THE KING’S BUSINESS
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I. R-ewarding the Laborers.
VII. L-etting Out the Vineyard.
Matthew 20:1-16
Matthew 21:33-46
II. E-ligibility to Kingship.
Vili. E-xcuses and Evangelism.
Mark 10:32-45 Mark 10:46-52 Luke 19:11-27
Matthew 22:1-14
III. V-ision for Blindness.
IX. S-hall We Pay Tribute?
Matthew 22:15-22
IV. I-nventory of Gain by Trading.
. X. S-ubstance of the Law, The.
Mark 12:28-44
V. E-ntry, The Triumphant
XL O-il in Our Vessels.
Mark 11:1-11
Matthew 25:1-13
VI. W-ine Defiling the Temple.
XII. N-ations Judged.
Mark 11:11-33
Matthew 25:31-46
Lessons of the Fourth Quarter Holy Week in the Life of Christ
LESSON. I.—October 4.—J esus A nointed eor B urial .—Mark 14:1-11. G olden T e x t . —She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body before hand to the burying. —Mark 14:8.
Mary (John 12:2, 3). It is pleasant to know that it was Mary, sweet Mary, sweeter than any costly nard, who sat at Jesus’ feet; and that Martha, as she was wont to show her love, “ served” ; and that Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead, was there: Simon the Leper as one raised from spiritual death, and Lazarus from physical. “Having a box of ointment which was," like “all the perfumes of Ara bia,” “very precious (a small alabaster flask, but containing the value of nearly a year's wages), and she brake the box, and poured it on His head.” John 12:3 says she anointed His feet: and wiped His feet with her hair ( “ the glory of the woman” ). A more beautiful act the ages do not af ford. More grateful incense was never of fered on the altar of the sanctuary of God and of love. “ The house was filled with the odor” (John 12:3) which has filled the world and all time, a symbol of the loveliest lives poured out at the feet of Him whose very “name is as ointment poured forth” (Song of Songs 1:3). III. J udas ’ D e n u n c ia t io n , —v. 5. “W hy was this waste of the ointment made?" So some said in indignation. Mat thew says it was the disciples (26:8), John
I. T h e J ew s ’ C o n s p ir a c y — vs . 1, 2. "Two days before the Passover," the me morial of that night when the stroke of judgment passed over Israel, sheltered by the blood of the lamb, and fell on the Egyptians (Exod. 12), and which was fol lowed by "the feast of unleavened bread" (Exod. 12:19, 20). The Jewish authori ties now plotted to take Jesus “ by craft," and “put to death," that “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev. 13:8; 1 Cor. 5:7). But “not on the feast day,” they said, “ for they feared the people” (Matt. 21:46). Jesus had many friends among the Gallieans, especially. This oc curred several days before the anointing which fixed the resolve of Judas and is introduced here for this reason. II. M a r y ' s D evotion .— v. 3. "And being in Bethany’ He was enter tained by “Simon the Leper," whose name is his biography. O f course he was not then a leper. No doubt he had been healed by Jesus. This was his memorial name, and one in which he gloried as “Only a sinner, saved by grace.” “A s he sat," or reclined at length, by custom, at the table “ there came a woman,”
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