Yehoshua Nazir; Jesus the Nazarite; Life of Christ Paperback - 2011

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. There was a great commotion in the Temple at the time the soldiers emerged from their hiding places, and men and women, not knowing the real cause of the trouble, rushed in a frenzy for a place of safety. The combat between the soldiers and those who attempted to protect their little ones from harm lasted but a short time, but the result was terrible and fatal to many innocent children, and much blood was shed before the Temple gate. Father Eliye, who suspected a surprise upon Zacharias, arrived too late to save the venerable priest, but appeared upon the scene just in time to save little Yeouan from the fate planned for him by the jealousy of priestcraft. In their excitement and determination to carry out the bidding of the priests, the soldiers cut right and left and ran in every direction in pursuit of the holy child of Zacharias, tearing children from the arms of their parents or guardians in the hope of securing the object of their search. They were instructed to kill every child present, if needs be, to make sure that the one sought had been destroyed. King Herod was rather surprised at the unexpected turn of affairs, and the assassination of Zacharias was very unwelcome as it was thru him Herod hoped Father Eliye would discover valuable information of the new movement which seemed to threaten the safety of his throne. Because soldiers engaged in the bloody fray at the Temple, public sentiment was eagerly directed against Herod and he was held responsible for the lives of the children murdered in cold blood. Steps taken by the government for an investigation proved the affair rather complicated, and to avoid further trouble it was thot best to drop all proceedings, thus leaving the minds of the people more or less in the dark. Great excitement o...