The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-01-14
The Beginning of the
Galhean Ministry
Sunday School Lesson for Jan. l6, 1910
Specially Arranged for This Paper

LESSON TENT.-Matt 4:2-25. Memory
verse %.
GOLDEN TEXT-"The people which
sat in darkness saw great light" Matt.
4:l6
TIAtE.-John the Baptist was inn
prisoned the latter part OF March, A. ID.
2S The four disciples We're called in
April or May. The Galilean ministry
continued about year and nine months
from April, A. ID. 2S, TO near the close
OF A. ID. 20.
PLACE.-Jesus now made his home I'm
Capernaum. on the Sea OF Galilee. The
scene OF his ministry was the Province of
! Galilee.
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
Introduction to the Lesson.-Vs. ~,
Is. Why does Matthew omit more than
year of Jesus ministry? Because he
would have his record that of an eye.
witness, from personal observation.
BY whom were the events of the
Judean ministry recorded? BY the
Apostle John, the relative and most in.
innate friend of Jesus.
Why did Jesus go to Galilee for his
longest work in establishing the new
form of the kingdom of God? Because
it was better soil for the good seed.
less numbered with the stony ground
OF official and superficial ceremonies
and with the thorns of selfish inter
ests, OF worldliness labeled as piety,
less trodden into beaten paths of rit-
ual, forms, customs, habits, pleasures,
and cares connected with the machin.
cry of religion.
Why did Jesus leave Nazareth? Be-
cause, as we learn from Luke 4 1851,
his townsmen rejected and tried to
kill him. This wrong Providence caus-
ed to work out good, for Nazareth was
not the best situation for carrying out
his mission.
l. The Prophetic Vision. The Dawn
of the New Kingdom-Vs. 1916 Isa.
9: /, 2. Spoken by Esaias, Greek for
Isaiah, Gods message through the
prophet. lisa. 3: /, 81 The territory
spoken of, the tribes of "Zebulun,"
and "Naphtali" were the northern
most tribes, (15) by the way of the
sea-" or toward the Sea of Galilee.
where the great eastern roads entered
the country beyond Jordan, Galilee
of the Gentiles," the portions of Cali.
lee adjoining the heather nations.
II. Preaching the Gospel Char
acteristic of Jesus Work Throughout
His Ministry.-V. Il. Jesus began to
let this new light shine, and to prove
that he was the one foretold by the
prophet.
Began to preach" proclaim as the
herald of the king, who had sent him.
He preached in every possible method
by which he could reach the hearts
of mon.
III. Selecting and Training Work
ers. The Calling Of the Four.-Vs. 49,
%. Jesus now made another advance
in his plan of selecting and training
men to enlarge his present work, and
to prepare for it's continuance and the
extension of his gospel after his
death. 1t was "a school of instruc-
ton in his ideal of righteousness
Simon, who is "called Peter" the
Rock, so named by Jesus on his first
acquaintance John l: 42) as a proph-
ecy and ideal, call upward to fulfil
the possibilities within him. And
his possibilities as a fisher of men, by
bringing his brother to Jesus. Cast.
ing a'net into the sea-" Matthew gives
a condensed account Of the story told
in full by Luke. Jesus used one of
their boats as pulpit to preach to the
people on the shore. He showed the
fishermen that the boat was of value,
oil feb n
night in vain. Then at his command
they let down their nets and enclosed
great number OF fishes. 1t was with
great wisdom that at this point when
they were marveling at their success.
Jesus (19) saith unto them, Follow
me, and / will make you fishers of
men," Their partners, James and
John, who had been summoned to aid
Peter, were not far away.
81. Going on from thence, he saw"
these "other two brethren" in their
boat with Zebedee their father. mend
ing their nets" which had been torn by
the great catch of fish. And he called
them" All four left their nets, and
followed Jesus, and became fishers
oil men.
w. Going About Doing Good to the
Bodies and Souls of Men.-Vs. 1925.
These verses are a summary Of which
chapters SO give a detailed account
showing his varied, extensive, and
far-famed work" %. and Jesus went
about all Galilee." This was his first
tour of the country. Jesus scattered
the good seed everywhere, knowing
that some of it would fall into the
good soil of honest hearts and spring
up and bear fruit.
"a. And his fame" the report" Of
what Jesus was doing. The result was
that from all the region, including
Syria, the country to the north of Gall
lee, they brought unto him all sick
people that were taken with divers dis
cases." such as fevers, leprosy, blind
ness, lameness, dropsy. and torments,
diseases attended with excruciating
pain.