Matthew 15: Warm-Up Questions
January 23, 2023 in Today's Discussion by TGV
Bible Study Guide/ Matthew 15, (40-BSG-15I)/ What questions or insights do you have about this chapter?
- While Jesus and his disciples were in the land of Gennesaret, what two groups of people came from Jerusalem, and what did they say his disciples transgressed? (1-2)
- In what way did Jesus’ disciples transgress the elders’ traditions according to the Scribes and Pharisees of Jerusalem? (2)
- According to Jesus, the Scribes and Pharisees transgressed what by their tradition? (3)
- How had the Scribes and Pharisees made the Commandment of God of no effect by their tradition? (5-6)
- What did Jesus call the Scribes and Pharisees who made the commands of God of no effect by their tradition? (7)
- According to Jesus, what defiles a man? (11)
- Who took offense at Jesus’ teaching of defilement of God’s commands? (12)
- What is the fate of the plant other than the one planted by the Heavenly Father? (13)
- What is the fate of both the blind and the leaders of the blind? (19)
- How can “eating with unwashed hands” defile a person? (20)
- While Jesus was in Tyre and Sidon, who came to Him, and with what was her daughter tormented? (21-22)
- Who asked Jesus to send the woman of Canaan away because she cried after them? (23)
- What prompted this response: “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (24) And what does this mean?
- Jesus said to the Canaanite woman, “It is not right to waste the children’s bread by feeding dogs.” (25-26) What does this mean?
- When the Canaanite woman was willing to eat “the crumbs from the master’s table,” what did Jesus say of her faith? (27-28)
- How soon was the Canaanite woman’s daughter healed? (28)
- After the encounter with the Syro-Phoenician woman, Jesus withdrew from the district of Tyre and Sidon. Why? (29)
- Where did Jesus go, and what happened there? (30) What groups were brought to Jesus, and for what purpose?
- What was “the great multitude’s” attitude after seeing the healing power of Jesus? (31) Whom did they glorify?
- How many days had the multitude been without food when the disciples told Jesus there were seven loaves and a few fish? (32-35)
- How many men, besides women and children, ate from Seven loaves and a few little fishes and were filled? (38)
- How much food remained after the 4,000 men were fed from seven loaves and a few fish? (37)
- After feeding the 4,000 men, Jesus took a ship to the coasts of where? (39)
Comments