preaching to the multitudes; and He changes His centre of activity from Judea to the less dangerous neighbourhood of Galilee. These disciples were Jews racially, but in allying themselves with Jesus they had practically broken with the national leaders. The antagonism between the national leaders and Jesus was sharply drawn that baptism day in the Jordan, when John the Herald’s witnessing to Him was received with such silence by the Jerusalem deputation.1 It grew more sharply and bitterly marked