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Study Questions for Unit Three
Sections 72 - 81
1) Learn the list of the seven
“I AM’s” of the gospel John (including statement summary and chapter:verse
references).
2) The feeding of the 5000 is
found in all four gospels. You need know
(by memory) the gospel and chapter where
it can be found in each gospel (for example, Luke 6).
3) How can Luke’s statement that
the feeding of the 5000 occurs at Bethsaida John’s statement that it occurs on
the “other side” [eastern side] of the Lake of Galilee be shown to not be a
contradiction?
4) The phrase “eight months
wages” (in the NIV) translates an original number of coins. What number and what coins?
5) At what general time of the
day does the feeding of the 5000 occur?
6) For the feeding of the 5000,
they start with some loaves and fishes.
How many loaves and of what kind?
How many fish and of what general type?
7) What much was left over? Describe both the kind of containers and the
number of the containers.
8) After the feeding of the
5000, what did the crowd want to do with Jesus (Gospel of John)? What did Jesus do right after that?
9) How far below sea level is
the (surface of) the Lake of Galilee?
10) Scholars assert that the boat
used by the disciples about 27 feet long and between 7 and 8 feet wide. How do they know these size to be fairly accurate?
11) About what time during the
night does Jesus come walking on the water?
In what “watch” and what time span would that correspond to in modern
terms?
12) After the stormy night, where
Jesus walked on the water, what area around the Lake of Galilee did the boat
eventually come to land the next morning?
13) What and where is
“Gennesarat”?
14) What is a parallel idea between
things that happen here and the healing of the woman Jesus met on the way to
heal Jairus’ daughter in Capernaum?
15) What are the four critical
questions that must be addressed in examining the account in John 6 of the
“Sermon on the Bread of Life?”
16) Why did most of the crowd
show up with Jesus the next day after the feeding of the 5000? What were they looking for?
17) In what sense is faith “a
work”?
18) To whom is the Apostle John
referring when he talked about the “Jews” in his gospel?
19) What is a “Theophany”?
20) What three impacts does sin
have on us and what are the three aspects of salvation the addresses each of
these three?
21) What is a theophany? How does this idea relate to Jesus?
22) Does TL think there is a
relationship between the Sermon on the Bread of Life and the Eucharist? In one sentence, describe that relationship.
23) Who was Charles Finney and
how has he impacted how Evangelicals think about the Sunday worship gathering
in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?
24) What were the results of
Jesus’ Sermon on the Bread of Life on those who had come to hear Jesus? What was the result upon the Twelve
disciples?
25) What are the two
possibilities to explain the suffix normally applied to Judas: Iscariot?
26) What is the relationship
between lifting hands in worship and Jesus’ disciples washing (or not washing)
their hands before eating?
27) What does “corban” mean? How is the word related to Pharisaical
hypocrisy?
28) What was the specific ethical
failure Jesus pointed out in the Pharisees related to their use of the concept
“corban”?
29) What woman did Jesus meet in
the district of Tyre and
30) What does Jesus say to the
woman about dogs and how does she respond?
31) What kind of “dogs” does
Jesus refer to in His conversation with the women?
32) How is the term often
associated with Jesus, “Christ,” primarily related to His ministry and mission
to the Jews?
33) Where is “Decapolis” and what
kind of an area is it? What does the
word “Decapolis” mean?
34) What actions (know the
complete list) does Jesus do while in the process of healing a deaf man who is
largely unable to speak in the region of Decapolis?
35) What does Ephphatha
mean? In what language?
36) Describe how the setting and
results of the feeding of the 4000 demonstrate it is a different even than the
earlier feeding of the 5000 in Galilee.
37) Who are the Pharisees and
role do they play in the development of history Judaism beyond the first
century?
38) Who are the Sadducees and
what did they believe regarding scripture?
Where do Sadducees live?
39) What kind of yeast did Jesus
warn the disciples to avoid? How did
they misunderstand Him?
40) How is the blind man at
Bethsaida healed by Jesus? What makes
this healing different from other healings we are told of in the gospels?