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The Book of Luke
Who is Luke writing to? (Luke 1:3)
Why is Luke writing this account? (1:4)
What is the name of the priest and his wife, mentioned in Luke 1:5?
Were they good people? (1:6)
What was the problem with the wife, and the husband? (1:7)
Where was this priest working, and how was he chosen for the task? (1:8)
What were the people doing at the time of the incense offering? (1:10)
At this time, who appears to the priest, and where was he standing? (1:11)
The priest was obviously frightened by this, but what words of assurance and promise are spoken to him? (1:13)
What name shall be given to the child, born of the promise? (1:13)
What will this child be like, and what will fill him? (1:15)
Whose spirit and power will fill this child? (1:17)
How would you summarize this child’s purpose in life? (1:17)
When Zechariah questions the angel, how does the angel respond? Who is he? (1:19)
What will happen to Zechariah because he questioned what the Lord had spoken to him? ( 1:20)
What did the waiting people realize when Zechariah finally came out to them?
(1:22)
What happened to Elizabeth, and how long was she in seclusion? (1:24)
How does Elizabeth feel about what has happened to her? (1:25)
When was the angel Gabriel sent on his next mission? (1:26)
Where, and to whom, was Gabriel sent? (Luke 1:26-27)
What was the name of the woman’s fiancé? Whose house was he descended from? (1:27)
How does the angel greet the young woman? (1:28)
She, too, was confused about why the angel had appeared to her. What does Gabriel say to her, to ease her mind? (1:30)
What will happen to Mary, and what will she name her son? (1:31)
What will this son be called? (1:32)
What will the Lord God give to the son born to Mary? (1:32)
When will his Kingdom end? (1:33)
Mary asks how this can happen to her, since she is still a virgin. What does the angel tell her will give birth to her child? (1:35)
What will her son be called? (1:35)
What does the angel say, to help prove to Mary that these things shall be fulfilled? (1:36)
What is the great affirmation of Luke 1:37?
Now, what is Mary’s response to what has happened to her? (1:38)
Who did Mary go to visit, in order to confirm what the angel had told her? (1:40)
What happened when this woman heard Mary’s voice? (:41)
Who does Elizabeth say is blessed? (1:42)
In response, Mary says some very special words. These verses, Luke 1:46-55 are known as “The Magnificat,” because it begins with the words, “My soul magnifies the Lord.” Mary must have known her Bible (The Old Testament) pretty well. She is repeating what another woman said many centuries before, when this lady was blessed with a miraculous birth. Who was this woman from the Old Testament?
(I Samuel 2:1)
How long did Mary stay with Elizabeth? What happened at the end of that time? (Luke 1:56-57)
What name did the community want to give to Elizabeth’s son? (1:59)
What did Elizabeth say he should be called? (1:60)
The neighbors weren’t happy about this, and tried to get Zechariah involved in the naming of the child. Since he still couldn’t talk, what did he do to show his desire for his son? (1:63)
What happened to Zechariah after he wrote these words? (1:64)
What did everyone ponder? (1:66) (compare with Luke 2:19)
Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied about the Messiah! How does he describe him? (1:69)
What has God remembered? (1:72-73)
Who will be prepare the way for him? (1:76)
What will the new dawn from heaven bring? (1:79)
Where did this child, John, grow strong in the spirit? (1:80)
Who decreed that all the world should be registered? (2:1)
Who was the governor of Syria at this time? (2:2)
Where did Joseph go? Why? (2:4)
Who went with him? (2:5)
While they were in this place, Mary had her baby. What did she wrap him in, and where did she place him? (2:7)
At this time, who was living in the fields? (2:8)
Who appeared to them? (2:9)
What did the angel say? (2:10)
Who is the Savior born for? (2:11)
Suddenly, an angelic army filled the sky! What were their words? (2:14)
When the angels departed, the shepherds went to Bethlehem to check this whole thing out! Who did they find there? (2:16) (compare Matthew 2:11....who did the wise men find?)
At the proper time, this child was circumcised and named. What name was he given? (2:21)
What did the couple offer as a sacrifice to the Lord? (2:24)
Note: Because of what they offered, we believe that Mary and Joseph were quite poor financially. Read Leviticus 12:8 to confirm this.
Luke 2:25 - 4:44
What is the name of the righteous man, who has been waiting for the consolation of Israel? (Luke 2:25)
What has the Holy Spirit revealed to him? (2:26)
When this man lifts the baby in his arms, he praises God and says something about how he could now spend the rest of his life. In what condition will he leave in? (2:29)
FYI: This is a very famous phrase, known for many centuries by its Latin name: The Nunc Dimittis (meaning, “Now let me depart”)
What will this child be? (2:32)
Simeon then blesses Mary and Joseph and gives a warning to Mary. What is the last part of the warning, or prophecy? (2:35)
There is also an old woman, a prophetess, in the Temple at this time. What is her name? (2:36)
Does she often visit the Temple? (2:37)
What does she do when she sees the baby Jesus in the Temple? (2:38)
Where do Mary and Joseph now go? (2:39)
How does the child grow? (2:40)
What festival did Jesus’ parents always go to Jerusalem for? (2:41)
How old is Jesus when his parents take him to the festival? (2:42)
When Jesus does not show up on the journey home, where do Mary and Joseph eventually find him? (2:46)
How long do they look for him, before they find him? (2:46)
When Mary admonishes him for worrying she and Joseph, what does Jesus say?
(2:49)
What does Mary do with all these thoughts? (2:51)
How does Jesus grow? (2:52) (compare this with the growth of Samuel in I Samuel 2:26)
Where is John when the word of God comes to him? (3:2)
What does he proclaim? Which prophet is he echoing? (3:3-4)
Does John have nice things to say to the crowds that come to him? What does he call them? (3:7)
What is God able to raise up from stones? (3:8)
When the crowd asks what they should do to avoid the fatal judgment that awaits them, what does John tell them to do? (3:11)
How about the tax collectors? (3:13)
How about the soldiers? (3:14)
The people wonder if John is the Messiah or not. In response, what does John say he is not worthy to do for the Messiah when he does arrive? (3:16)
What will be in the Messiah’s hand? (3:17)
Who has John arrested and thrown in prison? Why? (3:19-20)
What happens when Jesus is baptized, and is praying? (3:21-22)
What does the voice from heaven say about Jesus? (3:22)
How old is Jesus when he begins his work? (3:23)
Who far back does Luke trace the genealogy of Jesus? (3:38)
(FYI and a question: compare this with Matthew 1:2, which traces the genealogy back to Abraham; why might Luke have gone farther back than Matthew?)
After Jesus is baptized, and is described as being full of the Holy Spirit, what happens to him? (4:2)
What is Jesus’ answer to the devil’s first temptation, about turning stones into bread? (4:4)
What is Jesus’ answer to the devil’s second temptation, about receiving all power and authority from the devil? (4:8)
What is Jesus’ answer to the devil’s third temptation, about throwing himself down from the top of the Temple and letting the angels catch him? (4:12)
When the devil departs, what will he be waiting for? (4:13)
Where does Jesus go now? (4:14)
Where does he teach, and how do people feel
about him? (4:15)
When he reads the scroll from the prophet Isaiah, in his hometown synagogue, what does he say about the scripture he has just read? (4:21)
What does Jesus tell them about their lack of acceptance of him? (4:24)
What Old Testament prophets are mentioned by Jesus at this time? Are these comforting words to the hometown people, or words of warning and judgment? (4:25-27)
What do the people of Nazareth try to do to Jesus? (4:29)
How does he get away? (4:30)
Where does Jesus go now? (4:31)
Why are the people astonished at his teaching? (4:32)
What does Jesus have an encounter with in the synagogue? (4:33)
Does this threat to Jesus know who he is? (4:34)
How does Jesus rebuke this demon? (4:35)
Who is sick in Simon’s (Simon Peter’s) house? (4:38)
What does she do immediately after she is healed? (4:39)
As the sun is setting, who is brought to Jesus? (4:40)
What do the demons shout? (4:41)
Does Jesus allow them to say this publicly? (4:41)
The next day, where does Jesus go? (4:42)
The crowds found Jesus, and begged him to stay and help them. What does Jesus say he must do? (4:43)
Luke 5:1-6:49
Where is Jesus standing when the crowd presses in on him, wanting to hear more about the word of God? (Luke 5:1)
Whose boat does Jesus get into? (5:3)
After Jesus teaches the crowd, from the boat, from shallow water, what does he ask of the owner of the boat? (5:4)
What is Simon’s response? (5:5)
Do they catch anything? (5:6)
What does Simon ask of Jesus, and why? (5:8)
Who are partners with Simon in the fishing business? (5:10)
What does Jesus say to Simon? (5:10)
Is it just Simon who follows Jesus? (5:11)
Jesus heals a man in Luke 5:12-13. What is wrong with the man?
Who does Jesus tell the man to go and see? (5:14)
Jesus had told the man not to tell anyone that Jesus had healed him, but he must have, according to Luke 5:15. Who does 5:15 say came to Jesus?
What does Jesus do, after a long day of healing and teaching? (5:16)
With a large crowd of people watching, including a group of Pharisees, who is brought for healing to Jesus? (5:18)
How do this man’s friends bring him face to face with Jesus? (5:19)
What does Jesus say, when he sees the faith of these people? (5:20)
The Pharisees are appalled at what Jesus says. What do they say? (5:21)
Why does Jesus also heal the man’s body, telling him to get up and walk? (5:24)
What is the crowd’s response to all these things? (5:26)
Who is the next disciple that Jesus calls? (5:27)
This man throws a big party for Jesus, in his own house. Who all is invited to the party? (5:29)
The Pharisees question the wisdom of Jesus being in this place, at this time. What does Jesus say to them about why he is there? (5:31)
What are the two sayings that Jesus gives in Luke 5:38-39? What do they mean, do you think?
When Jesus is confronted by the Pharisees about eating plucked grain on the Sabbath, what figure from Israel’s history does Jesus refer to to defend his disciples? (6:3)
Who is lord of the Sabbath? (6:5)
When Jesus is continually frustrated by the Pharisees strict interpretation of the Law, what does he ask them about the Sabbath? (6:9)
After Jesus heals the man’s withered hand, on the Sabbath, what do the Pharisees discuss with one another? (6:11)
After spending a night in prayer to God, Jesus called the disciples together and chose 12 of them to be his immediate followers. What are the names of the 12 disciples?
Where does Jesus stand when he teaches the crowds and his disciples? (6:17)
Why is the crowd trying to touch Jesus? (6:19)
Who is blessed in 6:20?
Who is blessed in 6:21? (two groups of people)
Who is blessed in 6:22?
These are Luke’s version of the Beatitudes. But Luke does something different now, and adds some woes!
Who are some of those whom Jesus gives “woes” to? (6:24-26)
Who are we to love? (6:27)
What do you think of Jesus’ words in Luke 6:28-31?
If we can do what Jesus asks of us, what will we be? (6:35)
What aren’t we to do? (6:37)
What are we to do? (6:37-38)
Does Jesus think that we all have problems we need to admit to? (6:41-42)
What is each tree known for? (6:44)
If we call Jesus, “Lord, Lord,” and don’t do what he says, what are we like? (6:49)
Luke 7:1-8:56
Whose slave is ill and close to death in Luke 7:2?
The Jewish elders ask Jesus to help this man. Why? (7:5)
What amazing request is asked of Jesus, before he even gets to the man’s home? (7:7)
What does Jesus think of this man’s faith? (7:9)
Is the slave healed? (7:10)
Where does Jesus go next? (7:11)
What is happening in this scene? (7:12-13)
How does Jesus feel about this woman? (7:13)
What powerful thing does Jesus do? (7:14-15)
How do the people respond? (7:16)
What does John the Baptist want to know about Jesus? (7:19)
When John’s disciples ask Jesus this question, what has Jesus just finished doing? (7:21)
Does Jesus answer this question directly, or indirectly? (7:22)
What does Jesus tell the crowd about John the Baptist? (7:28)
What does he say about the least person in the kingdom of God? (7:28)
Who acknowledges the justice of God? (7:29)
Who rejects God’s purpose for their lives? (7:30)
How does Jesus describe this generation? (7:32)
Why? (7:33-34)
Where does Jesus go to eat? (7:36)
Who arrives at the house? What does she bring with her? (7:37)
What does she wash Jesus’ feet with? (7:38)
What does the Pharisee (Simon) think to himself? (7:39)
Jesus tells a brief story about love and forgiveness. Who will love the more? (7:43)
Jesus then compares the Pharisee’s welcome to the woman’s actions. Why does Jesus say this woman has shown great love? (7:47)
What are the wonderful, freeing words that Jesus speaks to this woman? (7:48)
What does Jesus do with the good news of the kingdom of God? (8:1)
Who are his traveling companions? (8:1-3)
What is one of the ways they help with Jesus’ ministry? (8:3)
Jesus begins to speak to the crowds in parables. The first one is the parable of the sower. When he finishes it, what imploring words does he call out to the crowd? (8:8)
Jesus goes on to explain the parable, privately, to his disciples.
What is the seed? (8:11)
What of the seed that falls on the path? (8:11)
What of the seed that falls on the rock? (8:13)
What of the seed that falls among the thorns? (8:14)
What about the seed that falls on good soil? (8:15)
What is hidden that will not someday be disclosed? (8:17)
Jesus gives a warning in Luke 8:18---what is the warning concerned with?
Who arrives, looking for Jesus? (8:19)
When the people tell Jesus that they are looking for him, what is his response? (8:21)
What is Jesus doing when a storm arises on the lake, threatening the boat he is riding in? (8:23)
What words do the disciples say to Jesus in Luke 8:24?
What does Jesus do after he wakes up? (8:24)
What is Jesus’ question to the disciples (and to us)? (8:25)
Where does Jesus go now? (8:26)
Who meets Jesus as soon as he gets off the boat? How is this person described? (8:27)
What does this man yell at Jesus? (8:28)
How has this man been affected by the unclean spirits that have seized his life? (8:29)
When Jesus asks for his name, what is the answer? (8:30)
What do the demons beg of Jesus? (8:31)
Where does Jesus “give permission” for the demons to go? (8:32-33)
What do the people of the area find when they run to see what has happened to Legion? (8:35)
What do the people ask of Jesus? (8:37)
The man who is healed asks to follow Jesus. What does Jesus tell him to do? (8:39)
When Jesus returns (to Capernaum?) the crowds are waiting for him. Who falls at Jesus’ feet, begging Jesus to heal his daughter? (8:41)
How old is the girl and what is wrong with her? (8:42)
While Jesus in on the way to help, who touches the fringe of his clothes? (8:43-44)
Is she healed? (8:44)
What is Jesus’ question, and why does he ask it? (8:45-46)
What does Jesus say to this woman? (8:48)
What sad news now reaches Jairus? (8:49)
What does Jesus say? (8:50)
Who does Jesus take with him into the house? (8:51)
What does Jesus tell the mourners that the little girl is doing? (8:52)
What does the crowd do? (8:53)
What does Jesus say to the little girl? (8:54)
Does she? (8:55)
What does Jesus order the parents not to do? (8:56)
What power does Jesus give to the Twelve? (Luke 9:1)
What is their mission? (9:2)
What did the disciples take with them? (9:3)
What are the disciples to do if they are not welcomed in a village? (9:5)
Are they successful? (9:6)
Why is Herod perplexed? (9:7-9)
What does Herod try to do? (9:9)
Where does Jesus take the disciples to privately hear about their adventures? (9:10)
Who hears about where they are and follows them? (9:11)
Jesus has compassion on the people and heals them. Toward the end of the day, what do the disciples tell Jesus to do with the people? (9:12)
What does Jesus tell the disciples to do to the people? (9:13)
What is the disciples reasonable reply? (9:13-14)
What is Jesus’ faithful, and organizational, command? (9:14)
What does Jesus to do the food before he has it distributed? (9:16)
Does everyone have something to eat? (9:17)
How much is left over? (9:17)
“Once,” after Jesus has been praying, what question does he ask the disciples? (9:18)
What is their answer? (9:19)
When he asks them who they think he is, who responds, and what is his response? (9:20)
Why does Jesus tell them not to tell anyone about this? (9:22)
What must we do if we are to follow Jesus? (9:23)
What will happen if we try to save our lives? (9:24)
What will happen to those who lose their lives for Jesus’ sake? (9:24)
What is the great question in Luke 9:25?
What will happen if we are ashamed of Jesus or his words? (9:26)
Whose glory will the Son of Man appear in? (9:26)
What will happen to some of those people listening to Jesus? (9:27)
How much time passes before Jesus takes the “Big Three” with him up on the mountain to pray? (9:28)
Who are the “Big Three,” the inner circle of the disciples? (9:28)
What happened to Jesus as he was praying? (9:29)
Who appears to him, and talk with him? (9:30)
What do they talk about? (9:31)
What happens to the Big Three as Jesus and Moses and Elijah talk? (9:32)
When he regains his senses, what does Peter say to Jesus? (9:33)
What covers all of them as they stand on the mountaintop? (9:34)
What words are spoken from the cloud? (9:35)
Do the disciples tell anyone, right then, about what they see and experience? (9:36)
Who meets Jesus and the disciples after their mountaintop experience? (9:37)
What kind of help does a man seek? (9:38-39)
Who was not able to help the man? (9:40)
Is Jesus happy to help, or is he frustrated? (9:41)
Does Jesus agree to help? Where is the boy to be brought? (9:41)
What does the demon do to the boy when he sees Jesus? (9:42)
How would you describe Jesus’ reaction to the demon? Scared? Calm? Confident? Who wins this confrontation: Jesus or the demon? (9:42)
The crowd is marveling at this miracle. As they continue in their astonishment, what does Jesus say to his disciples? (9:44) (Why do you think he chose this time to say this?)
Do the disciples understand what Jesus is telling them? (9:45)
What argument breaks out among the disciples? (9:46)
Who does Jesus set in their midst, as an example of how they themselves should be? (9:47-48)
When John questions Jesus about other people using Jesus’ name to cast out demons, what response does Jesus give? (9:50)
Where does Jesus decide to go now, “as the days draw near for him to be taken up?” (9:51)
Why don’t the people in a Samaritan village welcome Jesus? (9:53)
What do the disciples want to do to that village? (9:54)
Does Jesus let them do it? (9:55)
A man wants to follow Jesus. Where does the Son of Man lay his head? (9:58)
When Jesus said this, do you think the man still followed him? (Your own thoughts)
What hard saying does Jesus give another man in 9:60?
Do you think Jesus wants followers, considering his responses in 9:57-62? Or is he looking for a certain type of follower?
Luke 10:1-11:53
How many people does Jesus send out before him, to prepare the way for his visits? (Luke 10:1)
What famous words about the mission field does Jesus speak to his disciples at this time? (10:2)
How is Jesus sending these people out? (10:3)
Should the “missionaries” stay in one house, or in many? (10:7)
If a village welcomes them, what are the disciples to say? (10:9)
Why are Chorazin and Bethsaida mentioned as places of “woe?” (10:13)
What about Capernaum? Will it be lifted up, or brought low? (10:15)
When the seventy return and tell Jesus how well they did, what does Jesus say to them? (10:18)
What authority has been given to the disciples? (10:18)
What are the disciples to rejoice about? (10:20)
Jesus then thanks the Father for something...what is it? (10:21)
Who knows who the Son is? (10:22)
Why are the disciples blessed? (10:24)
What does a lawyer want to know? (10:25)
What is Jesus’ response? (10:26)
What does the lawyer say? (10:27)
Does Jesus say this is enough to inherit eternal life? (10:28)
Pressing Jesus, what does the lawyer ask? (10:29)
What story does Jesus now tell? The parable of __________________(10:30-35)
What does Jesus ask of the lawyer in Luke 10:36?
What answer does the lawyer give? (10:37)
Who welcomes Jesus into her home? (10:38)
Who is this woman’s sister? (10:39)
What does this sister do? (10:39)
What is Martha distracted by? (10:40)
Upset, what does Martha ask Jesus? (10:40)
Does Martha get the answer from Jesus that she is hoping for? (10:41)
What has Mary chosen? (10:42)
What do the disciples want to know how to do? (11:1)
Jesus teaches the disciples the Lord’s Prayer. Read this through and make it your prayer. (11:2-4)
Does this prayer include everything we think of as the Lord’s Prayer?
Why does Jesus say a man’s plea to his neighbor will be answered? (11:8)
Complete the following: (Luke 11:9)
Ask and
_____________________________________________
Seek and
____________________________________________
Knock and
___________________________________________
If even evil people can give good things to our children, what will God give to us when we ask? (11:13)
When Jesus heals a mute person, what do some of the people say about how Jesus heals? (11:15)
Jesus defends himself with wonderful logic and challenges them, too. What does he say in Luke 11:20?
What is Jesus’ warning in Luke 11:23?
When a demon leaves a person, can it return? (11:24-26)
When a women blesses Jesus’ mother, whom does Jesus say should really be blessed? (11:28)
As the crowds increase in their following of Jesus, how does Jesus describe them? Why? (11:29) What sign will the people get? (11:29)
Who will rise at the judgment and condemn this people? (11:31 & 11:32)
Something here is greater than who? (11:31 & 11:32)
Where does one put a lamp? (11:33)
What is the lamp of the body? (11:34)
Jesus makes interesting comments about the state of the eye: whether it be healthy or not. A healthy eye brings what into the body? (11:34)
An unhealthy eye brinks what into the body? (11:34)
What are the Pharisees amazed to see as they dine with Jesus? (11:38)
What does Jesus say is the most important thing: the outside or the inside? (11:39-41)
The Pharisees tithe their herbs and things, Jesus says, but what do they neglect? (11:42)
What does Jesus say that the Pharisees love? (11:43)
What are the Pharisees like? (11:44)
Besides the Pharisees, who takes offense at Jesus’ words? (11:45)
What does Jesus say about this group of people? (11:46)
What do these people build? (11:47)
Who does Jesus say is speaking in Luke 11:49?
Who will be charged with the blood of the all the prophets, from Abel to Zechariah? (11:51)
Where does this Zechariah die? (11:51)
What have the lawyers taken away, and not entered into themselves? (11:52)
How do the scribes and Pharisees feel about Jesus now? (11:53-54)
Luke 12-13
How closely are the crowds gathered together to hear Jesus? (Luke 12:1)
Though the crowd is all around him, Jesus addresses the disciples directly. What does he warn them about? (12:1)
Who are the disciples to fear? (12:5)
What are not forgotten in God’s sight? (12:6)
What are counted by God? (12:7)
Why should the disciples not be afraid? (12:7)
Who will the Son of Man acknowledge before the angels? (12:8)
Who will be denied before the angels? (12:9)
Who will not be forgiven? (12:10)
What will teach the disciples what to say when they have to defend themselves? (12:12)
What does someone in the crowd ask Jesus to do? (12:13)
Does Jesus want to tell him what to do? (12:14)
What are the people to be on their guard against? (12:15)
In the parable that Jesus tells, why is the rich man a fool? (12:20)
What does Jesus tell the disciples to consider? (12:24)
Is it a good use of your time to worry about things? (12:25)
What are the disciples to consider in 12:27?
What are we to strive for? (12:31)
What does the Father want to give you? (12:32)
What are we encouraged to do in 12:33?
Write down this important saying of Jesus, in 12:34:
Be dressed for ____________ and have your
lamps _______. (12:35)
What are we to be like? (12:36)
Who is blessed in 12:37?
When is the Son of Man returning? (12:40)
What is Peter’s question in 12:41?
Jesus answers with a parable, not directly answering Peter’s question. Of whom is much required? (12:48)
What has Jesus come to bring on earth? (12:49)
What does Jesus wish? (12:49)
What does Jesus say he is under, until the baptism he has is completed? (12:50)
Does Jesus come to bring peace on earth? (12:51)
If not, what does he bring? (12:52)
Jesus tells the crowds they are hypocrites. Why? (12:56)
What does Jesus urge us to do, instead of going to court? (12:58)
Some people tell Jesus about the tragic end that some Galileans came to. Does Jesus empathize with them, or challenge them? (13:2-3)
What will happen if we don’t repent? (13:5)
In the next parable, what does the man want to do to his fruitless fig tree? (13:7)
What is the fig tree wasting? (13:7)
What does the gardener suggest be done instead? (13:9)
While Jesus is teaching in the synagogue, who appears before him? What is wrong with her? (13:11)
What does Jesus say to her? (13:12)
What does the woman do after Jesus lays his hands upon her? (13:13)
Why is the leader of the synagogue upset with Jesus? (13:14) What does Jesus call the Jewish leaders? (13:15)
Who does Jesus say has bound this woman for eighteen years? (13:16)
Jesus’ opponents are put to shame by his words. What does the crowd do? (13:17)
What is the kingdom of God like? (13:19)
What is the kingdom of God to be compared to? (13:21)
In response to a question about “who will be saved,” what is Jesus response? What should we strive to enter? (13:24)
Will there be a lot of people who try to get into heaven, and cannot. (13:24)
What will there be when the people are kept out of the kingdom of God, and yet see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the prophets there? (13:28)
Where will the people come from who will enter into the kingdom of God? (13:29)
Who will be first? (13:30)
Who will be last? (13:30)
A Pharisee comes to Jesus and warns him that he is in danger. Who does the man say Jesus should run away from? (13:31)
What word does Jesus use to describe his pursuer? (13:32)
When will Jesus finish his work? (13:32)
Where is it impossible for a prophet to be killed? (13:33)
Luke 13:24 invokes a double subject...”Jerusalem, Jerusalem.” What does Jesus wish had happened to Jerusalem, but it did not happen? 13:34)
In the Old Testament, David gives a heart-felt lament that also has a double subject. What is it? (II Samuel 18:33)
When will Jerusalem see Jesus again? (13:35)
Luke 14
What is the issue that Jesus confronts in Luke 14:3?
According to the parable in Luke 14:7-12, where does Jesus say you should sit if you are to receive recognition and honor?
Who does Jesus say should not be invited to luncheons? (14:12)
Who should be invited? (14:13)
Why will you blessed if you invite them? (14:14)
In a story that Jesus tells, why don’t people come to the great dinner that they were invited to? What did they have? (14:18)
Will any of those invited to the dinner enjoy it? (14:24)
Who cannot be Jesus’ disciple? (14:26)
Again, who cannot be Jesus’ disciple? (14:27)
What must we give up in order to be Jesus’ disciples? (14:33)
Is salt good for anything if it has lost its taste? (14:34-35)
Jesus tells some wonderful parables in Luke 15....what is he responding to when he tells these stories? (15:-1-2)
What is lost in 15:4?
What is the point of this parable? (15:7)
What is lost in 15:8?
What is the point of this parable? (15:10)
Do you think the Pharisees are beginning to get the point? If not, Jesus will make sure they do with the next story!
What is lost in 15:13?
What happens when the boy gets in sight of his home? (15:20)
What is the point of this story? (15:24)
Who isn’t happy about the return of the Prodigal Son? (15:25)
What is the further point of the parable? (15:32)
In the parable of the dishonest manager, why does the manager go and change what everyone owes his master? (16:3-4)
Why did the master commend the manager? (16:8)
If a person is faithful in a very little, what will he also be faithful at? (16:10)
If a person is dishonest in a very little, what will he also be dishonest at? (16:10)
Who can serve two masters? (16:13)
What is the point of this? (hint: it has to do with money) (16:13)
Why did the Pharisees ridicule Jesus over all these sayings? (16:14)
Who knows their hearts? (16:15)
What does God think of the things we think are so important? (16:15)
Does the kingdom of God that Jesus proclaims do away with the law and the prophets? (16:17)
There are some hard sayings here on divorce, re-marriage, and adultery. These are hard because some of us have been divorced and are re-married. What do you think about these things? (16:18)
Who are the two people involved in Jesus’ next parable? How are they described? (16:10-20)
What happens to the poor man? (16:22)
What happens to the rich man? (16:22-23)
What does the man in Hades ask of Father Abraham? (16:24)
Does Abraham grant his request? (16:25)
Can we get from one side of the hereafter to the other? (16:26)
What does the man in Hades then ask of Abraham? (16:27-28)
Who does Abraham say the remaining family members should listen to? (16:29)
Why does the man in Hades think sending Lazarus is a good idea? (16:30)
Does this convince Father Abraham? Why or why not? (16:31)
Are you in trouble if you cause little ones to be led astray or to stumble? (17:2)
If a brother or sister in Christ repents, what must we do? (17:3)
What do the apostles ask of Jesus? (17:5)
What is Jesus’ response? (17:6)
What is the point of the Luke 17:7-10? (Might it have to do with regarding service an thing of obedience, rather than as a thing we think we ought to be rewarded for?)
Who comes to Jesus as he enters a village in 17:12?
What does Jesus tell them to do? (17:14)
What does one of them do, after seeing that he has been healed? (17:15)
Was this man a Jew or a Samaritan? (17:16)
What does Jesus say has made him well? (17:19)
When the kingdom of God, will it be something that can be observed? (17:20)
Indeed, Jesus says, where is the kingdom of God? (17:21)
Should disciples run here and there whenever somebody thinks the kingdom of God is coming? (17:23)
The Son of Man will come, but first what must happen? (17:25)
Who does Jesus compare the days of the Son of Man with? (17:26-28)
How will it be on the day that the Son of Man returns? (17:29)
Will it come quickly or will their be a warning time? (17:31)
Who does Jesus tell us to remember? (17:32)
What will happen if you love your life so much that your only concern is to secure it with things? (17:33)
If two people are doing something, and one is taken, what will happen to the other one? (17:34-35)
Does your Bible have 17:36 in it?
What is the ominous saying in Luke 17:37?
What is the next parable about? (18:1)
What is the point of the parable? (18:7)
What is Jesus’ haunting question in 18:8?
In the next parable, who are the two people who go up to the temple to pray? (18:10)
How does the Pharisee pray? (18:11-12)
How does the other man pray? (18:13)
Which man’s prayer is answered? (18:14)
What were people bringing to Jesus in 18:15?
Are the disciples happy about this? (18:15)
What are Jesus’ wonderful words in 18:16?
How must we receive the kingdom of God? (18:17)
What does a certain ruler ask of Jesus? (18:18)
Jesus tells him to keep the commandments. When he says he does, what does Jesus say he should do now? (18:22)
Why did the ruler become very sad? (18:23)
Will it be easy for the rich to enter the kingdom of God? What will be easier? (18:24-25)
What do the people ask in 18:26?
How does Jesus respond? (18:27)
Peter speaks up, on behalf of the disciples. It seems like he is getting the idea that things are slipping away from them. Are things slipping away, or will there be rewards to come? (18:29-30)
When Jesus takes the Twelve aside to tell them of his purpose in going to Jerusalem, and to die, and be raised again....do they understand it? (18:34)
In fact, why did they not understand these things that we think they should have understood? (18:34)
Where was Jesus when a blind man called out to him? (18:35)
What does the man shout? (18:38)
What do the people in the front row try to do? (18:39)
Does this stop the blind man? (18:39)
What is Jesus’ strange question to the blind man? (18:41)
What is the man’s response? (18:41)
Jesus heals the man and the man follows him. The people all praise God. Isn’t it interesting that this man’s blind faith is stronger than the seeing faith of the disciples? It makes you wonder who is blind, and who can see!
Luke 19-21
Who is the very wealthy tax collector that lives in Jericho? (19:2)
What does he want to do? Why can’t he? (19:3)
What does this man do in order to see Jesus? (19:4)
Does Jesus notice him? What does he say he will do with this man? (19:5)
This man is happy to welcome Jesus into his home. But what do the rest of the people do? (19:7)
What are some of the signs that Zacchaeus has changed his life? (19:8)
What has come to Zacchaeus’ house? (19:9)
Why did the Son of Man come to earth? (19:10)
What do the the people think is about to appear, since Jesus is near to Jerusalem? (19:11)
Jesus tells a parable about a man who gave authority to some of his servants. What do some of the servants do with the money given to them? (19:16, 18, 20)
What is the point of the parable? (19:26)
Where is Jesus going up to? (19:28)
What are the two villages on the Mount of Olives that Jesus comes to? (19:29)
What does Jesus tell the disciples to get? (19:30)
When the disciples are asked why they are taking this, what are they to reply? (19:31, 34)
What do the people throw in front of Jesus as he rides into Jerusalem? (19:36)
What do the multitudes of disciples say? (19:38)
When the Pharisees chastise Jesus for this, what does Jesus say to them? (19:40)
As Jesus looks over Jerusalem, what does he do? (19:41)
Because the people of Jerusalem do not recognize the visitation of the Lord at this time, what will happen to Jerusalem, according to Jesus? (19:43-44)
Jesus enters Jerusalem and goes immediately to the Temple. What does he do there? (19:45)
What does Jesus say the people have done to the Temple? (19:46)
What does Jesus do every day in the Temple during this week? (19:47)
Why can’t the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people find an opportunity to kill Jesus? (19:48)
While Jesus is telling the Good News in the Temple, what do his enemies ask him? (20:2)
Does Jesus answer with an answer or with a question? (20:4)
In the next parable that Jesus tells, who does the landowner finally send, thinking the people will respect him? (20;13)
In the parable, what do the people do to this representative? (20:14-15)
In return, what will the landowner do to these tenants? (20:16)
When Jesus’ listeners express astonishment at this, what scripture does Jesus ask them to interpret? (20:17) (Can you find where this scripture is in the Old Testament? You may want to find it, and read the rest of that chapter, too...quite interesting!)
What happens to anyone that falls on this stone? (20:18)
What will the stone do to those on whom it falls? (20:18)
When they heard this, what did the chief priests want to do? (20:19)
The chief priests now change their tactics. Who do they send to trip Jesus up? Why? (20:20)
What issue do these people raise with Jesus? (20:22)
How does Jesus respond? (20:25)
Amazed by his answers, what do these paid questioners become? (20:26)
Why are the Sadducees “ sad you see?” (20:27)
They try to trip Jesus up with their own questions about the resurrection (which they themselves don’t believe in!). Regarding marriage, what does Jesus say about those who are worthy of the resurrection? (20:36)
How does Jesus prove the resurrection to the Sadducees? (20:37)
Who is God the God of? (20:38)
What do you think the point of Jesus’ saying in Luke 20:41-44 is? Could it be that the people are underestimating who the Messiah really is?
Jesus warns all the people to beware of the scribes? Why? (20:46-47)
In addition to the rich people putting their gifts into the Temple treasury, who does Jesus see? (21:2)
Why has she put in more than all of the others? (21:4)
When some people talk about how beautiful the Temple and the monuments around it are, what does Jesus say will happen to these great buildings? (21:6)
The people ask Jesus for signs. What does he tell them not to do? (21:8-10)
Will “the end” immediately follow all the wars and insurrections that the people see? (21:9)
What are some of the signs that Jesus says are coming? (21:10)
What will happen before these signs occur? (21:12)
What will these things allow an opportunity for? (21:13)
Jesus advises the disciples not to have their legal defenses made up ahead of time. Why not? (21:15)
Who will betray the disciples? (21:16)
Will the disciples be loved or hated? (21:17)
Even though they die, however, what will not perish? (21:18-19)
When the people know that the desolation has come? (21:20)
What will happen to Jerusalem? For how long? (21:24)
Note: these are things about “the end times.” In various places, these are called apocalyptic saying, and have to do with eschatology. Jesus’s words are repeated in “The Revelation to John.”
Where will some of these signs be? (21:25)
Why will the people faint and fear? (21:26)
What great sign will the people see? (21:27)
What should the faithful do when they see this? Why? (21:28)
What will not pass away until all these things have taken place? (21:32)
Write down the great words of Jesus, found in Luke 21:33.
What should our hearts not be weighed down with in this life? (21:34)
Who will this great day come upon? (21:35)
What should we be praying for? (21:36)
Where did Jesus go every night of this week? (21:37)
What would all the people do in the morning hours? (21:38)
Luke 22 - 24
What is near? (Luke 22:1)
Who enters into Judas Iscariot? (22:3)
What does Judas talk to the chief priests and other officers about? (22:4)
Do they want his help? (22:5)
What is to be sacrificed on the Feast Unleavened Bread? (22:7)
Who does Jesus send to prepare the Passover meal? (22:8
When they ask him where they should go to prepare the meal, what does Jesus say they should look for as a guide? (22:10)
What kind of room will be used? (22:12)
Why has Jesus longed to share this meal with his disciples? (22:15-16)
What does Jesus tell the disciples to do with the cup he has blessed? (22:17)
What does the bread represent? (22:19)
What does the cup represent? (22:20)
How does Jesus identify his betrayer? (22:21)
Do the disciples know who the betrayer is? (22:23)
What do the disciples argue about now? (22:24)
What must a religious leader be like? (22:26)
Jesus does acknowledge what the disciples have done, in 22:28. Where will the disciples find themselves one day? What will they be doing? (22:30)
Who does Jesus address now? (22:31)
What will Satan do? (22:31)
What does Jesus pray for, regarding Peter? (22:32)
What is Peter’s response? (22:33)
What does Jesus prophecy about Peter? (22:34)
Jesus now asks them to remember when he sent them out on their earlier mission trip. Did they ever lack anything? (22:35)
What does Jesus say times will be like now? (22:36)
What is being fulfilled? (22:37)
What is the disciple’s response? (22:38)
Do you think this is an example of the disciple’s understanding, or misunderstanding, Jesus’ words?
Where does Jesus now go? (22:39)
Has he been there before? (22:39)
Are the disciples walking with Jesus, or what? (22:39)
Do you see how the words show the “aloneness” of Jesus at this time?
What does Jesus tell the disciples to pray for? (22:40)
How far does Jesus go from the disciples to pray himself? (22:41)
What does Jesus pray for? (22:42)
Whose will does Jesus say should be done? (22:42)
Who then appears to Jesus, and strengthens him? (22:43)
How fervently does Jesus pray? (22:44)
Does your Bible have 22:43-44?
When he returns to the disciples, what does Jesus find them doing? (22:45)
Jesus again urges the disciples to pray, and as he is speaking, who comes up? (22:47)
How does Judas intend to show the soldiers who Jesus is? (22:47)
What question do the disciples ask, when they “see what is coming?” (22:49)
What does one of the disciples do? (22:50) The Gospel of John tells us which disciple does this....who is it? (John 18:10)
Does Jesus want the disciples to fight the soldiers? (22:51)
Instead of fighting, what does Jesus do? (22:51)
Whose hour is this, and whose power? (22:53)
After Jesus is “seized” (a brutal word), where is he taken? (22:54)
Who is following, at a distance? (22:54)
Where does Peter sit while he waits? (22:55)
Who asks him if he knows Jesus? (22:56)
What does Peter say? (22:57)
Two more times, Peter denies ever knowing Jesus. As he denies Jesus for the third time, and the cock crows, who turns and looks at Peter? (22:61)
What does Peter do? (22:62)
What do the men holding Jesus now begin to do? (22:63)
What else do they do? (22:64)
Are they having fun? Do you think they have waited a long time to do this?
When the Council gathers, in the morning, what do they ask Jesus? (22:67)
Jesus says they won’t believe him, even if he told them....but he says that from now on something is going to happen. What? (22:69)
What is their question in Luke 22:70? This is the heart of the matter.
What does Jesus say to them? (22:70)
Where does the Council now take Jesus? (23:1)
They bring their charges against him, and what does Pilate ask Jesus? (23:3)
What is Jesus’s response? (23:3)
Does Pilate see any reason to harm Jesus? (23:4)
When the Council insists that Jesus be condemned, they say he has been stirring things up in Galilee. What does Pilate do with this information? (23:6-7