Matthew and Luke

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 37.

Our lesson finishes the Gospel by Matthew, and covers the first seven chapters of Luke.

The closing chapters of Matthew are of intense interest,—the last discourses of our Lord, among which is that of chapter 24 on His second coming, and the sad, awful, yet blessed story of His sufferings, death, and resurrection.

Luke was not one of the twelve disciples; he was converted afterward, perhaps by Paul. He is called the "beloved physician," and was much with the apostle Paul. Besides this, he set himself to ascertain all the details of our Lord's life, and therefore gives the fullest accounts of His parents, infancy, and childhood, as also the story of John the Baptist.

Matthew gives the royal genealogy of Christ in his first chapter, showing that to Jesus belonged the throne of David. Luke gives the line through the mother, Mary, Joseph being mentioned in the place of Mary, because the record is reckoned through the male line. Following the record of our Lord's youth are events in His ministry, healing, and teaching. Read slowly, carefully, thoughtfully. Let the imagination transport us to the scenes recorded, and there live with the Master, and then let faith bring Him, ever the same, into our own life.