The Gospel of Luke 7

Study Guide Questions for Ch. 13-14

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)

Patience, Pride vs. Humility

Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)

1. What wicked thing had Pilate done to some Galilean Jews?

2. What made the “ruler of the synagogue” “indignant”?

3. Whom did Jesus say the people would see in the kingdom of God while they are themselves being “cast out”?

4. Who was seeking to kill Jesus according to some of the Pharisees?

5. What did Jesus say he had longed to do concerning Jerusalem but the people “were not willing”?

6. What did Jesus say people ought to do when choosing a seat at a “wedding feast”?

7. In the parable of the banquet what three excuses did people make to not attend the feast?

8. What three difficult things did Jesus tell the “great crowds” that were following him they must do to truly be his disciples? 

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

1. What is the meaning behind the parable of the barren fig tree?

2. Who are the people that “will come from the east and west, and from the north and south” to “recline at table in the kingdom of God”?

3. Why does Jesus keep healing people on the Sabbath day?

4. If you were to line up the people making excuses for why they aren’t coming to the master’s banquet with the parable of the sower (Luke 8:4-15) which of the four kinds of hearers of the word would you say these excuse makers are?

5. How do we reconcile Jesus' commandments to “love your neighbor as yourself” with his insistence that his disciples must “hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life”?

6. What is Jesus’ point about the salt that loses its taste?

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

1. Consider the woman who “had a disabling spirit for eighteen years”. What connection is there between sickness and demonic activity? Are all sicknesses the result of demons according to Scripture? How should we think about this in our own day? Be sure to use good reasoning and Scripture to answer this.

2. Consider Jesus’ teaching about the “narrow door” and the parable of the “dinner banquet" and answer the following question: In the end, relative to all of humanity across the ages, will the number of people who are saved be many or few? Explain and defend your answer.

3. How ought we to think about honor? Ought we to desire and seek honor or to be honored? Does Jesus teach us that we ought not to seek after honor or does he teach us how to seek it wisely? What might be a practical example of applying Jesus’ teaching to our own day?

Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)

1. Compare Jesus’ parables of the mustard seed and the leaven to the story of Nebudchadnezzer’s dream in Daniel 4. What is similar about these passages? What is different?

2. Read Numbers 15:32-36. How is this situation different from Jesus’ practice of healing on the Sabbath? In other words, why was this man justly executed whereas Jesus is not guilty of violating the Sabbath day command? You might want to reread Exodus 20:8-11 to remember the specific Sabbath day command.