The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-04-01
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
lesson in the international Series for
April 3, l904-Jesus Visits
Tyre and Sidon.
THE LESSON TEXT
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/ nnn know a.. but he could not be hid
- For a certain woman. wise young
daughter had an unc.san spirit heard or
Him ana came ard fe. al IL Sfeet
q The woman WAS a Greek. Syrophe-
nleian hy nation ana she hesought Him
/ that lie would cast forth tho devil cat Of
! her daughter
- Eut Jesus said unto her. let he chill
dr,n trst Dye hl.ed; for ID Is not meet 10 take
| ne children's bread. and 20 cast j unto the
dogs.
/ - And She answered and said unto Him;
fes. Lord Set the doss under the table eat
o. the chlidren's crumbs
= And he said unto herr For his saying
g ms way, the devil! Is gone out Of Thy
daughter.
80 And when she Was come TO her house
sic found the deyll gone out and
| hcr daughter laid upon the bed.
~ And again. departing from The coasts
OF Tyre and sidcn H. came unto the sea OF
Gali!ce, through the midst OF the coasts OF
Il eapois.
81. Ana they brlng unto Him ona that was
| deaf and had an lmpediment in his speech,
and they beseech Him Q put HIS hand upon
him.
30 And re took him aside from the multi
tude. and put His fingers into his ears. and
Ee spit and touched his tongue;
81 And looking up 70 Heayen. He sighed.
and saith unto him. Ephphatha, that Is be
opened.
s. And stra ghtway his ears were opened.
and the string Of his tongue was l0osed.
and he spaks plain.
50 And HochargeG them that they shold
should tell no man, but the more He
charged them. 50 much the more great
deal they published H..
81 And were beyond measure astonished,
"a ing. lie hath done an things well. He
maketh both the deaf 70 hear ard the dumb
20 speak
GOLDEN TEXT Without faith itls i'm
possible 20 please Him fob ll:lG
ANALYSIS or SCRIPTURE SECTION.
jesus Walking on the Water. Lark 6.i5-52
Jesus Hea1ng Many. ....--..... Mark .53-56
Discourse on Eating with CuwasLed
Hands .............. ........ Mark l-23
Healing Woman's Daughter. Mark .2i-3J
Healing Dsal ana Dumb Man. Mark .3l-S7
Bead also parallel passage. Matt. li:22-
u .ai.
TIME Late ln me summer Of 4. d %.
PLACE. Tile region OF Tyre and SiGou;
NOTES AND CONTENTS.
From thence" From Capernaum
"The borders Of Tyre" ETC.: That is.
Phoeuicia. Jesus and his disciples were
now IN the land of foreigners They were
there for several reasons. % They could
not stay where they were. His followers
had many Of them left Him, and popular
feeling against Him was running high in
Galilee 1t was reaction % lie had
had a controversy with the Pharisees
/ from Jerusalem. in which He had talked
10 them with plainness they had prob
ably never heard before, calling them
hypocrites; OF course. making their OPP
= position to Him more bitter. Further
work in Galilee at this time was out OF
/ the question. CD A foreign country was
chosen because of its distance from the
scene of the trouble and because It's peo-
pie were not likely TO know or care about
the contention between Jesus and the
Pharisees. He entered
would have no man know it," This was
not preaching tour. but a much-needed
respite from wearing ministry Safety.
rest and the training Of the disciples were
sought AN unclean spirit Probably
I epilepsy very distressing disease and
one which Jesus frequently met. In
\ those days 1t was supposed, like feyers
and insanity to be caused by demons
The symptoms were intense suffering.
| falling Matt. IL: 1919, sudden
! raroxysms. dumbness. foaming at the
mouth and other Accomplishments Of
what we call epilepsy MARK 9: H. 49,
"A Creek" That is. a Gentle, or as a
Jew would be apt TO say a dog" The
Jews were an arrogant race and almost
always mad uncomplimentary names for
foreigners. "A Syrophoeuician:" Or a
Syrian Phoenician. Let the children
first be filled" etc: a sentence which
we say at first does not sound like Jesus
Compare Matthews account BY the
children Jesus meant the Jews. The dogs
lie used in the common way for Gentiles
Ii was rot harsh as ii would be TO call
person dog to-day. lie did not think
the Gentiles OF less importance than the
Jews. or care less for their sufferings.
but in planning the great work Of saliva
ton He had to begin somewhere. The
plan must be the wisest one possible,
and then He must stick to H. The plan
was to begin the conquest Of the. world
al home. with his own people.
They bring unto Him" After He
reached Galilee again Took Him aside
privately" IL is not an easy
thing to communicate with one who is
practically deaf and dumb. Jesus might
have healed him offhanded in the crowd.
but lie wanted to make spiritual i'm
preston on him as we'll See how the
Master uses the sign language In dealing
with this man-touches his ears and his
tongue: He spat; saliva was suppose to
have healing power. the man received an
idea. Then he looked up to Heaven and
signed: the mans idea was enlarged. God
came into the transaction. and Jesus
spoke the word. and he was healed, and
had learned the mos impressive lesson
OF his life as well