Suggestions for Further Study

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 40.

Suggestions for Further Study.

1. What kind of hearing is referred to in verse 60? Compare Rev. 2:7, etc.

2. Observe that the preexistence of Christ is taught in verse 62.

3. Christ says, "The words that I speak unto you," rather than "my words." What is the difference? Compare Deut. 18:18; John 17:8, etc.

4. Study the opposite effect of the same teaching and privileges upon Judas and the other disciples. What lesson in this?

5. Since Christ's words are life, may we not expect them to perform the functions of life? Compare Heb. 4:12; Acts 12:24; 19:20, etc.

6. Observe the progress of the change in the feeling of the people toward Christ as shown in this chapter. Verses 15, 41, 52, 60, 66.

7. The word translated "a devil" in verse 70 is translated "slanderers" in 1 Tim. 3:11, and "false accusers" in 2 Tim. 3:3 and Titus 2:3. Satan was the great original slanderer, who slandered both God and Christ. Judas followed in his track. He "misrepresented Christ in telling the priests falsehoods about his teaching."

8. In what ways is "life only in Christ" taught in this lesson?