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Saturday
The First
Lesson
Daniel 2:1-6, 10-13
1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar
dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep
brake from him.
2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers,
and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his
dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my
spirit was troubled to know the dream.
4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriac, O king, live
for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone
from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the
interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses
shall be made a dunghill.
6 But if ye show the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye
shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore
show me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is
not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter: therefore
there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at
any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
11 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there
is none other that can show it before the king, except the gods,
whose dwelling is not with flesh.
12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded
to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
13 And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain;
and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
1st Lesson Questions -
I been one of the "wise men", what would I have done? Would I have run away? RESOLVE.
The Second
Lesson
Acts 20:1-16
1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples,
and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much
exhortation, he came into Greece,
3 And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for
him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return
through Macedonia.
4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of
the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe,
and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
5 These going before tarried for us at Troas.
6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened
bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode
seven days.
7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came
together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart
on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they
were gathered together.
9 And
there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being
fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he
sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and
was taken up dead.
10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said,
Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread,
and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so
he departed.
12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little
comforted.
13 And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending
to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to
go afoot.
14 And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came
to Mitylene.
15 And we sailed thence, and came the Next
day over against Chios;
and the Next
day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium;
and the Next
day we came to Miletus.
16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would
not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible
for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Should Eutychus be canonized as the patron saint of long sermons or open windows? (v. 9) RESOLVE.