A QUESTION CONCERNING DIVORCE. The journey to Judea: AND HE AROSE FROM THENCE, AND COMETH INTO THE COASTS OF JUDEA BY THE FARTHER SIDE OF JORDAN; AND THE PEOPLE RESORT UNTO HIM AGAIN; AND, AS HE WAS WONT, HE TAUGHT THEM AGAIN. Jesus now, definitely and finally, left Galilee. He went out from Caper... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PHARISEES CAME TO HIM AND ASKED HIM, IS IT LAWFUL FOR A MAN TO PUT AWAY HIS WIFE? TEMPTING HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Pharisees tempt Christ with a question:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT DID MOSES COMMAND YOU?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SAID, MOSES SUFFERED TO WRITE A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT AND TO PUT HER AWAY. The Pharisees were still dogging Christ's footsteps. As soon as a multitude gathered about Christ, they felt it their duty, in the interest of the Jewish Church, to interfere, and to keep Him from teaching the people.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, FOR THE HARDNESS OF YOUR HEART HE WROTE YOU THIS PRECEPT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The answer of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION GOD MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS CAUSE SHALL A MAN LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY TWAIN SHALL BE ONE FLESH; SO, THEN, THEY ARE NO MORE TWAIN, BUT ONE FLESH.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT THEREFORE GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER. Jesus was well acquainted with this bit of Mosaic legislation, and He also knew the reasons for the adoption of this precept in the Jewish law. The form of government in the Jewish nation during the first centuries of its national exis... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE HOUSE HIS DISCIPLES ASKED HIM AGAIN OF THE SAME MATTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
An additional explanation to the disciples:... [ Continue Reading ]
And He saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.... [ Continue Reading ]
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. The disciples were still deeply imbued with the teaching of the scribes, of the rabbis, which they had heard from their youth. The statements of Christ differed so plainly from the customs with which they... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BROUGHT YOUNG CHILDREN TO HIM THAT HE SHOULD TOUCH THEM. AND HIS DISCIPLES REBUKED THOSE THAT BROUGHT THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS BLESSES LITTLE CHILDREN. Mark 10:13... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN JESUS SAW IT, HE WAS MUCH DISPLEASED AND SAID UNTO THEM, SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME, AND FORBID THEM NOT; FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER SHALL NOT RECEIVE THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS A LITTLE CHILD, HE SHALL NOT ENTER THEREIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TOOK THEM UP IN HIS ARMS, PUT HIS HANDS UPON THEM, AND BLESSED THEM. It was while Jesus was still on His way to Judea, and while He was making the journey by easy stages, that one of the most appealing incidents in His entire ministry occurred. He had probably sat down in some village to rest... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS GONE FORTH INTO THE WAY, THERE CAME ONE RUNNING, AND KNEELED TO HIM, AND ASKED HIM, GOOD MASTER, WHAT SHALL I DO THAT I MAY INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE?... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RICH YOUNG MAN. The question of obtaining eternal life:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, WHY CALLEST THOU ME GOOD? THERE IS NONE GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU KNOWEST THE COMMANDMENTS, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT KILL, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESSS, DEFRAUD NOT, HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, MASTER, ALL THESE HAVE I OBSERVED FROM MY YOUTH. After the incident with the young children, Jesus continued His journey, He went out and forward on His way. The inevitableness of the Passion and the end of Christ's life is always indicated in the gospels. Here one... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN JESUS, BEHOLDING HIM, LOVED HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ONE THING THOU LACKEST: GO THY WAY, SELL WHATSOEVER THOU HAST, AND GIVE TO THE POOR, AND THOU SHALT HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN; AND COME, TAKE UP THE CROSS, AND FOLLOW ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The decision:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WAS SAD AT THAT SAYING AND WENT AWAY GRIEVED; FOR HE HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS. In spite of the young man's foolish answer, Jesus looked upon him earnestly, affectionately, He regarded him lovingly. He loved him, not only on account of his youth, his earnestness, and his evident sincerity, but be... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS LOOKED ROUND ABOUT AND SAITH UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, HOW HARDLY SHALL THEY THAT HAVE RICHES ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!... [ Continue Reading ]
The lesson of riches:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DISCIPLES WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS WORDS. BUT JESUS ANSWERETH AGAIN AND SAITH UNTO THEM, CHILDREN, HOW HARD IS IT FOR THEM THAT TRUST IN RICHES TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. Jesus looked round in the circle of the disciples to see what kind of an impression the incident had made on them. Then He said, very impressively, that those possessing riches would only... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus explains:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED OUT OF MEASURE, SAYING AMONG THEMSELVES, WHO, THEN, CAN BE SAVED?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS LOOKING UPON THEM SAITH, WITH MEN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT NOT WITH GOD; FOR WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. The disciples, by this time, were almost gasping with perturbation, with very excessive astonishment, saying one to another: Why, who, in that case, can be saved? It was the stronge... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PETER BEGAN TO SAY UNTO HIM, LO, WE HAVE LEFT ALL, AND HAVE FOLLOWED THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The reward of the followers of Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THERE IS NO MAN THAT HATH LEFT HOUSE, OR BRETHREN, OR SISTERS, OR FATHER, OR MOTHER, OR WIFE, OR CHILDREN, OR LANDS FOR MY SAKE AND THE GOSPEL'S... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE SHALL RECEIVE AN HUNDREDFOLD, NOW IN THIS TIME, HOUSES, AND BRETHREN, AND SISTERS, AND MOTHERS, AND CHILDREN, AND LANDS, WITH PERSECUTIONS, AND IN THE WORLD TO COME ETERNAL LIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT MANY THAT ARE FIRST SHALL BE LAST; AND THE LAST, FIRST. The incident they had just witnessed set the disciples to thinking. And Peter, always forward, whose heart had by no means been fully weaned from the things of this world, proposed a question, probably in the name of all the disciples. With... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE IN THE WAY GOING UP TO JERUSALEM; AND JESUS WENT BEFORE THEM; AND THEY WERE AMAZED; AND AS THEY FOLLOWED, THEY WERE AFRAID. AND HE TOOK AGAIN THE TWELVE, AND BEGAN TO TELL THEM WHAT THINGS SHOULD HAPPEN UNTO HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
in Christ's Kingdom. Third foretelling of the Passion:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, BEHOLD, WE GO UP TO JERUSALEM, AND THE SON OF MAN SHALL BE DELIVERED UNTO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND UNTO THE SCRIBES; AND THEY SHALL CONDEMN HIM TO DEATH, AND SHALL DELIVER HIM TO THE GENTILES;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SHALL MOCK HIM, AND SHALL SCOURGE HIM, AND SHALL SPIT UPON HIM, AND SHALL KILL HIM; AND THE THIRD DAY HE SHALL RISE AGAIN. The nearer they came to Jerusalem, the more clearly the object of Christ's journey was brought out by His bearing and by His words. They had spent some time in their jo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JAMES AND JOHN, THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE, COME UNTO HIM, SAYING, MASTER, WE WOULD THAT THOU SHOULDEST DO FOR US WHATSOEVER WE SHALL DESIRE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The request of Zebedee's children:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT WOULD YE THAT I SHOULD DO FOR YOU?... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SAID UNTO HIM, GRANT UNTO US THAT WE MAY SIT, ONE ON THY RIGHT HAND, AND THE OTHER ON THY LEFT HAND, IN THY GLORY. Jesus had, just before leaving Capernaum, given the apostles a lesson in humility, and tried to impress upon them the chief consideration in the kingdom of God, that of unselfish s... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, YE KNOW NOT WHAT YE ASK; CAN YE DRINK OF THE CUP THAT I DRINK OF? AND BE BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM THAT I AM BAPTIZED WITH?... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's gentle reprimand:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WE CAN. AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, YE SHALL INDEED DRINK OF THE CUP THAT I DRINK OF; AND WITH THE BAPTISM THAT I AM BAPTIZED WITHAL SHALL YE BE BAPTIZED;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT TO SIT ON MY RIGHT HAND AND ON MY LEFT HAND IS NOT MINE TO GIVE, BUT IT SHALL BE GIVEN TO THEM FOR WHOM IT IS PREPARED. Jesus here shows a little of the wealth of kind consideration which He is always ready to give to those that sin from weakness. "He deals with them in the most gentle manner, d... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE TEN HEARD IT, THEY BEGAN TO BE MUCH DISPLEASED WITH JAMES AND JOHN.... [ Continue Reading ]
Another lesson in humility:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS CALLED THEM TO HIM, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, YE KNOW THAT THEY WHICH ARE ACCOUNTED TO RULE OVER THE GENTILES EXERCISE LORDSHIP OVER THEM; AND THEIR GREAT ONES EXERCISE AUTHORITY UPON THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT SO SHALL IT NOT BE AMONG YOU; BUT WHOSOEVER WILL BE GREAT AMONG YOU SHALL BE YOUR MINISTER;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHOSOEVER OF YOU WILL BE THE CHIEFEST SHALL BE SERVANT OF ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVEN THE SON OF MAN CAME NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO, BUT TO MINISTER, AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE A RANSOM FOR MANY. The other ten apostles had witnessed the entire incident with jealous apprehension and growing indignation. Not that they did not have the. same aspirations, but that others had voiced th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CAME TO JERICHO; AND AS HE WENT OUT OF JERICHO WITH HIS DISCIPLES AND A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE, BLIND BARTIMAEUS, THE SON OF TIMAEUS, SAT BY THE HIGHWAYSIDE BEGGING.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEALING OF BARTIMAEUS. At Jericho:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HEARD THAT IT WAS JESUS OF NAZARETH, HE BEGAN TO CRY OUT AND SAY, JESUS, THOU SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY CHARGED HIM THAT HE SHOULD HOLD HIS PEACE; BUT HE CRIED THE MORE A GREAT DEAL, THOU SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON ME. Mark here relates the healing of the blind man on the way out of Jericho. Luke tells the healing of one before they entered the city, Luke 18:35. And Matthew takes both miracl... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS STOOD STILL, AND COMMANDED HIM TO BE CALLED. AND THEY CALL THE BLIND MAN, SAYING UNTO HIM, BE OF GOOD COMFORT, RISE; HE CALLETH THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The healing:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE, CASTING AWAY HIS GARMENT, ROSE, AND CAME TO JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHAT WILT THOU THAT I SHOULD DO UNTO THEE? THE BLIND MAN SAID UNTO HIM, LORD, THAT I MIGHT RECEIVE MY SIGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, GO THY WAY; THY FAITH HATH MADE THEE WHOLE. AND IMMEDIATELY HE RECEIVED HIS SIGHT, AND FOLLOWED JESUS IN THE WAY. Jesus was now satisfied as to the man's sincerity and faith. As soon as He expressed the wish to see the blind man, there was a marked change in the attitude of... [ Continue Reading ]