A WEW SERIES OP I I] SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS -------FROM THE GOSPEL OF JOHN------– SUGGESTED ond APPROVED b)l the FUNDAMENTALS COMMnTEE
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Exposition of the Lesson, Including Lesson for Juniors Suggesti'i)e Comment • • • • • • •
. T. C. Horton By Prominent Ministers
SEPTEMBER 9, 1923 JESUS RISEN-John 20: 1-18 Golden Text: "He is not here; for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay" (Matt. 28:6). Outline: (1) (1)
WARNING AND WONDERING, vs. 1-10, "They have taken away the Lord • • • and we know not where they have laid Him." v. 2. Mark tells us that the women fol– lowed the btidy of Jesus to the tomb and "beheld where they laid Him." While the apostles fled in fear, love compelled Mary Magdalene to linger until she marks the place of the burial of her Lord. As soon as the Sabbath is past, "early in the morning, when it was yet dark" she finds her way to the tomb. She felt she must be near. Others might sleep, but she could not. She waits for the dawn, which re– veals to her the fact that the stone has been removed and that the sepulchre is empty, and runs to tell the disciples. She wants someone with whom to share the news and thinks of the two men who were most bereaved,-Peter and John. These two disciples hasten to the tomb. John, being the younger, out· runs Peter, but Peter, the Impetuous, is the first to enter. The evidence of the resurrection of Jesus meets their gaze,-the linen clothes lying In order, the napkin which had been about His head lying by itself. They had el· pected to find His body (Luke 24:3),
Warning and Wondering, vs. 1-10. Watching and Weeping, vs. 11- 14. Welcoming and Witnessing, vs. 15-18.
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Introduction: The death of Jesus linked two men together inseparably,-Joseph and Ni– codemus. Together they cared for the sacred body of the Son of God, tend– erly they laid Him away in Joseph's new tomb, thus fulfilling Scripture. It has been an awful day for Pilate with his guilty conscience and the re– membrance of his depraved and cruel weakness which has caused the death of an innocent man. It had been a terrible day for the priests,-the celebration of the Pass– over feast brought no peace or joy to them. The thought of the blood– stained lintel, of Egypt and of the eye of God must have filled them with dread and fear. It had been a sad day for the scat– tered and frightened disciples,-the first day of their separation from Him who had been their leader. What a dark day it would have been for the world if He had not risen from the dead!
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