Sir Moses Montefiore was the most famous Jew in the 19th Century. Linked by marriage and business to the Rothschilds, he was knighted by Queen Victoria and renowned for his philanthropy. He had an aunt Lydia in Marseille who was a determined Jewess. One day she received a visit from J.P. Cohen, a Jewish believer. Noticing her Bible, he took it up and read Isaiah 53, then asked what she thought of it. “I should like to hear your opinion,” replied Miss Montefiore. Cohen recounts, “I told her I could unhesitatingly say that it referred to the life and death of the Messiah, and that it had been literally accomplished in the person of Jesus.” Although shaken, she invited him back, and subsequently, seeing her Savior in the Scriptures, wrote to a niece who had long prayed for her, “I now believe that Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, was ordained to be crucified to take away all our sins; and that by believing in Him we shall be saved.” —A. Bernstein, Jewish Witnesses for Christ
Today’s Reading: Exodus 10-12 Memorize: Psalm 8:4