OUR BIBLE BAND

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 11, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 40.

Schedule for Week Ending October 22


Sunday,	October 16	Mark 11-13
Monday,	" 17	" 14
Tuesday,	" 18	" 15, 16
Wednesday,	" 19	John 1, 2
Thursday,	" 20	" 3, 4
Friday,	" 21	" 5, 6
Sabbath,	" 22	" 7, 8

BEGINNING with Mark 11 and its emphatic appeal to simple faith in God's Word, passing over the captious questions of Pharisee and Sadducee, we are brought in the 13th chapter to the discourse of our Lord concerning His second coming. In reading this we ought to recall what is said in Matthew and Luke. All of them are different records of the same instruction. Chapters 14, 15, and 16 close our Lord's life here upon the earth and record His triumph over death. Here again we have Mark recording the very words used in the original where Jesus prays “Abba Father.” “Golgotha,” we are told means a skull.

THE last twelve verses of Mark are not in some of the early Greek manuscripts. They are however in others. The Revised Version retains them with a marginal note, and some of the best critics retain them. They are in perfect harmony with other scriptures, and may have been omitted from some of the earlier manuscripts either by the copyist or by the loss of sheets containing them.

THE last four days of the week are in the wonderful Gospel of John, the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James, one of the earliest and also supposed to be the youngest of our Lord's disciples. He is especially spoken of as “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” He with James and Peter, sometimes Andrew, seems to have been admitted into a closer relationship with Christ than the other apostles. Mark 14:33; Luke 8:51. He became the constant follower of the Lord, and went in with Him into the council-chambers at the time of His trial. By his nearness to our Lord he was not tempted to disobey. He was banished at one time to Patmos, but returned again to Ephesus, where he taught till, it is said, A.D. 98 or later. The purpose of the Gospel is the wonderful depths of the teaching of Christ, and is told that we may believe on Him, and believing have life through His name. John 20:31. It is called the spiritual Gospel, to distinguish it from the other three Gospels, which are called the synoptic Gospels. In this Gospel we have glimpses of the very heart of Jesus in His teachings.