I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no Savior. — Isaiah 43:11. When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.  Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a …

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God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.— Matthew 22:32. On Tuesday, in the temple, our Lord was tried and tempted a great deal by His enemies, the hardened Pharisees and Sadducees.  The latter, who said …

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Many are called, but few are chosen. — Matthew 22:14. On Tuesday morning, in the temple, Jesus also spoke the following parable to the chief priests and elders who hated Him: “The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, …

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The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. – Matthew 21:42. On Tuesday morning Jesus returned to the temple, and preached to the people assembled there the Gospel, the good tidings that He, Christ, …

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My house shall be called the house of prayer. – Matt. 21:13. On the morning after His entry into Jerusalem, Jesus, with His disciples, went from Bethany to the temple at Jerusalem.  And what did He behold?  The spacious courts …

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Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest!. – Matthew 21:9. The following day, on Sunday, Jesus arose to go to Jerusalem together with His disciples and …

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She is come aforehand to anoint my body for the burying. – Mark 14:8. Six days before the Passover, on Saturday, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.  There …

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Behold the Lamb of God! – John 1:36. Now came the Feast of the Passover.  Jesus arose and went with His disciples from Ephraim to Jerusalem by way of Jericho.  And on the road between Ephraim and Jericho He took …

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It is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. – John 11:50. Many of the Jews who had witnessed the raising of Lazarus believed in Jesus.  But some of them …

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[Note: Septuagesima means seventieth. Septuagesima Sunday is approximately seventy days before Easter.]   I am the Resurrection and the Life. – John 11:25. It was now the Passover, that time when Jesus was to suffer and die.  He was in …

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