Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-11-23
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson lx.-Fourih Quarter, For
NOV. 27, 1910.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
Text of the Lesson. Matt. XVI, 81 60.
Memory Verse, 64-GoIden Text. I
Pet ii, 23-Commentary Prepared
by Rev. D. NJ. Stearns

A great awe should be upon us as
we read or write or think upon these
things Behold the Son of God yield
Ing Himself for our sakes 70 sinful
men. See the hatred OF men to God
and the proof that the carnal mind Is
take Him in the garden He went to
meet them. saying. Whom seek YEP"
To their reply Jesus of Nazareth" lie
said IL am and they went backward
and fell TO the ground. He allowed
them to rise. TO approach Him again
and to take Him and bind him and
lead Him away to Annals and then TO
Caiaphas. All the disciples fOrsook
Him and fed, but young man fol
lowed. having just a linen cloth about
his naked body, which he left in the
hands of his pursuers as they tried to
lay hold Of him, and he fled naked.
We shall have 70 ask Mark who that
young man was. as he alone records Il
Mark xiv. 81, 52). 1t was an oppor-
tunity of fellowship with Jesus which
he. like the others, missed. Simon
Peter and John returned and followed
Jesus, John going in TO the palace Of
the high priest, for he was known 10
him. but Peter remaining without un-
til John spoke TO the maid that kept
the door and brought I'm Peter. Then
he sat with the servants and warmed
himself at their fire. But we must
leave his story till next week.
In reply to the high priests queS-
II
In secret have l said nothing;
ask them which heard me- John xviii.
1924. They brought many false wit
nesses to testify against Jesus, but
none of them agreed In their testi-
mony, not even the two OF verse GO
See Mark xiv, $3.50. To the high
priests question, "Answerest thou
nothingY' Jesus held His peace. for
there was nothing TO reply TO. In Ps
xxxv. IL. IT is written. False witness
es did rise up: they laid TO my charge
things that 1 knew not" Unless you
have been similarly I'll treated you can
not imagine how hard ii is to put in
practice Ps. xxxviii. Is. II as a deaf
man heard not. and ] was as dumb
man that openeth not his mouth"
When the high priest said. Il nd.
lure thee by the living God that thou
| tell US whether thou be the Christ. the
Son of God" Verse go. then Jesus
| said. Il am, and We shall see the Son
OF Man sitting on the right hand Of
| power and coming in the clouds of
heaven" Mark xiv, CO. with verse ca.
Then they judged Him guilty OF bias
II
But It was the truth that He spake,
and they shall yet see it. and If they
did not repent before they died they
shall have to hear His Depart from
me- ye cursed" After they judged
Him guilty Of death they Knocked Him.
blindfolded Him. struck Him on the
face. spit in His face and said, "Proph.
esy unto us, thou Christ, who is he
that smote thee" Even the servants
smOte Him with the palms of their
hands Mark xiv. CO.. When morning
was come they bound Him and LED
Him away and delivered Him to Pom
thus PLATE, the governor, that he might
have Him put to death. their accuse
ton being that he was a malefactor
The result OF Pilates exa minatiOn OF
Him was a three or four fold Testimony
that he found no fault in Him aud, &c
cording to the harmony, sevenfold at
tempt to release Him. Pilates wifi,
also sent him message saying. HAY,
thou nothing to do with that jus
man, for j have suffered many thing
this day in q dream because Of Him.
When PLATE learned that He was o
w III All
Jurisdiction, he sent Him TO Herod
hoping thus to be rid Of this Difficult
and perplexing case. But as Jesus al
swered Herod nothing HerOd with hi
men of war set Him at naught an
Knocked Him and arrayed Him in
gorgeous robe and sent Him again t
Plate duke xiii, SIP. There wa
no imprisonment; there was no sen
: blance Of fair trial 1t was not III
like some of our modern cases c
lynching. except that it had seeming
ly the sanction of both church an
state
But this man was God. suffering q
this and all that followed for me an
leaving all His redeemed an examp
that we should follow in His step
who did no sin, neither was gui
found In His mouth; who when
was reviled reviled not again; whC
8 He suffered He threatened not, III
committed Himself to Him that jud
eth righteously Il Pet. II. 2l-23,. "E
was oppressed, and He was Athlete
y yet He opened not His mouth. lie
y brought as Il lamb to the slaughte
and as sheep before her shearers