The truth shall make you free
IT WAS the 22nd day of the month Ethanim, the month which the Romans called October. Great were the multitudes that thronged the areas for the common people in the temple of Jerusalem. The seven-day feast of the harvest ingathering had just been celebrated, the most joyous event of the year to the people of the nation. Its celebration was a happy expression of the people's conviction that there would be freedom from want for at least the year to come.