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Tue boys of the village liked to talk everlastingly about deliverance of the nation from foreign tyranny. At heart they were all little revolutionists. Their games, like cowboys and Indians of today, were of Zealots and Romans, patriots and tyrants. On street corners, around fires in the field, on the steps of the synagogue, their elders too-peddler, shepherd, everybody-talked of a king who was to come one day and free Israel by force of arms. But Jesus showed scant interest in the boys' games of revolution though He heard every day about the crimes of government.
And indeed the years of His childhood were no improvement for Israel over the sway of the late King Herod. The acute misery of the people brought about a rebellion in Galilee when Jesus was eleven years old.