XXV.

The Feast of Cabernacles.

After the Transfiguration, the disciples naturally inquired of our Lord, "Why then say the Scribes that Elias must first come?" Jesus answered that Elias had indeed come, "but they knew him not, and have done unto him. whatsoever they listed." "Likewise," he added, "shall also the Son of Man suffer of them." Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. And he continued to converse with them of the sufferings which were before him, and that according to the prophecies, he should be set at nought.

As they came down from the mountain they met a demoniac, whom the other disciples, through deficiency in faith, had not been able to relieve. They had also, in the absence of their Lord, been called to contend with the evil spirit of the Scribes and Pharisees, for he found the Scribes questioning with them. The multitude, when they saw Jesus, turned from the debate to welcome him. It is written they were greatly amazed. This may have been at his unexpected appearance, or perhaps, as Moses came down from Sinai with a glorious countenance, the light that shone as the sun upon the features of the Redeemer, still