Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-05-24
JESUS BETRAYED.
LESSON VIII, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATIONAl SERIES, MAY &c.

Text Of the Lesson, Mark xiv, 43-54-Com.
NIT Verses a. 5O-Golden Text, Luke xii,
4s-Commentary by the Rev. d. NJ.
stearns.
compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by per.
mission of II. s. Hoffman, publisher, Phiadel-
phia.
43. "And Immediately, while He yet
spake." They were in Gethsemane, whittier
Jesus had gone after the supper. Entering
the garden He left eight of the disciples and
took Peter, James and John little farther
with Him then withdrawing Himself little
farther even from them, He kneeled down,
fell on His face and prayed; He prayed earn
estly, He sweat as it were, great drops of
blood falling down to the ground. luke
xxi, 49, He offered up prayers and suppl
cations with strong crying and tears. Heb.
W. Three times He prayed, saying the
same words, returning to the disciples after
each prayer, and each time finding them
asleep When He returned from praying the
third time He added the words of verse 40:
Rise up, let us go 10, he that betrayeth Me
is at hand" and these are the words referred
to in the opening sentence of our lesson.
"Cometh Judas, one of the twelve" 1t
was not the ungodly, irreligous world that
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common people heard Him gladly Mark xii
80; but it was the leading religious people
who were planning His death; it was not
even one of them who betrayed Him, but, in
but in Jesus own words, lone of you," Zone
Of the twelve" (Vs. IS, 20) Was not such
treatment enough to break His hearth Is
there anything like it among His professed
| followers todayf Is there any faint of it in
youl
A. "And he that betrayed Him had given
them token, y" Judas, having re-
ceved band of men and officers from the
chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither
with lanterns and torches and weapons John
xviii, 81, and he had instructed them that the
one whom they would see Him kiss was he
whom they were to take and lead away
safely.
As. "And as soon as he was come, he
goeth straightway to Him, and saith, Master,
Master, and kissed Him" Read before this
verse in John xviii 40, how Jesus went
forth to meet them saying, "Whom seek YEP
and how when He said II am" they all went
backward and fell to the ground and how
He cared for the eleven disciples ere He
yielded Himself to the band who had come to
arrest Him. Then Judas kissed Him; some
one has said, "How coolly deliberate deeply
hypocritical, diabolically malicious. See
what Satan can do and God can suffer-
40. "And they laid their hands on him and
took Him" What unholy hands to lay upon
the Holy One; criminals worthy IL die eternal
death, laying hold upon their judge who was
ready to pardon them; sinners needing sal
walton, laying hold upon the only one who
could save them, that they might put Him
out of the way; man, the creature, laying
hold upon God the creator, because they
hated Him; was there ever such a sight
They took Him. not because they were able
but only because He suffered them.
A. And one of them that stood by drew
n sword, and smote a servant of the high
priest, and cut off his ear" John xviii, 10
says that Simon Peter did it, and that the
servants name was Malchus Luke xxi, 81
says that Jesus touched his ear and healed
him; and Matt. XVI 52-54, says that Jesu:
told the disciples that they that take the
sword perish with the sword. and that if il
was necessary He could ask and receive from
His Father more than legion of angels fol-
each of them, but if thus protected and de
livered how would the Scriptures be fulfilled
As. And Jesus answered and said unto
them, Are ye COME out as against a thief
with swords and with slaves to take me 2
Both Matthew and Luke record the SAINT
how they would feel if the law should send it
officers to arrest their son as thief he being
, innocent Let teachers tell their scholars iii
. they think best how they have felt and actet
when accused of something of which they
knew they were not guilty. If ever we arr
shamefully treated or spoken against, let III
think of Jesus and be patient for His sake.
40. Il was daily with you in the temple
teaching, and We took me not; but the scrip
lures must be fulfilled" Luke xxi, So, adds
This is your hour and the power of dark
ness" Such scriptures were being and abou
to be fulfilled as Psalms xxi and Xix, Isaial
lii, etc. but His comfort as He looked up t,
His Father was: Thou hast known my re
proach, and my shame and my dishonor. Min
adversaries are all before Thee" (Ps. Xix
49, If people would say and do openly tn
mean and devilish things which they say an(
do behind ones back and in the dark, i
, would seem as if we could better refute ant
resist them; but then we would not have tn
/. fellowship with Jesus in His sufferings whicl
we have by being treated as He was. Let u
remember that if we would be His faithful
followers" we must not expect better treat
ment than He received; and that while il
the world we have tribulation, in Him we vii
always have peace. John xvi, 49,
So And they all forsook Him and fed.
| Thus His words came true, and the sheep o
/ the flock were scattered Matt XVI, 81
l Zee. xiii, y; He looked for some to tax
I pity, but there was none and for comforter
a but found none Ps Xix, 20.)
7 81, 81 And there followed Him a certai
,, young man, having linen cloth cast abou
his naked body; -" Because Mark
the only one who records this incident som
think that Mark himself was the young man
that he had been awakened by the passin
/ mob, and hastily throwing a sheet aroun
a him, had followed them, and now venture
l to interpose on behalf of Jesus, or at least 6
I with Him, but the mob laying hold of hin
: he left the linen cloth and fed from theI
:, naked. Peter had said that though he shoul
die with Him, he would not in any wise den
, Him ". 81, but we know how that turne
out, and now Peter with the rest had fol
!, saken Him. This young man seems to |
1 more courageous than all the disciples by TO
/ lowing Jesus in this dark time
: 3d. And they led Jesus away TO the hig
S priest" John xviii, II, says that they boun
= Him and led him away; Isa. lii, :, r. Y
Ac Ion, Z hot icl TO b., 81 btar