the exhibition of benefits, and the enforcement of claims. He first gathered around Him a nucleus of disciples. Some of these had been called in the earlier Judæan ministry, which Matthew does not record. They were now called to abandon their fishing in order to be with Him. After a period of teaching in the synagogues of Galilee, He gathered these disciples, and gave to them His manifesto, in which He first insisted upon the supreme importance of character in His Kingdom; and declared its purpose