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CHRIST is CRUCIFIED.
LESSON X, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, DEC. 6.
Text of the Lesson, John xix. 17-3O-Com-
nit Verses, ss-3o-Goiden Text, ! Pet.
III, 1S-Commentary by the Rev. ID. NJ.

Stcarns.
compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission of II. s. Hoffman, publisher, Phil
adelphia.l
II. "And He, bearing His cross, went
forth into place called the place of n
skull, which Is called in the Hebrew, Col
gotha"
The other gospels tell us of one Simon, a
Cyrenian, who was compelled to bear the
cross, but it is evident from this account
that Jesus started for the place of cruel
nxiun carrying it Himself.
IS. Where they cruciled Him, and two
Others with Him, on either side one and
Jesus in the midst"
Consider well the meaning of the words
"rhey crucifcd Him." make it all as real
10 your mind as ii you saw it, see the nails
driven through His quivering flesh into the
wood, note the intense pain, and yet you
cannot realize II 1.-THE of it. People now
rejoice to have found what they consider
painless way Of executing criminals by
electricity-what n contrast to the awful
cruelty Of crucixion.
10 And PLATE wrote 4 title and put 1t
on the cross. And the writing was, Jesus
of Nazareth the King OF the Jews"
plate once asked Jesus, "What is
truthW (&vlii, 3Sl hut whether Intention
ally or not Inc wrote the truth when he
wrote this title.
90. "rhis title then read many of the
Jews; for the place where Jesus was cruel
fled was nigh to the city; and it was writ
ten in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin"
These three languages represented the
whole known world. and thus it was indi-
Gated that the fact that this crucified one
was the king of the Jews was also a mat
ter of interest to the whole world
81. "Thcn said the chief priests Of the
Jews to PLATE Write not, The King of the
Jews but that he said. l am King of the
Jews"
o. "Plate answered, What have writ
ten have written"
% Then the soldiers, when they had
crucied Jesus, took His garments and
made four parts, to every soldier part
and also His coat; now the coat was with
out seam, woven from the top through
out"
"a "They said therefore among them.
selves Let us not rend it, but cast lots for
it whose it shall be; that the Scripture
might be fulfilled which saith, They parted
My raimcut among them, and for My
vesturc they did cast lots These things
therefore the soldiers did"
See this prophecy IN Ps. XIII IS; remem-
Der that 1t was written apout i,oO' years
before us tulililmcn,' ana 20" uo"n ana
humoiy worship Gou' 10 "HoiH All 'n'nss
are known from the iounaa'ioh OF the
world tActs XIV, leE WHO occi'reS 'he emu
from the neGiAhih&' ana from ancleht
tirhes Tue tninH7 '"st are n"1 9e. c"iie \iS"'
XVII lo). Observe also now literally the
prophecy was fulhlIcn' even TO one piece OF
IL. l,.,r ,uf II,L. hpr
his clothing, Tor whicn thc! c'SI io'S' theu
see in rs xxi, 70, ~ now tne same person
SOIL treated shaii yet De the ruler OF al
nations, ana all the WoG4u snHil Worsh' !
Him. Expect as literal iulliiillehc OF al
this
% Vow there STOOD by the cross oil
Jesus Ills mother, ana ms lnothers SISTER
/ Mary the wife OF CIeophaS' ana Mary Mag
dalene
Let us, rs lar as possible, take IN thl'
awful scene. see the TWO maleiactorS VINO
were crucilled with INN, one on eIlher siu'
ana Jesus III tne MIDST verse I9' see 'H'
people passing by W"gSlnG thelr h'aaS anl
railing on Him; see the chiei priests mock
iDQ hi and saving, II 4et the KIM OF ISrde