What then did His answer mean? What are the decrees of God? 27. What did she say to this? What did this mean, and what spirit did she show by this? 28. What did Jesus answer? How was her faith so great? How doth Christ execute the office of a King? What was the result? What is Faith in Jesus Christ? How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? What doth God require of us that we may escape His wrath and curse due to us for sin ? What do we learn from this narrative as to the answering of our prayer? as to the trial of our faith? as to earnest perseverance in prayer? as to humility and faith together? 29. What is this section, (9.69.) and by whom else recorded? To what place did Christ go? Where is this sea, and how else is it called? 30. Who came to Him there? What did He do for them? What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell? How doth Christ execute the office of a king? 31. What effect had His miracles on the multitude? How was Christ the God of Israel? 32. What did Jesus now do and say? 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and to cast it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs cat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. 28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. 29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. 30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: 31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel. 82 T Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have com passion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three daya What is meant by their fasting? What do we pray for in the fourth petition? 33. What did His disciples answer? Where were they now? (See Mark.) 34. What did Jesus ask, and what did they answer? 35. What did He now command? 36. What did He do with the loaves and fishes? 37, 38, Was there an abundance, and how much was left? How came there to be more left than they had at first? What are God's works of Providence? › 39. What did He do with the multitude? Where did He go? Where are the coasts of Magdala, and why did He take ship ?" · A LESSON XXXII. The Pharisees and Sadducees require a Sign. MATT. XVI. 1-17, What is this section, (§ 70.) and by whom else recorded? 1. Who came to Jesus, and for what purpose? Who were the Pharisees and Sadducees? and have nothing to eat and I will not send them away fasting, lent they faint in the way. And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? 34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they aid, Seven, and a few little fishes. 35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. 36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. 37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. 38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, besides women ana children. 39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the asts of Magdala. What is here meant by tempting Him? ̈¦ 2, 3. What did He answer in these two verses? What was this that they could do, and what could they not do ↑ 4. What does He call them? What did He mean by these terms? Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? What is the next section, (§ 71.) and by whom else recorded? 5. What is meant by the other side? Where had they been? What had the disciples forgotten? 6. What warning did Christ give them? What is the meaning of take heed and beware? What is meant by the leaven, &c.? How doth Christ execute the office of a Prophet? 7. What did they think and say ? 8. What did Jesus say to them in this verse I (See Mark viii. 17.) ** CHAPTER XVI. 1 THE Pharisees also and the Sadducees came, and, tempting, desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky ia red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the popet Joms. And be left them, and departed. 6 And when his disciples were come to the other ade, they ha forgotten to take bread. 67 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the jeay of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, says in 'ecause we bare taken no bread How did they show their little faith? 9, 10. To what did He refer them in these verses? Why should they have thought of those supplies at this time. T 11. What did He say to them about His meaning? 12. What did He mean by the leaven, &c.? What was their doctrine which He warned them against? How doth Christ execute the office of a Prophet? What section is next in Matthew's narrative, (§ 73.) and by whom else is it recorded? 13. Where did Jesus come? What is meant by the coasts of this city, and where was it? What does He here call Himself? How did Christ the Son of God become man? 14. What did they say? Was John the Baptist living, and why did they think it was he? (See Ch. xiv. 2.) Who was Elias, and why was Christ thought to be he? Who was Jeremias ? 15. What did He further ask them? 16. Which of them replied, and what did he say? Who is the Redeemer of God's elect? 8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? 9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up ? 10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Saddy cees. 13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am? 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. What is meant by the Christ? What did he mean by "the Son of the living God?' What is Faith in Jesus Christ? 17. What did Jesus say to Peter in this verse? What did He mean by Bar-jona? What did He mean by flesh and blocd as not revealing this? What was this truth revealed from above? What is effectual calling? How doth the Spirit apply to us the Redemption purchased by Christ? 18. What did Jesus further say to Peter! What is referred to, by "this rock?" What is the meaning of the word "Peter?" (See John i. 42., What is Christ called by Peter himself? (1 Pet. ii. 4, 7.) Who is the true foundation? (1 Cor. iii. 11.) What is meant by the gates of hell? What is meant by this promise? What do we pray for in the second petition? What doth the conclusion to the Lord's Prayer teach us? › What is here meant by the keys of the kingdom of heaven? What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? What else did He say? Was this addressed to Peter only? (Ch. xviii. 18.) 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. 20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tel no man that he was Jesus the Christ. |