Elias, when there was no rain for three years and six months?

Ans. A widow of Sarepta. LUKE iv. 26.

In what country was Sarepta?

Ans. In Sidon.

LUKE iv. 26.

Was it a Jewish or Gentile country?

Ans. A Gentile country.

Was the widow a Jewess, or a Gentile woman?

Ans. She was a Gentile.

What did the Saviour teach?

Ans. That, in a time of severe famine, God did not send his prophet to bless a Jew, but to bless a heathen.

Where were there many lepers in the time of Eliseus, the prophet?

Of what country was Naaman a native?
Ans. Syria.

To which division of mankind did he belong, then?

Ans. To the Gentile division.

What did the Saviour teach from this piece of history?

Ans. That in time of extreme sickness, God's prophet healed a heathen, rather than one of the chosen people.

How were the people in the synagogue affected by this plain statement of the providence of God over all people?

Ans. All they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath. LUKE iv. 28.

What did they do to Jesus?

Ans. And they rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. LUKE iv. 29.

At first, the people heard him gladly, and wondered at the gracious words he uttered. What caused this great and sudden change of feeling?

Ans. He talked of God's goodness to the heathen; and they could not endure to hear of his goodness to any but Jews.

Did Jesus more than intimate that he would bless the Gentile world?

Ans. And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. LUKE iv. 24.

What prediction of himself was Jesus fulfilling in the synagogue at Nazareth?

Ans. A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. LUKE ii. 32.

What other prophecy was he fulfilling? Ans. It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. ISA. xlix. 6.

GREEKS DESIRE TO SEE JESUS.

People of what nation came to observe the Passover at Jerusalem?

Ans. There were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast. JOHN xii. 20.

What did they say to Philip?

Ans. The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. JOHN

xii. 21.

Whom did Philip inform of this request? Ans. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew. JOHN xii. 22.

Who informed Jesus that Greeks wished to see him?

Ans. Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. JOHN xii. 22.

Were Greeks Jews, or Gentiles?

Ans. Gentiles.

What did Jesus first say upon hearing this request of Greeks to see him?

Ans. And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. JOHN xii. 23.

How would Jesus be glorified?

Ans. Thou madest him a little lower that the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man. HEB. ii. 7-9.

Mention one more passage in which Christ's glory is described.

Ans. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. And, being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly