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FEBRUARY 11
Proverbs 8:1–5
8 Does not wisdom cry out,
And understanding lift up her voice?
She takes her stand on the top of the
2 26:11 For you have the poor with you
high hill, always. Jesus certainly was not disparaging
Beside the way, where the paths meet. ministry to the poor—especially so soon after
She cries out by the gates, at the entry (see 25:35,36). However, He revealed here that
3 the lesson of the sheep and goats judgment
of the city, there is a higher priority than any other earth-
At the entrance of the doors: ly ministry, and that is worship rendered to
“To you, O men, I call, Him. This would be an utter blasphemy for
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And my voice is to the sons of men. anyone less than God, so yet again He was
O you simple ones, understand implicitly affirming His deity.
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prudence,
And you fools, be of an
understanding heart.
the poor with you always, but Me you do not
Matthew 26:1–25 have always. For in pouring this fragrant oil on
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My body, she did it for My burial. Assuredly, I
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Now it came to pass, when Jesus had
26 finished all these sayings, that He said say to you, wherever this gospel is preached
to His disciples, “You know that after two in the whole world, what this woman has done
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days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will will also be told as a memorial to her.”
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be delivered up to be crucified.” Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot,
went to the chief priests and said, “What are
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you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?”
And they counted out to him thirty pieces of
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silver. So from that time he sought opportu-
26:2 Passover. This was God’s chosen time for nity to betray Him.
Christ to die.He was the antitype to which the 17 Now on the first day of the Feast of the
Passover Lamb had always referred.Christ had Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Je-
always avoided His enemies’ plots to kill Him sus, saying to Him, “Where do You want us to
(Luke 4:29,30;John 5:18;10:39),but now it was prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
His time. The true Lamb of God would take 18 And He said, “Go into the city to a certain
away the sin of the world (John 1:29). man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My
time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at
your house with My disciples.” ’ ”
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Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the 19 So the disciples did as Jesus had directed
elders of the people assembled at the palace of them; and they prepared the Passover.
the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, and 20 When evening had come, He sat down
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plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him. with the twelve. Now as they were eating, He
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5 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there said, “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will
be an uproar among the people.” betray Me.”
And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house 22 And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and
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of Simon the leper, a woman came to Him each of them began to say to Him, “Lord, is it I?”
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having an alabaster flask of very costly fra- 23 He answered and said, “He who dipped his
grant oil, and she poured it on His head as He hand with Me in the dish will betray Me. The
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sat at the table. But when His disciples saw it, Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of
they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of
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For this fragrant oil might have been sold for Man is betrayed! It would have been good for
much and given to the poor.” that man if he had not been born.”
10 But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to 25 Then Judas, who was betraying Him,
them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she answered and said, “Rabbi, is it I?”
has done a good work for Me. For you have He said to him, “You have said it.”
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DAY 11: How does Moses’ veiled face represent the inadequacy of the Old Covenant?
The first time on Mount Sinai (Ex.24:12–32:14),unlike the second time (34:29–35),had not left
Moses with a face which was reflecting some radiance associated with being in the presence of the
Lord for an extended period of time.
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