352           JESUS OF NAZARETH
gether, let not man put asunder. Ye say that for forni-
cation, at least, a man may put away his wife; but I say
unto you, for no cause whatever may a man put away his
wife. The sin of fornication may be as much in the heart
as in the act. What man of you hath not looked upon a
woman, not your wife, to lust after her! Shall your wife
divorce you, therefore By your own words be ye judged,
What is hateful to thee, that do not to another. Love and
cherish the wife of thy youth, and let that relic of bar-
barism, divorce, be blotted out forever." 
   There were further question and answer on these lines,
 and these Rabbis and rich men of Bethshan, simpler and
 less hurt in worldly ambitions by the revolutionary teach-
 ing of Jesus than their brethren of Jerusalem, went silently
 away,-not, indeed, convinced and converted, but deeply
 impressed. They came to scoff: they went away to think,
 - some of them to pray.
   When the rich men had gone, the multitude, growing
gradually bolder, began to press around; and an old man,
leaning upon a staff, who appeared to be a sort of Patri-
arch among them, pushed to the front and asked Jesus if,
indeed, there was to be a new Kingdom set up in Israel.
He had heard, he said, that Jesus was teaching that.
   " There is," Jesus answered, " a new Kingdom to be set
up in Israel and upon earth; but as John and all the
prophets have taught, the new Kingdom must first come
in the hearts of men. It is the Kingdom of Kindness and
Brotherly Love. The same is the Kingdom of God, and
this Kingdom must be within you, first. Be good to one
another; love your neighbor as yourself. When all men
so do then will the King Messiah appear in the clouds, and
all the holy angels with him, and then will there be a new
Earth."
 That the doctrine of divorce as set forth in Matthew is a forged
addition to the original text has been conclusively proved. Consult
"My Religion," by Tolstoi, Chap. vi; also, " Jesus of Nazara,"
by Keim.