Where was this recorded? How long before that time had Abraham, &c., been dead?

How did this passage then prove a resurrection or a future state? 33. How did this answer affect the multitude? What section of the history here follows, (§ 120.) and where else is it recorded?

34. Who next attempted to puzzle Christ? Repeat. 35, 36. What one undertook this?

What was a lawyer at that time, and by what other name wers such known?

What question did He ask?

What is meant by the law, and the great commandment? 37. 38. What did Jesus answer?

39. What did He further say? How did this answer the question? 40. What is here said?

What is meant by the law and the prophets?

What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?

What did the scribe answer? (See Mark.)

What section here follows, (§ 121.) and where else is it recorded? 41, 42. What question did Jesus now ask the Phar. isees? Repeat.

What did they answer?

32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.

34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

35 Then one of them which was a lawyer, asked him a question tempting him, and saying,

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

10 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unte Kim, The son of David.

43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord saying,

43-45. How did He puzzle them, and show their

ignorance of the scripture?

How was Christ David's Lord, and how his Son?

Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?

How did Christ the Son of God become man?

46. Could they answer Him?

What effect had this upon them?

How does Christ's Divinity appear from all this?

LESSON XLV.

Warnings against the Scribes and Pharisees.
MATT. XXII. 1—22.

What section of the history here follows, (§ 122.) and by whom else is it recorded?

1. To whom did Jesus then speak?

2. How did they sit in Moses' seat?

3. What obedience was due them in that station? Was their example to be followed?

4. What did they unjustly do?

What burdens are here meant? (Acts xv. 10.)

5-7. What was their character, and conduct?

44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till } make thine enemies thy footstool?

45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth, ask him any more questions.

CHAPTER XXIII.

1 THEN spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

4 For they bind heavy burdens, and grid ous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with ne of their fingers.

5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the aynagogues,

Explain these practices, as here referred to, and what disposi tion did they all shop?

8. What did Jesus here forbid ?

What disposition did it mean to discourage?

9. What further did He here forbid them, and why?

What does this mean? What is the first commandment? 10. What else were they not to allow, and what reason is given?

11, 12. What rule is here given them on this sub ject?

What is the chief end of man?

What doth the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us ? What section here follows, (§ 123.) and where else is it recorded? 13. What did Jesus now say to the Scribes and Pharisees?

For what did He condemn them?

How did they do this? (Luke xi. 52.)

14. What crimes were they guilty of? Explain the terms.

What is meant by a pretence?

What hypocrisy did they show which should increase their condemnation ?

15. What other wo is here denounced? What is meant by their compassing sea and land?

7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father which is in heaven.

10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. 11 But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant.

12 And whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased; and he shat shall humble himself, shall be exalted.

13 But wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering, to go in.

14 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

What is meant by making a proselyte?
What did they do with such?
What is meant by the child of hell?

16. What did Jesus here call them? Explain the

terms.

What did they say about swearing by different things?

What practice is here referred to?

17. How is their folly here shown?

18. What further did they say?

19. How was this distinction shown to be absurd? 20-22. What doctrine is here taught on this subject?

Is it wrong then to swear by things or by persons, as well as to swear by God?

What is profane swearing?

Which is the Third Commandment, and what does it forbid?

15 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves.

16 Wo unto you, ye blind guides! which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.

17 Ye fools, and blind! for whether is greater, the gold, or the templa that sanctifieth the gold?

18 And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoso ever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

19 Ye fools, and blind! for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, swearcth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweare by the throne of God, aad by him that sitteth thereon.

LESSON XLVI.

The Scribes and Pharisees further reproved.

MATT. Xxiii. 23-39.

23. How else does He show them to be hypocrites?

What is meant by tithe? Explain the tithes that were required. (See Numb. xviii. 20-24.)

What is meant by mentioning these tithes which they paid?
What had they omitted?

What is meant by these things?
What was wrong then?

24. What does Christ here call them, and why? How is their false teaching here described? What is meant by this language, and what allusion is made? 25. How is their hypocrisy here described? Explain the terms, and what character is this?

26. What direction does Jesus give?

27, 28. How is their hypocrisy further set forth? Explain.

29-31. What is here charged against them? Explain this custom.

23 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tith of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matter of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

25 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clea the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of er tortion and excess.

26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

27 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are lik unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but ars within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but withia ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous. 30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not Dave been partakers with them in the blood of the propi.ets.