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spreading contam ination while no one suspected them offeyil.—F raser. v. 46. Lawyers. A scribe and a lawyer were different names for the same class— th e clergy of the day. They were the au tho rities for th e exposition of the law.—-Butler. v. 48. Build th e ir sepulchres. Your pretended reverence for these m artyrs, shown in resto ring th eir sepulchres while you are ready to repeat the wickedness of th e ir murderers, makes these tombs a w itness against you.— Geikie. v. 49. Wisdom of God. Christ Himself, as appears from Mt. 23:34. The divine Word is the sender of th e prophets and spoke by th e ir m outhg,=3 .Wordsworth. v. 50. Blood of th e prophets. The m urder of Abel was th e first in the strife between unrighteousness and holiness, and as these Jews represent in th eir conduct, both in former times and now, the m u rderer of the first, they must bear the vengeance of the whole in God’s day of w rath. Our- Lord men tions the m urder of Zacharias, no t as being the last, even before His own day, bu t because it was- connected specially w ith the cry of the dying man, “The Lord look upon it and require it” (2 Chron. 2 4 :2 2 ).—Alford. When a generation concurs in h eart with th e wickedness of an earlier generation, it receives, in the final retribution, of the accumulated guilt.—VanOosterzee. v. 52. Key to knowledge. This may be an allusion to the custom among Jews in the adm ission of th eir doctors. Those to whom they gave au tho rity to in te rp re t the law and prophets were sol emnly adm itted into tn a t office by de livering to them a key. By tak ing away th e key of knowledge is m eant not only th a t they arrogated to themselves the tru e understanding of the. Scriptures, but th a t they neither used it themselves nor suffered others to make use of it.— Tillotson. Jesu s In The Home Of H is F riends. Luke 10:38-42. Memory Verse.— “Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.” Jno. 11: Approach.—-How do we tre a t our friends when they come to our home to visit or ea t dinner w ith us? Yes, we tre a t them kindly, and do all we can to
make them com- fortable and happy, and we love to havo our friends come to our homes, and we
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like to go to the homes of our friends. Jesu s did not have any home of His own when He was down here on earth, but.H is tru e friends loved to share th e ir, homes w ith Him, and now we will bow ;our -heads and th a n k Jesus for our homes and friends. Lesson Story.— How many have been playing the game of the good Samari tan th is week? E arl, you tell us what you did. Read a story 'to a little boy who was sick. T hat is fine, and I know by your face you were happy in doing it. C lara, what did you find to do? Gave your doll to a little poor girl who did not have any. Charles went to the store every day for a neighbor who had a sore foot and could not walk far. Ber nice took care of a neighbor’s baby while the mother went on an errand. My, what a good tim e we had playing “Good S am aritan.” Now in our story today Jesus is in th e home of two sisters and a brother, and I th ink some of you can guess whose home it was. Yes, the home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus in the little town of Bethany, where Jesus loved to go, and He was always a very welcome guest in this home. I wonder if Jesus is a welcome guest in our home, and do we live so th a t we are glad to have Jesus rig h t w ith us? When Jesus came into th is home Mary sat down a t His feet, th a t she m ight listen to what. He ta u g h t about the way to be saved a n d taken to heaven. Mary of course knew all about this and be longed to Jesus, but she loved to be n ear Jesus and hear Him speak. Martha was busy w ith the dinner, and she spoke to Jesus and wanted Him to ask Mary to come and help her w ith the dinner. Jesus answered M artha and told her not to be troubled about so much serving, and th a t Mary had chosen the best part,
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