.

Soon after this, Andrew, and Simon his brother (who was afterwards called Simon Peter), Philip and Nathaniel, came to JESUS to be his disciples or scholars, that they might learn his doctrine, and know how to gain a place in the kingdom of Heaven.