Question: If Christ was in the grave only a part of three days, approximately 36 hours, how can we explain Matt. 12:40, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” The three days […]
LESSON XIV. Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (continued) John 5:16-24 Evoking a Confession of Sin: vss. lfi-18. With these words we have the beginning of the second phase of Jesus’ conversation with her. Go, call thy husband, etc. But didn’t Jesus know about her present, and past conditions? Of course, but this was the sore […]
Chapter II – The Pontificate Rival Competitors for the High Priesthood—The office of high priest being thus, as we have seen, a powerful and lucrative position, became the occasion of much unseemly wrangling and conspiracy. There were two families in particular that made themselves notorious by their scramble for the coveted prize. These were the […]
Introductory Remarks: Because it is impossible to finish the printing of a story of the usual size in this volume, which will run only through the month of May, the undersigned sought for, but could not obtain a short story for this department of “Beacon Lights”. Consequently, he presents to our readers this short history […]