The Gospel of Luke 4

Study Guide Questions for Ch. 7-8

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)

Faith, Arrogance, Light vs. Darkness, Unbelief

Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)

1. What had the Roman centurion, with the sick servant, done for the people of Capernaum which made them say, “He is worthy to have you do this for him”?

2. When Jesus raised the widow’s son from the dead, what was the response of the people who witnessed it?

3. What miracles did Jesus perform before the eyes of the disciples of John the Baptist?

4. Who provided for Jesus and his apostle’s needs while they were spreading “the good news of the kingdom of God”?

5. What are the four different kinds of hearers in Jesus' parable of the sower?

6. Who did Jesus say are his “mother and…brothers”?

7. What miraculous power did Jesus demonstrate “one day” while he was on the boat with his disciples?

8. Where did the demons, which Jesus cast out of the man called Legion, plead to not be sent? Where did they wish to go instead?

9. What miracle occurred while Jesus was on his way to Jairus’ daughter?

10. What did Jesus “charge” the people who witnessed the resurrection of Jairus’ daughter to do?

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

1. Why did Jesus answer the disciples of John the Baptist in the way that he did? Why not simply say, “Yes, I am the one who is to come”?

2. Why was John the Baptist’s role important?

3. What was Jesus’ point when he said “this generation…are like children in the marketplace and calling to one another, ‘we played the flute, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’”?

4. What seems to be the particular vice of the Pharisee who invited Jesus to eat with him?

5. Why would Jesus disguise the plain meaning of his teaching with parables?

6. Why did Jesus grant the demons permission to do what they did after leaving Legion?

7. Why did Jesus command some people to tell others “how much God has done for you” while commanding others to “tell no one”?

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

1. How should Jesus’ teaching that “nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light” affect our everyday lives?

2. Should truth ever be withheld from people? If so, what would be an example of a circumstance where that would be appropriate?

Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)

1. Read Isaiah 61. How are we seeing Jesus fulfill the prophecies of this Old Testament passage?