"My kingdom is not of this world," said the gentle Nazarene. And when the temptations of evil spread out before him in vision, "all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them," his sharp rebuke to the temptation was, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."
So unlike his generation was he that his motives were misunderstood, and he was stoned and crucified because of them.
In a large sense all who have sincerely followed in his footsteps have met a similar fate.
