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Chap. I, 1-17. Whose genealogy is here given? 18-25. Who was the mother of Jesus? Who announced his birth ?
Why was the name Jesus given to him ?
Of what use is this genealogy ?
What is the meaning of Christ ?
What is meant by espoused!
Why was Jesus called Emmanuel?
What can you relate of the author of this book, and the occasion of its being written ? See Bible Scholars Manual, pp. 206. 207.
Chap. II, 1-8. Where was the Saviour born ? In whose reiern ? Who came seeking him ?
What had induced them to make this
journey ?
What did Herod do ?
What answer did he receive ? 9-12. What again appeared, as the wise men
left Jerusalem ?
Where did the star finally stand ?
What did the wise men then do ? Did they carry word to Herod ? 13-15. Who appeared to Joseph? What did he command him ?
How long did he remain there ? 16-18. What did Herod do, when he found the wise men had returned home without giving him word ? 19-23. Upon Herod's death what was Joseph commanded to do ?
Why did he not go into Judea ? Where did he go ?
Where was Bethlehem, and for what had it heen
celebrated ?
Who were these wise men ?
What was this star ?
Why was Herod troubled by the coming of the
wise men ?
Who were the first martyrs for Christ's sake ?
Chap. Ill, 1-6. Who began in these days to preach ?
Where did he preach ?
What was the subject of his discourses ?
What is said of his food and raiment ?
Whom did he baptize ? 7-12. What persons did John severely rebuke?
Why?
Whose coming did he proclaim ? 13-17. For what purpose did Jesus come from Galilee ?
What answer did John make to him ?
What happened as Jesus went up out of the water ?
What is meant by these days, in the first verse 1
What by the vAlderness ofJudea ?
What information can you give about the locusts
John ate ?
Who were the Pharisees and Sadducees ? See B. S.
Manual, p. 130.
What was the fan mentioned in the twelfth verse ? Why did Jesus seek the baptism of John ?
Chap. IV, 1-11. What happened to Jesus soon after his baptism ? How long did he fast ?
Who then came to him ?
What was the first temptation ? How did Jesus meet it ?
What the second, and what did Jesus answer ?
What was the third, and what did he sayto the tempter ?
Who came to him after the devil left ? 12-17. What happened to John?
Where did Jesus go ?
Where did he reside ?
What did Jesus begin to preach ? 18-22. Who were the first two disciples Jesus called ?
What other two did he soon after call ? 23-25. How did Jesus spend his time in Galilee ?
Who were brought to him, and what did he
do to them ?
Who followed him ?
How do you suppose Satan appeared to Jesus ? What is meant by the holy city ? What by the pinnacle of the temple ?
What is meant by Galilee of the Gentiles? Where was Galilee % Where Decapolis ?
Chap. V, 1-12. Where did Jesus go when he
saw the multitude that surrounded him ?
What did he do there ?
What eight characters did he declare to be
blessed ?
13-16. What did he say his disciples were
like, and how did he counsel them ? 17-20. For what purpose had Jesus come ? What did he say in reference to the commandments ?
What as to their righteousness ? 21-26. How does he explain the sixth commandment ? 27-32. How does he explain the seventh? 33-37. What injunction does he give in reference to unnecessary oaths ? 38-42. How are we to treat those that injure
us? 43-48. Whom are we to love ?
What is this sermon sometimes called?
What is the meaning of Raca?
Does the injunction against swearing forbid legal
oaths ?
Who were publicans ?
Chap. VI, 1-8. In what way are we to give alms ?
What is said in reference to prayer ? 9-15. What model for prayer does the Saviour give ?
What does he say in reference to the forgiveness of trespasses ?
QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 13
16-18. What counsels does the Saviour give
in reference to fasting ? 19-24. What in reference to worldly riches? Where should we lay up treasure ? What reasons does the Saviour give for
this ? 25-34. What illustrations does he give of the
providence of God ?
In view of this, what counsels does he give
in reference to our future wants ? What should be our first business ? What were synagogues ? See B. S. Manual. Of what were the wails of many Eastern houses
made ? • What is meant by the eye being single ? "What by mammon?
How much was a cubit f With what were ovens often heated in the East?
See B. S. Manual.
Chap. VII, 1-6. What does Jesus say in reference to rash judgments ? 7-11. What encouragement does he offer to prayer ?
What illustration does he give of God's readiness to answer ? 12-14. How should we treat our fellow-men ? What two gates and ways does the Saviour describe ? 15-20. How can we discover a false prophet,
or bad man ? 21-29. Who will be disappointed of an entrance into the kingdom of God ? To whom does the Saviour liken the hearers merelv, and the doers of the word ?
Who are meant by dogs and swine, in the sixth
verse ?
What by that which is holy, and your pearls ? What is the meaning of I never knew you ? Who were the scribes ?
Chap. VIII, 1-4. What miracle did the Saviour perform when he came down from the mountain ?
5-13. What remarkable exhibition of faith was given by a centurion ?
What did Jesus do for his servant ? 14-17. What did he do for Peter's mother?
Who were brought to him in the evening ?
What prophecy did this fulfill ? 18-22. What offer did a scribe make to Jesus ?
What answer did he give him ?
What request did a disciple make, and what answer did he receive? 23-27. What happened when Jesus and his disciples had embarked upon the sea?
What miracle did he perform ? 28-34. What two persons met him as he entered the country of the Gergesenes ?
What did the devils say to him, and what did they request ?
What then took place ?
How was the city affected by the transaction ?
What account can you give of the leprosy ? F >q B. S. Manual.
What was a centurion ?
What is meant by let the dead bury their deadf
QUESTIONS Otf MATTHEW. 15
On which side of the Sea of Galilee was the country of the Gergesenes?
What is meant by being possessed tvith devils ? See B. S. Manual.
How were Eastern tombs made ?
Chap. IX, 1-8. Where did Jesus then go ?
What miracle did he perform on a man sick of the palsy ? 9. Whom did Jesus call from the receipt of
custom ? 10-13. As Jesus was eating with the company in Matthew's house, what fault was found with him ?
What answer did he make ? 14-17. What question did the disciples of John ask him ?
How did Jesus answer them ? 18-26. What request did the ruler Jairus make?
What cure did he effect on a diseased woman, as he went to the ruler's house ? What did he then do for the young maid ? 27-31. What miracle did he perform upon
two blind men ? 32-34. What upon a dumb man, possessed
with a devil ? 35-38. How was the Saviour affected by the multitude that surrounded him ? What did he say to his disciples ?
What is meant by his own city, in the first verse ? Why did they say Jesns blasphemed, when he healed
the palsied man ?
What formed an Eastern bed ?
What was the receipt of custom ?
What were Eastern bottles made of? What was a ruler?
What is meant by the hem of the garment ? How were funeral services conducted ? See B. S. Manual.
Chap. X, 1-15. What power didJesus give his twelve disciples ? What were their names ?
Whither did Jesus send them, and for what purpose ?
What provision were they to make for themselves?
How were they to conduct themselves ? 16-42. What counsels and promises did the Saviour give them, in reference to their mission ?
Who were the Samaritans ?
For what purpose was the girdle used 1
What the scrip ?
What is meant by if the house be worthy ?
Who was Beelzebub ?
What is meant by " that preach ye upon the housetops V 3
What by " he that taketh not his cross V 1
Chap. XI, 1-6. Where did Jesus go when he had sent away his disciples ? Of what had John heard ?
What inquiry did he send by two disciples
to Jesus ?
What did Jesus tell them to relate to John ? 7-15. When they were gone, what did he
say about John ? 16-24. To whom did he liken that generation,
QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 17
in its treatment of himself and John the Baptist ?
What solemn woes did he pronounce upon the cities where he had chiefly labored ? 25-30. For what did he render thanks to the Father ?
What power and knowledge had he ?
What invitations, accompanied with promises, does he give ?
What is meant by he that should come y in the third verse 1
Who is meant by Elias ?
What was sackcloth ?
What is the meaning of John's <; neither eating nor drinking 1 ," and Jesus' i; eating and drinking?" *
Who are meant by the wise and prudent ?
Who by babes f What is the Saviour's yoke ?
Chap. XII, 1-8. What did the disciples of Jesus do on the Sabbath-day ? What did the Pharisees say ?
How did the Saviour defend them ? 9-13. Whither did he go from thence ? Who was there on this occasion ? What question did the Pharisees ask him ? How did Jesus answer them ?
What did he then do for the palsied man ? 14-21. What course did the Pharisees then take?
What did Jesus do ?
What prophecy did he fulfill in this ? 22-30. What did he do for a possessed person ?
How were the people affected by the miracle?
What did the Pharisees say ?
What answer did Jesus make them ? 31, 32. What sin is unpardonable? 33-37. From whence doth all good and evil spring ?
For what shall we be called to give an account in the day of judgment ? 38-45. What sign did Jesus give to the Pharisees ?
What does he say of the men of Nineveh ?
What of the queen of the south ?
Under what figure does he. show the perversity of that generation ? 46-50. Who came while he was talking ?
Who did he say were his mother and his brethren ?
Was it because the corn was taken without liberty that the Pharisees blamed the disciples ?
What kind of labor only is lawful on the Sabbath 1
Can we commit the unpardonable sin now ?
Who was Jonas, and what can you tell about his history ?
Where was Nineveh/?
Who is meant by the queen of the South?
How may we become a brother or sister to Jesus ?
Chap. XIII, 1-23. Where did Jesus go, and
take his seat ?
Who listened to him ?
Where did he say the seeds of the sower
fell, and what happened to them? What reason did he give for speaking in
parables ?
How did the Saviour explain the parable of the sower ? 24-30. Relate the parable of the tares. 31-32. To what did he liken the kingdom of
heaven ? 33-35. What was the parable of the leaven? 36-43. How did Jesus explain the parable
of the tares ? 44-52. What was the parable of the hid treasure ?
What of the pearl of great price ? What of the net ?
What of the householder ? 53-58. Where did Jesus go from the seaside?
What did he do there ?
How was he received by the people ? What did Jesus say to them ? ~ Why did he not perform mighty works among them ?
What is a parable 1
What is meant .by the kingdom of heaven? What can you tell about the Eastern mustardplant ? See B. S. Manual.
How much was a measure ?
Who is meant by every scribe, in the fifty-second verse %
Chap. XIV, 1-12. What had Herod heard at this time ?
Whom did he suppose Jesus to be ? W'hat was the occasion of the death of John the Baptist ? 13-21. What did Jesus do when he heard of it?
How was he affected by the multitude that followed him ?
What miracle did he perform to feed them ?
22-33. After the multitude had eaten, what
did Jesus command his disciples to do ?
For what purpose did he remain behind ?
What happened on the sea that night ? 34-36. Where did they now come?
What miracles did he work there ?
What was a tetrarch ?
What Herod was this 2
When was the fourth watch? See B. S. Manual.
Chap. XV, 1-9. What question did the scribes
and Pharisees put to Jesus ?
What merited rebuke did he administer, in
return ? 10-20. What is it denies the man?
How did the disciples say the Pharisees
were affected by the rebuke he gave
them?
What answer did he make ?
How did he expound the parable he had
just delivered ? 21-28. Where did Jesus go from thence ? What request did a woman of Canaan
make?
Relate what followed. 29-39. Whither did Jesus now return ? What happened on a mountain ?
What great miracle did he perform to feed
them?
Where did he then go ?
What is meant by the traditions of the elders?
What by let him die the death ? What by It is a gift ?
Who is meant by a woman of Canaan ? Where were Tyre and Sidon ?
WTiere was Magdala ?
Chap. XVI, 1-12, What did the Sadducees
and Pharisees desire Jesus to show
them?
What answer did he make them ? What had the disciples forgotten to take ? Of what did Jesus bid them beware ? What did they think he meant ? What did he therefore say to them ? 13-20. Where did he now come ?
What question did he ask his disciples
here?
What answer did they make ?
What did he further inquire ?
What did Simon Peter say ?
What reply did Jesus make to this ? 21-23. What did he now begin to show to
his disciples ?
What did Peter do ?
How did Jesus rebuke him ? 24-28. What is it necessary to do, in order to
be a disciple of Christ ?
What solemn questions does he ask ? What does he say of the coming of the
Son of man ?
What of some of them standing there ? What is the meaning of tempting, in the first verse ! What of a sign from heaven ?
Where was Caesarea Philippi ?
What is the meaning of Bar-jona 9
On what was the Church to be built, — on Peter, or upon the doctrine he had declared respecting Christ?
What is meant by the keys of the kingdom of heaven ?
What by their power of binding and loosing ?
What -event is referred to in the last verse ?
Chap. XVII, 1-13. What did Jesus do after six days ? What then occurred ?
Who appeared ?
What did Peter say ?
What happened while he was speaking ?
How were the disciples affected ?
What then transpired ?
Whom did the Saviour give them to understand was the Elias promised as the forerunner of the Messiah ? 14-21. What request did the father of a lunatic son make to Jesus ? What did he say and do ?
What answer did he give the disciples, when they inquired why they had not been able to heal this lunatic ? 22-27. What did he say was about to happen to him?
Who came to Peter when they reached Capernaum ?
What did they ask him, and what did he answer ? .
What did Jesus say to Peter ?
How did he obtain the money to pay the tribute ?
What is meant by transfigured?
Why, think you, were Moses and Elias in this
amazing scene 1 Can you think of any important truths taught by
the transfiguration ?
For what purpose was this tribute money used ? How did Jesus know the money was in the fish's
mouth ?
Chap. XVIII, 1-6. How did Jesus teach his disciples humility ?
7-20. What does he say in reference to
offenses ?
What self-denying counsels does he give ? Whom should they not despise, and why ? For what purpose had the Son of man
come ?
Bv what beautiful parable does he illustrate
'this?
How should an offending brother be treated ? What encouragement does he give for united
prayer ?
21-35. What answer did he give to Peter,
when he inquired how many times he
should forgive his brother ?
By what parable did he enforce the duty
of forgiveness ?
What kind of a kingdom were the disciples of
Jesus expecting?
What did the Saviour mean by cutting off the hand,
and plucking out the eye ?
How can Jesus be present when two or three are
gathered in various parts of the earth, at the
same time ?
How much is a talent %
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