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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 35.

This Week’s Bible Readings

By Editor

Our week's reading begins with Matthew 28, the triumph of our Lord in the resurrection. It is fitting that we should connect with this, Psalm 89, David's prophetic song of deliverance. We omit Mark and Luke. These may be taken up in another year's reading. It is necessary in order to shorten our readings for the year.

We proceed directly to John, "the beloved disciple," whose Gospel was written about fifty years after that of Matthew. He does not deal with the beginning of the earth life of our Lord, plunging right into the very doctrine, the spiritual meat of it, at once. He wishes to impress upon us the great fact that He who came and lived and died for us was the eternal Word. The great lesson is the lesson of life which God offers, and how we may receive that life. The readings in John for this week close with John 5. Note the closing verses, and the endorsement which our divine Lord gives to Moses and what Moses wrote. The Sabbath readings cover Psalms 97-101.