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Lesson IiI.-First Quarter, For
Jan. Il, 1917.
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Ondt of the wonderful and most In
teresdpg things in this first chapter OF
Johnj1s the many different names Of
the Ford Jesus. In this respect 1t Is
someEhat like Rev. I. He Is Gated the
Woriuf God. the Word made flesh. the
Son n God, the Son Of Man. the Lamb
Of Gdn, the Messiah. the King of lsra-
ell, Jefusso Nazareth and other names
and Acr ;5ne, tears Il different revela-
ton pf Him to our souls. Let our
heartsery ever he. That may know
Him. until we can say from the heart,
Yea. He is altogether lovely; this Is
my Beloved and this is my friend.
phil. iii. 10: Song V. iGl. When we
are fully occupied with Him all else
will seem different Az John cried the
next day, Behold the Lamb Of God.
two of Johns disciples followed Jesus,
and when He turned ana said. What
seek ye? they replied, Where dwellest
thou? To which He answered. Come
and see, This led to probably many
hours with Him. for it was about the
tenth hour oversees 5000, which was
not, as in the margin. two hours be
fore fight. but, as we, count time, 10
a. my
1t \ easily proved by John xix, II
wherd at the sixth hour, which must
have aeen our Il a. m, Jesus was still
befor9 Plate, that John uses Roman
time Is we still do Matthew, Mars
and Luke use Jewish time. counting
from j a.4E.. (Roman timer as the tie
gnniag OF tine day, So With them the
third hour would he our 8 a. M. the
SIXTH hour our IL noon. and so on
Jesusswas cruclded Mt the third hour /
Jewish time, or Il. m. Roman time
and orr time. The darkness began at |
the sixth hour and continued till the |
ninth Jewish time) or noon till 3
D. m. our time. when He died Mark |
Nv. %, SO, "a; Matt, xvii, As, 40;
Luke xxili. Al He met the woman |
at the we'll at 6 a. m. or 6 p. m. John .
", @, not AT noon. Just remember .
that John counts the hours of the day |
as we do What our Lord talked about /
in this instance Is shown In \
tie previous chapter duke XXIV), I
where we read Of His conversation on |
the way to Emmaus, and In the upper I
room that same evening. We know
that one of the two men on this occa-
sion was Andrew. and we may safely
conclude that the other was John him
self yerses 1912, for the evangefsts
haveta way Of not mentioning their
own flames when they are specially In
tk.s1yent
We may also easily imagine that
John found his brother James as quick
ly as Andrew found Simon. Are we
as eager to bring others to Him. and
does our talk about Him lead others
away from ourselves to Him, as Johns |
Behold the Lamb Of God!' did? Is
our motto He must increase, but ! |
must decreaseJ' John iii, 800 The |
next day Jesus went Himself to find /
Philip Of Bethsaida, the city Of An
drew and Peter, and said to him. FOL |
low me- ! cannot tell you why He
sought Philip and went Himself to d.
It, but am glad that He ever sought ,
me, though | fear that He has occasion |
to say TO me- as He did TO Philip aft !
er those three years, Have | been so
long time with you, and yet hast thou |
not known Me" 0ohn xiv, o. We
all seem TO become acquainted with
Him so slowly. Oh, how pateut He
is with us His "Follow Me- to Phil
ip (yerses - AZ makes us think Of
His resurrection word to Peter In chap
ter xxi, 10, =, and the application TO
US is so hclpfil
Philip soon found a friend saying to
him, I'VE have found Him of whom
Moses In theslaw ana the prophets did
write With dlslainful word con
corning Nazareth Nathaniel was per
suaded to come ana see for himself,
and soon h0 was heard eEclamng
rabbi, Thoaart the Son OF God; Thou
art the Kingsof Israel" Oversees 4J-i9D.
Perhaps the word Of Jesus. Before
that Philip called thee when thou
vast under the fig tree. saw thee"
had something to do with his ccnfes
sion. Only He who knowcth our down
sitting and uprising and all our ways
could say such things to any one Cps
cxxxix. Ia. 1t will help us greatly II
we remember that we have 70 do with
Him who knows MS so thoroughly and
TO whom all things are naked and open
Our Lords next word TO Nathaniel
Thou shalt see greater things than
these | have often taken TO myself
as have sen many Of the wonderful
things He lhs wrought for us and
through US, and then haze | pleaded
again His w9tls IN Jor. xxxiu. 3.
The last vtrse in our lesson, which
is an evident reference to Jacobs
dream and ,ylslon at Bethel Gen
xviii, 12). i9akes me think that per.
haps under ttpt fir tree Nathaniel had
been medltaapg upon this one thing,
else why SHOULD our Lord refer TO It?
If my suppoltlon Ia right ltyls.a CON
frmation Of tlzek xi. :. a know the
things that come into your mind. every
one OF them" 0aly in this gospel Is
this mnn mnntlnMnl hY Lhia nn1nn I'M