What does Satan seem to have now been? In his last trial, what seems to have been his hope? What did he show him? What did he say to him? What did the Lord Jesus answer? What was Satan from the beginning? What have his lies always been? What was the lie he told to Adam and Eve? And what was the end of it? What has he continued ever since? To what has he in this way persuaded many? Why must all such hopes be disappointed? From what can the servant of God not escape? If Satan had really the power he pretended, what would Jesus have still answered? If we think over the three temptations, what shall we find in them? What is the first temptation we shall find in them? What is the second? What is the third? If we meet these temptations as Christ met them, what shall we find? What did the devil now do? Who came to Jesus? The time of temptation was ended, what happened now? XXII.-page 96. What ought we to read before going on further with the life of Jesus Christ? What shall we see that the Apostle John thinks it of great importance that we should understand? What is the first verse of his Gospel? Who is meant by "The Word?" What is the reason why the Lord Jesus is called "The Word?" How does the Father speak to his people? How do men speak to each other? Where was Jesus the Word of God" from the beginning? What do we read in the Bible that He was? What did God the Father employ him to do? Read the 3rd verse of the 1st of St. John Gospel, also the 2nd verse of the 1st chapter of Hebrews. What do we find in verse 4, of 1st of John? Why is He the life of men? When did St. John write his Gospel? What is the complaint in verses 10, 11? What is full of gladness? To whom did He give power to become the sons of God? Of whose will were these born? Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God? If you really believe this, what does He give you power to become? Of whose will are you thus born? "If then God is on your side, who can be against you?" Rom. ix. 31. XXIII. page 98. While Jesus was in the desert tempted of the devil, what was John the Baptist doing? What did He declare to the people who flocked to him? What did men now begin to wonder at? What did the rulers of the Jews send to ask him? What did John confess? What was next asked him? What did John say He was? Who did the Jews expect besides the Messiah? Who did they mean by "that prophet?" What did the last answer of John send them to? Of what did he put them in mind? When the messengers sent by the Ruler asked John why he bap tized, what was his answer? Who did John see the next day? and what did he say ? What place was Bethabara where John was? What sight caused John to call Jesus the Lamb of God? How was Jesus like the lambs going up to Jerusalem to be sacrificed? What was He on his way to? What did John say next, still pointing to Jesus? verses 30, 31. What record did John bare? that is, to what true thing did he witness? verse 32. What sign had John seen by which he knew the Messiah? Who followed Jesus? What happened? XXIV.-page 102. How do we know these men were anxiously seeking to know the truth? What did they receive in answer to their question, “Master, where dwellest thou?" Did they stay any time with Jesus? Who were these two disciples? What did our Lord show by giving Simon the name of Peter? What did Simon not know? What does God hide from us in kindness? What happened the next day? Did Philip obey? What did Philip hasten to do? What did he say to Nathanael? What do we see from these words of his ? What does even his mistake in supposing Jesus to be the son of Joseph show? What was Philip? What answer did Nathanael make? Was Philip's " Come and see," a wise answer ? Why? What did Jesus say of Nathanael ? Was Nathanael surprized? What made him still more surprized? How did he prove the simplicity of his heart? What did he cry out? What is likely that he was doing under the fig tree? What words of Christ should be ever with us? What does He say to each one of us? What answer did Jesus make to Nathanael? Is there much to think of in what we have just read? What is it? To whom shall more be given? XXV.-page 107. What happened on the third day after these five disciples had joined the Lord Jesus? Were the people who gave the marriage-feast poor? Why do you think so? What did the mother of Jesus say to him, and what did He answer? Was it any disrespect to call his mother "woman?" But what did the other words of Christ shew to her? Did Mary still look to him for help? What happened? Who was the governor of the feast? Why was he surprized? What must have filled the company? Is this miracle of Christ's done slowly every year? Why did Jesus choose a marriage-feast for the beginning of his miracles? What did He show at once? In the same manner as He changed water into wine, what will He change? What did our Lord beautifully show in this miracle? How was the bridegroom rewarded for his invitation to Jesus and his disciples? Were there greater things than kindness in this miracle? What did the first miracle by Moses, in the Old Testament, change water into? What did this shew, and what was it well fitted to do? But what is this first miracle of Christ's in the New Testament, a fitting sign of? What did he bring? By him how are the waters of baptism blessed? XXVI. page 112. After the miracle of turning the water into wine, where did Jesus Who was it the custom to call a man's brethren among the Jews? What great feast was at hand? From what place did the Jews come to this feast? What sort of feast was this? What was it in remembrance of? Where did the Lord Jesus go What time was come? ? What was Jerusalem filled with? Is it likely many had already heard of him? What had been too well known to be easily forgotten? Who did he drive out of the temple? What did he drive them out with? What did he do with the sheep and oxen? What did he do with changer's money? and the tables? What did he tell them not to do? What was the temple? What authority and power did Jesus take upon himself? What had men made the temple into? What had the sacrifices made necessary ? What was it to have made the courts of the temple into the place where the sheep and oxen were sold? Was this a custom? What did our blessed Lord remember even in his anger ? What could be done with the money that was poured out? What does this teach us? What is it that makes even lawful worldly business wrong? How is this, as we cannot buy and sell in church? What should we always do, when we read the history of our Lord? Why need we not be surprized that the people did not resist Christ? What must the noise of the market-place, in the outer courts, have disturbed? To whom were the inner courts given up ? What must those of the people, who were in earnest, been glad of? What did the disciples of Jesus remember? |