The Gospel of Luke 3

Study Guide Questions for Ch. 5-6

If you are looking for the beginning of this study you can start HERE with the brief introduction. At the bottom of that introduction will be the links to each section of the study guide as it becomes available. For this study the English Standard Version is the translation that is being utilized and you can read it online HERE or pick up the copy of your choice from Amazon or your local book store. I find THIS EDITION to be useful for deeper study and annotation.

Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)

Appearance vs. Reality, Love

Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)

1. At the beginning of chapter five, from where did Jesus teach the crowds that were “pressing in on him to hear the word of God?”

2. What miraculous thing occurred while Jesus was with Simon Peter?

3. What did Jesus command the man healed of Leprosy to do?

4. How did the friends of the paralyzed man manage to bring him before Jesus?

5. What did Jesus say to the paralyzed man that caused the Pharisees to accuse him of blasphemy?

6. According to Jesus, what kind of person did he come to call?

7. What did Jesus’ disciples do that made the Pharisees claim they were breaking Sabbath law?

8. What did Jesus do immediately before he picked his twelve apostles?

9. What unlikely thing did Jesus command his followers to do concerning their enemies?

10. What reason did Jesus give for why we ought to love our enemies and lend without expecting to receive anything back?

11. To what did Jesus compare those who both hear his words and do what he says? What about those who do not hear and do what he says?

Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)

1. Why did Simon Peter react the way he did to the miracle of the fish?

2. Why is it significant that Jesus touched the man he healed of leprosy?

3. Why is it important that Jesus commanded the healed man to do what “Moses commanded”?

4. What should we infer from the fact that Jesus is able to forgive people’s sins?

5. How should we understand Jesus’ point in the parable about the new and the old? What is his main point?

6. Why were the Pharisees so upset by Jesus healing on the Sabbath?

7. How are the “Blessed” and the “Woe” statements of Jesus’ sermon (Luke 6:20-26) a superb example of Appearance vs. Reality?

8. In Luke 6:37-42 is Jesus telling us that we ought never to pass judgment on other people at all? What is he saying?

9. Why does it not make sense to call Jesus “Lord, Lord” but not do what he says?

Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)

1. What makes a law just or unjust?

2. Consider Jesus’ point about David eating the bread which was “not lawful” for him to eat. Is it the case that even good laws should sometimes be disobeyed? If so, when, why, and how? If not, then how do you reconcile this with Jesus’ statement about David?

3. How is it possible to love people who hate us? What does actually obeying this command look like?

4. How do we become people who bear good fruit rather than bad fruit?

Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)

1. Read Exodus 20:8-11. In light of this, why did the Pharisees accuse Jesus and his disciples of breaking the law of God? Did they actually? Why or why not?

2. Read James 1:22-25 and 2:14-26. How do these passages relate to Jesus’ teaching about calling him “Lord, Lord”?