Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-08-31
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON K, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
RATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. 2.

II, IO-Commentary by the Rev. ID. NJ.
Stearns.
10. And the Jews passover was ut
band, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem"
After the miracle at Cana, He, with His
mother and brethren and disciples, spent
llmc days at Capcrnaum (vcrsc l2), but we
lave no further record of that visit. This
IS, as far as we know, His second visit to
Jerusalem, and the first SINCE at the age
Of II, He went up with Joseph and Mary
TO the passover (Luke ii, Al, 42). In view
of the fact that His brethren did not be-
lieve in Him (John vii, 81 we wonder that
they went to Capcrnnum with Him. 1t is
not likely that they went to Jerusalem.
The proper name of this feast was The
Lords Passover" (EX xii, 1I, but like
other fcasts had dcgeneratcd into mere
fcasts of the jews (John V, y.
H. And found in the temple those that
sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the
changers of money sitting" So He found
it again ut the close of His ministry (Nlath.
xxi, 12). According to the law, the peu
pie were to bring to the Lord to Jerusalem
the 1.-THE of corn, wine, oil and the first
lings of herds and flocks, but if they were
living too far from Jerusalem to do this
they were permitted to turn the tithcs into
money and purchase mt Jerusalem what
they wanted (Dout. xiv, 22-26). This ar
rangcment however, did not necessitate
making a market of the temple.
IS. And when He had made a scourge
of small cords He drove them all out of
the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen,
md poured out the changers money and
overthrow the tables" If He were today
to drive thus out of an ordinary place of
worship on His holy day all in whose
hearts He sees business or pleasure instead
of thoughts of Himself, what n thinning
out of many a congregation there would
bel
16. And said unto them that sold
doves, Take these things hence; make not
my Fathers house an house of mcrchan-
disc" When He again cleansed the tenn
pie at the close Of His ministry, He told
them that instead of its being house Of
prayer, as God intended, they had made it
den Of thieves (Alath. xxi, 49, At the
age of IL Jesus had said in this very tenn
pie that He must be about His Fathers
business (Lukc H. 40 or Or W in His
Fathers house and now one of the first
acts of His public ministry is to cleanse
that house
II And His disciples remembered that
it was written, the zeal of Thine house hath
eaten me up" This is written in that
psalm QXiX)so full of His sutfcrings, which,
if we laid to heart more, we would be
moro full of zeal for His house, His church,
instead of possessing so much misguided
and wasted zeal for our own houses or
churches or societies.
Is. Then answered the Jews and said
unto Him, What sign showcst thou unto
us, seeing that thou doCst these thingsY'
a similar question is asked in John vi, 30,
and Math. xii IS, and in the latter place
Jesus told them that the sign would be
the typical death and resurrection of
Jonah illustrated in His own case, and
now He will tell them the same thing I'M
der another figure Death and resurrection
is the great secret of power on earth for
God
10 Jesus answered and said unto
them, Destroy this temple, and in three
days ! will raise it up. This is the car
lest intimation from His own lips of His
death and resurrection He was the anti
type of tabernacle and temple, building,
erected that God might dwell on earth
among men, and in Him God was mani
fest in the flesh 1t is interesting to no
tice that the temple of Solomon was plum
dcred by Shishak in the thirty fourth ycal
ii Chron. xii, ,, 9.
20. 'Then said the Jews, Forty and siN
years was this temple in building, and
wilt thou rear it up in three days." Be
ing only natural men, they understood
nothing of spiritual things Il Cor. ii, ~
81. But He spake of the temple of His
body" See how they perverted His words
and flung them at Him in His agony OF
the cross Mark xiv, 5S, and XIV, 29). l.
we have become temples of the Holy Spirit
jim whom Father Son and Spirit have
come to dwell Il Cor vi, 10, 20; John xiv
II, 23), we must not think it strange t.
have our words perverted and thrown a
us in our trials This is fellowship witt
Christ which should make us greatly re
joice
%. "When therefore He was risen from
I the dead His disciples remembered that HI
/ had said this unto them, and they believed
the Scripture, and the word which Jesu
had said" The whole of this gospel Wa
:; written with the special object of proving
= that Jesus is the Son of God (chapter Xxx
n 81, and as it was by the resurrection tina
> He was with power declared to be the Sol
I, of God (Rom. j. A. this may account f.
o its early mention and emphasis in this gos
e pei. 1t is only when we are risen from tn
: it shall fully appear that we are sons q
: God q John iii, p.
T. 23 " Now when He was in Jerusalem a
e the passover, in the feast day, many be
l. lieved in His name when they saw tn
miracles which He did " This is the grca
gospel of believing. 1t is found more time
in this gospel than in the other three an
p in the Acts all put together. The tru
meaning of believing is seen in chapter
l., to be the receiving of Him as our owl
Saviour To believe about Him is of n
avail unless we become fully identiflo
with Him in His death and resurrection
one with Him at Gods right hand and on
, with Him in present service here
"a. But Jesus did not commit himsel
unto them, because He knew all men.
. The word commit is the same wor
which is translated believe" in the pr,
codng verse. The r. V. has it trust.
Jesus, knowing all men, knew whom II
could trust or believe and was never d,
ceivcd in any, He treated them upon thei
profession as if they meant all they sal
ind gave them every possible opportunit
md help to prove themselves sincere, bu