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Matthew 23

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , on January 26, 2023|

Read Matthew Chapter 23
1. What command does Jesus give with regard to the Pharisees in Matthew 23:1-3?

2. What does Jesus say about the Pharisees in the following verses?
Matthew 23:4

Matthew 23:5

Matthew 23:6-7

3. What command does Jesus give the multitudes in the following verses?
Matthew 23:8

Matthew 23:9

Matthew 23:10

4. Copy Matthew 23:11-12. Mediate on this. Record your thoughts and impressions.

5. What woe to the scribes and Pharisees does Jesus deliver in the following verses?
Matthew 23:13

Matthew 23:14

Matthew 23:15

Matthew 23:25-26

Matthew 23:27-28

Matthew 23:29-33

6. What does Jesus say about their oaths they swear in Matthew 23:16-22?

7. What prophecy is Jesus speaking in Matthew 23:34-36?

8. Copy Matthew 23:37. Meditate on this. What is Jesus referring to? (Provide scriptures to support your answer.)

9. What do you learn from the following verses?
Psalm 17:8

Psalm 91:4

10. What prophecy does Jesus speak over Jerusalem in the final verses of this chapter?

11. How do Jesus’ words relate to the prophecy of Jeremiah 12:7?

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Matthew 22 (Part 2)

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , on January 19, 2023|

1. What was the reaction of the Pharisees according to Matthew 22:22?

2. Who were the Sadducees? What did they believe about the resurrection of the dead?

3. What question do the Sadducees pose to Jesus in Matthew 22:23-28?

4. How does Jesus respond in Matthew 22:29-32?

5. What is the reaction of the multitudes according to Matthew 22:33?

6. What question does the lawyer ask Jesus according to Matthew 22:34?

7. What is Jesus’ response in Matthew 22:37-40?

8. What question does Jesus ask the Pharisees in Matthew 22:42? How do they respond?

9. What follow-up question does Jesus ask in Matthew 22:43-45?

10. What psalm is Jesus quoting?

11. What do you learn from Matthew 22:46?

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Matthew 22 (Part 1)

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , on January 12, 2023|

Read Matthew Chapter 22
1. What is the parable that Jesus gives in Matthew 22:1-14?

2. What is the spiritual message of the parable?

3. What do you learn from the following verses?
Hosea 2:23

Acts 28:28

1 Peter 2:9-11

4. Who are the Pharisees?

5. What do you learn about the Pharisees from Matthew 22:15?

6. What question do they ask Jesus according to Matthew 22:17?

7. What does Jesus ask them in Matthew 22:18-19?

8. What do they show Him in Matthew 22:19?

9. What does He ask in Matthew 22:20? What is their response?

10. Copy Jesus statement in Matthew 22:21. Meditate on this. How might this apply to your life today?

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Matthew Chapter 21 (Part 2)

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , , on December 1, 2022|

1. What does Matthew say about the city of Jerusalem when Jesus entered?

2. What happened when Jesus entered the temple according to Matthew 21:12-13?

3. Copy Isaiah 56:7. Meditate on this. Record your thoughts and impressions.

Going deeper: How was this not a description of the Temple (Sanctuary) at the time of Jesus? What was happening in the Temple (on the Temple grounds) that Jesus was objecting to? Why?

4. Who came to Jesus in the temple? What did He do?

5. What do you learn from Matthew 21:15-16?

6. Copy Psalm 8:1-2. Meditate on this. What was Jesus’ point in quoting this to the chief priests and scribes?

7. Where does Jesus go to spend the night? How far is that from the Temple?

8. What happens in the morning when Jesus returns to the city according to Matthew 21:18-20?

9. What does Jesus tell them in Matthew 21:21-22?

10. Who comes to Jesus as He was teaching according to Matthew 21:23? What do they ask?

11. How does Jesus respond according to Matthew 21:24-25?

12. What is the response of the chief priests and elders ? Why?

13. What parable does Jesus tell in Matthew 21:28-31?

14. What is the spiritual teaching of the parable?

15. How does Jesus apply the parable to the chief priest and elders in Matthew 21:32?

16. What parable to does Jesus tell in Matthew 21:33-41?

17. What is the spiritual teaching of the parable?

18. How does Jesus apply the parable to the chief priest and elders in Matthew 21:42-44?

19. What is the reaction of the chief priests and the Pharisees (elders) according to Matthew 21:45-46?

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Matthew Chapter 21 (Part 1)

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , , on November 17, 2022| 1 Comment »

Read Matthew 21
1. Where are Jesus and the disciples in Matthew 21:1?

2. Where is Jerusalem in Israel?

3. Where was Bethphage located in relationship to the Mount of Olives? Bethany?

4. What instructions does Jesus give to two disciples in Matthew 21:2-3?

5. Why did Jesus do this according to Matthew 21:4-5?

6. Which prophet is being quoted in Matthew 21:5?

Going deeper: What is the significance of a King riding into a city on a donkey versus riding in on a horse?

7. What did the disciples do according to Matthew 21:6-7?

8. What happened next according to Matthew 21:8-9?

9. What were the people in the crowd shouting? What is the significance of these phrases?

Going deeper: What were the hallel psalms? When were they sung? How do they related to this story of Jesus entering Jerusalem?

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Matthew Chapter 20

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , , on November 3, 2022|

Read Matthew Chapter 20
1. What parable is Jesus telling in Matthew 20:1-16?

2. What is the spiritual message of the parable?

3. How can this parable be applied to our relationship with God and others?

4. Where was Jesus going according to Matthew 20:17?

5. What does Jesus tell them along the way according to Matthew 20:17-19?

6. Who comes to see Jesus according to Matthew 20:20? What are they asking for?

7. What does the mother of the sons of Zebedee ask in Matthew 20:21?

8. How does Jesus respond in Matthew 20:22-23?

9. What is the reaction of the other ten disciples according to Matthew 20:24?

10. How does Jesus respond to their reaction in Matthew 20:25-28?

11. Who was following them as they were leaving Jericho according to Matthew 20:29?

12. Who called out to them according to Matthew 20:29-30? What did they say to Jesus?

Going deeper: What was the significance of the men calling Jesus “Son of David?”

13. What is the reaction of the crowd?

14. The reaction of the two men?

15. What does Jesus say and do according to Matthew 20:32?

16. What is the response of the blind men in Matthew 20:33?

17. Copy Matthew 20:34. Meditate on this. How would the blind men have felt? The crowd? The disciples?

Going deeper: Where was ancient Jericho? First Century Jericho? What was it about Jericho in the first century that made it a place where their would be beggars (Matthew 20:30; Mark 10:46) and tax collectors (Luke 19:1)?

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Matthew Chapter 19

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , , on October 27, 2022|

Read Matthew Chapter 19
1. Where does Jesus go according to Matthew 19:1?

2. Who followed Him? What did He do?

3. What question do the Pharisees ask Jesus according to Matthew 19:3?

4. How does Jesus respond in Matthew 19:4-6?

5. What follow up question do they ask Jesus?

6. Record Jesus’ response in Matthew 19:8-9.

7. What do you learn about divorce from Deuteronomy 24:1-4?

8. How does Jesus respond when His disciples conclude based on His teaching that it is better not to marry in Matthew 19:11-12?

9. How does Paul further illuminates the issues related to marriage and divorce in 1 Corinthians 7:10-16?

10. Who is brought to Jesus according to Matthew 19:13? Why?

11. How do the disciples respond?

12. Copy Matthew 19:14. Meditate on this. Record your thoughts and impressions.

13. What question is Jesus asked according to Matthew 19:16?

14. What is Jesus’ response in Matthew 19:17?

15. What is the follow up question in Matthew 19:18?

16. What is Jesus’ response in Matthew 19:18-19?

17. How does the young man respond in Matthew 19:20?

18. What is Jesus’ response in Matthew 19:21?

19. How does the man respond according to Matthew 19:22? Why?

20. Which commandments does Jesus omit in the list He gives in Matthew 19:18-19? (See Exodus 20) What do those have to do with what Jesus told the man in Matthew 19:21?

21. What does Jesus tell His disciples in Matthew 19:23-24?

22. What is the response of the disciples according to Matthew 19:25?

23. Copy Jesus’ response from Matthew 19:26. Meditate on this. Reflect on how this truth impacts or has impacted your faith, your life.

24. What is Peter’s concern in Matthew 19:27?

25. How does Jesus respond in Matthew 19:28-20? How does this apply to us today?

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Matthew Chapter 18

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , on October 20, 2022|

Read Matthew Chapter 18
1. Where is Jesus at the opening of Matthew chapter 18? How do you know?

2. What do the disciples ask Jesus in Matthew 18:1?

3. How does Jesus respond in Matthew 18:2-5?

4. Jesus goes on in Matthew 18:6-7 being a stumbling block to others. What warning does He give?

5. What is a millstone? Describe what it may have looked like. Who used this type of execution (fastening a millstone around the neck and throwing into the sea)?

6. What do you learn from the following verses?
Proverbs 6:12-19

Romans 14:13

7. Jesus lays out a radical teaching in Matthew 18:8-9. You may recall that he made a similar point in Matthew 5:29-30. What is the point He is trying to make?

8. What further comment about the children does Jesus make in Matthew 18:10?

9. What does Jesus teach about the shepherd and the 100 sheep in Matthew 18:12-14?

10. How does Jesus relate the story of the shepherd and the sheep to the children in Matthew 18:14?

11. Describe the procedure for church discipline that Jesus lays out in Matthew 18:15-17?

12. What teaching regarding the power of the disciples on earth does Jesus give in Matthew 18:18-20? Does this extend to current day believers? Explain your position providing scriptures to support your conclusion.

13. What question does Peter ask Jesus in Matthew 18:21?

14. What is Jesus’ response in Matthew 18:22?

15. What parable does Jesus give them regarding forgiveness in Matthew 18:23-35?

16. What do you learn about forgiveness from the following verses?
Mark 11:25

Luke 17:3

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Matthew Chapter 17

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , on October 13, 2022|

Read Matthew Chapter 17
1. How much time has expires since the end of Matthew Chapter 16 according to Matthew 17:1?

2. Where does Jesus take Peter, James and John (brother of James)? Who else goes with them?

3. What happens to Jesus according to Matthew 17:2?

4. Who appears to them according to Matthew 17:3? What are they doing?

5. What do you learn about men from the Hebrew Bible who went up the mountain in the following passages:
Exodus 19:3, 20

Exodus 24:12-18

1 Kings 19:1-18

Going deeper: What parallels do you see between the events in Matthew 17:1-9 and the passages from the Hebrew Bible?

6. What does Peter say according to Matthew 17:4?

7. What happens while Peter is still speaking?

8. How do the disciples respond to what they hear in Matthew 17:6?

9. What does Jesus do? What does He say in Matthew 17:7?

10. What happens in Matthew 17:8?

11. What does Jesus tell them in Matthew 17:9?

12. What is the disciple’s reaction to Jesus’ statement in Matthew 17:9?

13. What does Jesus say about Elijah coming in Matthew 17:11-12? Who was he speaking of?

14. Who comes to Jesus in Matthew 17:14? What has happened?

15. What is Jesus’ response in Matthew 17:17-18?

16. What is the question of the disciples that they ask Jesus privately? How does He respond?

17. What do you learn about unbelief from the following scriptures:
Exodus 14:11-12

Numbers 20:12

Deuteronomy 1:29-41

2 Kings 17:14-18

Psalm 78:32-33

Psalm 106:23-25

Matthew 13:58

Mark 16:14

Romans 11:23

Hebrews 3:12-13

18. What can you conclude from the above verses about how God view unbelief and doubt among His people?

19. What does Jesus tell His disciples in Matthew 17:22? How do they respond?

20. Where does Jesus go with His disciples according to Matthew 17:24?

21. Who approaches Peter? What is his question?

22. What question does Jesus ask Peter in Matthew 17:25? How does Peter respond?

21. What is Jesus’ statement in Matthew 17:26-27?

22. Why is a temple tax only payable for Jesus and Peter?

23. What application can you make to your own life and relationship with God from Matthew 17 and Jesus’ transfiguration, Jesus’ statement on unbelief, casting out demons, and taxes?

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Matthew Chapter 16

Posted in Matthew, tagged , , on October 6, 2022|

Read Matthew Chapter 16
1. What do the Pharisees and Sadducees ask of Jesus in Matthew 16:1?

2. How does Jesus respond to the request for a sign in Matthew 16:2-4?

3. What did the disciples forget to bring with them when they came to the other side of the lake (Sea of Galilee)?

4. What does Jesus tell them in Matthew 16:6?

5. What do they disciples think Jesus is referring to according to Matthew 16:7?

6. Why is Jesus upset with them about what they were thinking according to Matthew 16:8-10?

7. What does Jesus tell them He was referring to in Matthew 16:11?

8. What region does Jesus come to according to Matthew 16:13? Where is that located? For what was it known?

9. What does Jesus ask His disciples in Matthew 16:13?

10. How did they respond according to Matthew 16:14?

11. Jesus repeats His question in Matthew 16:15. How does Peter respond in Matthew 16:16?

12. What is Jesus’ response in Matthew 16:17-19?

13. What does Jesus command His disciples in Matthew 16:20?

14. What does Jesus begin to show His disciples according to Matthew 16:21?

15. What does Peter do according to Matthew 16:22?

16. Copy Jesus’ response to Peter in Matthew 16:23. Meditate on this. Are you consistently mindful of the things of God?

16. What does Jesus tell his disciples according to Matthew 16:24-28?

 

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