"As He Said Unto You."

Having considered several five word references to sayings of the Lord Jesus Christ from the Gospel by Mark, we note in the last chapter five words to which three women listened on the Resurrection morning. The speaker was a young man, sitting on the right side of the tomb, arrayed in white (referred to in Matthew 28. as an angel). He announced the glad tidings, "He is risen," inviting them to look where the body of the Lord had been lying, and in directing them to go and tell the disciples-" He goeth before you into

Galilee," where they would see their beloved Master, he added the striking words, "As He said unto you" (see Mark 16. 7).

It is evident that the angel had knowledge of the Lord Jesus having told the disciples about preceding them into Galilee, and that with this in mind he links the words, "As He said unto you."

There is something touching in these words, "As He said unto you." One wonders if the disciples thought of the manner of the Lord Jesus, the sound of His voice, or aught else unique in Him of whom it is witnessed-" Never man so spake." Be that as it may, and instructive as it is so to reflect-especially remembering that the favoured audience in Nazareth's synagogue, who heard this Blessed One speak, "wondered at the words of grace which proceeded out of His mouth "-what we now have before us is the fact that the Lord has spoken. While we have travelled through this Gospel, we have tried, though imperfectly, to keep this in mind, and to realise that whatever the Lord Jesus said is all-important, demanding close and regular attention; for His words convey no ordinary matter. God spake in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, but this was not sufficient; so He has spoken in His Son, whose own testimony is, "I spake not from Myself: but the Father which sent Me. He hath given Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak."

May we love the sayings of the Lord Jesus, and take them into our hearts, in the light of even these words, "As He said unto you."

unknown | Dec 1936
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