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PRACTICAL POINTS (1) They “led Him” that He might lead us. (2) We led Him to the hill of Death, but He leads us to the river of Life. (3) The cross is a place of rejoicing for dying sinners. (4) - Jesus must needs be offered outside the gate. (Lev. 9:8-11). (5) Jesus “in the midst” makes the only difference twixt thief and thief.
( 6 ) “The place of the skull” is the death- warning to sinners. (7) Mary was entrusted to John, not John to Mary, as Rome would have it. ( 8 ) “It is finished” and completed All the work of saving grace; Therefore is the Worker seated In the heavenly resting place; _ “It is finished,” Christ hath done it; “It is finished,” Christ hath won it; “Finished,” fainting heart be glad; “Finished,” we can nothing add.
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JUNE 17, 1917. LESSON XII. John 20:2-16. (Read 1-18. Memorize vs. 15, 16). G olden T ext : “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.”—l .Cor. 15:20.
DAILY BIBLE READINGS Mon., June 11—John 20:1-9. (The Lesson). Tues., June 12—John 20:10-18. (The Lesson).
Wed., June 13—John 20:19-31. Thurs., June 14—John 21:1-14. Fri., June 15—1 Cor. 15:1-11. Sat., June 16—1 Cor. 15:12-28. Sun., June 17—1 Cor. 15:35-49.
EXPOSITION AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
vs. 1, 2, "The (Now on the) first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when (while) it was yet dark, unto the sep ulchre (tomb), and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre (tomb). Then she runneth (She runneth therefore,) and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre (tomb), and we know not where they have laid Him." There appear to be at the first glance contradictions between the various Gospel narratives of the resurrection. All these contradictions would disappear if we knew all the facts in the case. Most of them do disappear as we compare not merely two Gospels, but compare all four. The apparent con tradiction between the Gospels in regard to the exact time when they reached the
tomb disappears when we come to under stand that, while Mary Magdalene started out for the tomb with the other women, she hurried on ahead of them and reached the tomb before they arrived. It was “dark” in more senses than one as Mary hurried toward that tomb in which she fancied that her Lord lay. But the sun was soon to rise and bring to her the brightness and joy of endless day. As soon as Mary saw the stone rolled away she at once jumped at the conclusion that the tomb had been rifled. It never occurred to her that the Lord had risen and that God had rolled away the stone for her and the other women to enter into the empty tomb and hear about the risen Lord. Very much in the same way we often in our ignorance and unbelief put a dark con struction upon facts which, if we only
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