The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-06-08
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lessss - the snsessssie = nj series fos
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u And kln- Ierod heard of Him Qcr
Ills name Was spread abroad. and he
said. That John the baptist was risen
from the dead. and therefore mighty
works DO show forth themselves in him
L. oshers said: That IL Is Eshas- And
Others said: That II IL q prophet. % ~ one
l OF the prophets
IA Hut when Heroa heard thereof. he
/ said. IL Is John. wh0fn l beheadsd. nc Is
risen from the dead
Il. For Herod himself had sent forth
and Laid hold upon John- ana bound
| him tn prison for Herosiias' sake. his
brother Philips wife. for he had married
her.
IL For John had said unto Hcroi. II Is
not lawful for thee To have thy brother .
wife
-. Therefore Herodias had a quarrel
against him. and would have killed him.
but she could not:
- For Herri feared John knowing that
he Vas a tusr man and an holy. and OBJ
served him. and when he heard him. he
did many things. and heard him gladly.
4 And when a convenient day was
come. that IferOt on his birthday made a
supper 20 his lords. high captains and
chief estates Of Galiiee.
- And when the daughter 81 the said
Herotias came in and danced and
pleased Herod and them that sat with
him. the king said unto the damsel: Ask
OF me Whatsoever thou wilt. and Will
| give ~ thee
a And he s~are unto her. Whatsoever
thou shalt ask o. nae. will give AZ thee.
unto the haif OF my kingdom
"a And she went forth. and said unto
her mother. What shall ask And she
said. The head OF John the Baptist
s And she came IL straightway with
haste unto the king. and asked. saying
will that thou give ne by and b. IL a
I charger the bead OF John the Baptis;
~ And the king was exceeding sorry
yet for his oaths sake. and for their
sakcs which sat with him. he could not
reject her.
=. And Immediately the king sent an ex-
ecutsor.r. and commanded his head 10 -
brought: and .-e ~enr and beheadet hir'
In the prison
y And brought his head in q
charger and gave IL 20 the tamsei. aid
/ the danssei gave II 10 her mother
4 - And when his disciples heard y H.
they came and took UP his corpse. and
laid IL in a tomb
GOLDEN TEXT--Bc not drunk with
wine. wherein Is excess. but te a.ied with
the S2ir;r-Eph- s-l>
NOTES AND COMMENTS
| Herod Antipas. son OF Heroc the
I Great. was the Roman ruler over Cali
I lee and Perca with the title of king. IL
was IN this very territory that Jesus
had been doing His greatest work HIS
words and works came TO the cars OF
HeroG. and -o-t.y's lesson comes in as
1 the result o. the reflections Of the
wicked king What lie had said must
have been court gossip. and so filtered
down 10 the peopi. generally. We can
then make this lesson a study of the
character OF Herod and OF his relations
with The brave prophet. John the Zap
tis'. noting especially:
Hero.f's Troubled Conscience
Heru-l's Character
Herod's Crime.
Herod's Troubled Conscience. :
4 There never yet has been guilty con
science but that X has been manifested
in some outward word or act Herod
had committed great and dreadful
crime. and IL torments him when one
might think his thoughts were furthest
from il. The wonderful works that
Jesus has been doing during the ar-
rulnn Of A. ID . and the following win
ter are related TO him. Nothing had
been said about John. vet the guilty
mind of the king Immediately aSsoci-
aied The two great and good men i,
might seem and probably was the fact.
that good men were generally dis
counted az that court. Here were two
who rose far above the average One
had rebuked the king. been imprisoned
and murdered. another arises. say~
nothing about the king simply going
I -. Al ~. - - l..
kingdom ard doing good. While the
works o. Jesus were being told Hcrod
reviews hi~ great crime.
Her0d's Charac-sr-This incident
reveals the kind If man Herrd was
BAD associations was one Of his fail.
irgs. Then lie had been guilty ~ break
ing one 81 the laws oF tho decalo-us in
taking 10 himself hi brothers wife.
John had said this was not Law sul. and
che kings irfelii-g ice Lad not been
hunted % far As to deny il; Euf he
could stand ont against his wife far
enough 70 save the lie ~ John from
her hands. This however. was rot
strength % mind. but the reverse prob
ably superstition al least akin 20 thar
was his fear 81 killing "A jus; man and
an holy Bot this dread Of conse-
qucn~cs was not 20 strong as one other
characteristic % Hcrod'S nature. He
could not stand the scorr % his com
ranivrs. II was -sor his oafh-~ sake
and for their sake< which sat Wit h him
That John Wa finally b-headesi. and
we NAV we'll suppose that il was not 81
much for the oath's sake as for fear Of
fhe srorn ~ those with him. If IL had
been solely for bis oath'S sake. he would
probably ha~e lct bis first refusal 10
bchcad John stand
He-od's Crime Hcrod'S crime was
fhe beheadin- Of John the Baptist.
John was Imprisoned in Nache-ns. /,
strong fortress and castle on the Dor
ders ~ Arabia. nine miles EAST Of the
northern end ~ the Dead sea. in March
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