27 The time is near when you will plead against them in the courts; will spurn them on the streets; will cast them into prison cells, and kill them with a fiend’s delight.
28 I tell you, men, the blood of all the holy men of God that has been shed from righteous Abel down to that of Zacharias, father of the holy John,
29 Who was struck down beside the altar in the Holy Place--
30 The blood of all these holy men has made more red the hands of this ungodly generation.
31 Woe unto you, you masters of the law! you snatch the keys of knowledge from the hands of men;
32 You close the doors; you enter not yourselves, and suffer not the willing ones to enter in.
33 His words provoked the Pharisees, the lawyers and the scribes, and they, resenting, poured upon him torrents of abuse.
34 The truths he spoke came like a thunderbolt from heaven; the rulers counseled how they might ensnare him by his words; they sought a legal way to shed his blood.
_The Christines go to a place apart to pray. Jesus warns them against the leaven of the Pharisees and reveals the fact that all thoughts and deeds are recorded in God’s Book of Remembrance. Man’s responsibility and God’s care._
Now, when the feast was finished Jesus with the foreign masters and the twelve, with Mary, Miriam and a band of loyal women who believed in Christ, went to a place apart to pray.
2 And when their silence ended Jesus said, Be on your guard; the leaven of the Pharisees is being thrown in every measure of the meal of life.
3 It is a poison that will taint whatever it may touch; and it will blight the soul as sure as fumes of the Diabolos; it is hypocrisy.
4 The Pharisees seem fair in speech, but they are diabolical in heart.
5 And then they seem to think that thought is something they can lock within themselves.
6 They do not seem to know that every thought and wish is photographed and then preserved within the Book of Life to be revealed at any time the masters will.
7 That which is thought, or wished, or done in darkest night shall be proclaimed in brightest day;
8 That which is whispered in the ear within the secret place shall be made known upon the streets.
9 And in the judgment day when all the books are opened up, these men, and every other man, shall be a-judged, not by what they’ve said or done,