Convincing evidence
Jesus' last proof was the highest, the most convincing,
the most profitable to his students. The malignity of
brutal persecutors, the treason and suicide of
his betrayer, were overruled by divine Love to
the glorification of the man and of the true idea of God,
which Jesus' persecutors had mocked and tried to slay.
The final demonstration of the truth which Jesus taught,
and for which he was crucified, opened a new era for the
world. Those who slew him to stay his influence perpetu-
ated and extended it.