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Wednesday
The First
Lesson
Judges 16:15-22
15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when
thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times,
and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words,
and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath
not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto
God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will
go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she
sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come
up this once, for he hath shown me all his heart. Then the lords
of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their
hand.
19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for
a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his
head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from
him.
20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he
awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times
before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed
from him.
21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought
him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he
did grind in the prison house.
22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he
was shaven.
1st Lesson Questions -
Was Samson a religious leader? RESOLVE.
The Second
Lesson
Luke 8:40-56
40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people
gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.
41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler
of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought
him that he would come into his house:
42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and
she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had
spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed
of any,
44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and
immediately her issue of blood stanched.
45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and
they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee
and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that
virtue is gone out of me.
47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling,
and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all
the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was
healed immediately.
48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith
hath made thee whole; go in peace.
49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the
synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble
not the Master.
50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not:
believe only, and she shall be made whole.
51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go
in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother
of the maiden.
52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she
is not dead, but sleepeth.
53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called,
saying, Maid, arise.
55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and
he commanded to give her meat.
56 And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that
they should tell no man what was done.
2nd Lesson Questions -
The woman's faith made her well. Could mine? RESOLVE.