In today’s lesson it begins with Moses and the seventy appointed elders whom God chose to assist Moses and bear the burden of the people.
The lesson for today makes us more aware of what we should clothe ourselves with outside of what the world has to offer.
Matthew 13 explains that Jesus now teaches the crowds in parables, partly to fulfill a prophetic statement found in Psalms 78. (Matthew 13:34-35). These teachings are in context of Israel’s response to Jesus’ ministry.
In this week’s lesson we are told that Saul was introduced as the 1st king of Israel chosen by God, demanded by the people, but wasn’t the best for them.