4.3 Christ the Great Teacher                                 

 

1. What report did the officers, who were sent by the chief priests and Pharisees to arrest Jesus, give?
John 7:46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this Man.

 

2. How did Christ teach the people?
Matthew 7:29 For He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

 

3. What was so impressive in Christ’s teaching?
Luke 4:32 And they were astonished at His doctrine: for His word was with power.

 

4. What filled Him?
Luke 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

 

5. To what measure was the Holy Spirit given to Him?
John 3:34 For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.

 

6. How had Christ's teaching by parables been foretold?
Psalm 78:2 I will open My mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

 

7. How was this fulfilled?
Matthew 13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake He not unto them:

 
8. What question did Christ's wonderful teaching call forth?
Matthew 13:54 And when He was come into His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this Man this wisdom, and these mighty works?

 

9. What did Isaiah say Christ would do with the law?
Isaiah 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness' sake; He will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

 

10. What did Christ say, since some thought He had come to abolish the law?
Matthew 5:17-20
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

 

11. What testimony did Nicodemus bear concerning Him?
John 3:2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto Him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a Teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with Him.

 

12. What question did Christ’s words lead the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well to ask?
John 4:28-29
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a Man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

 

13. What impression did the conversation with Christ make on the two who were traveling to Emmaus?
Luke 24:32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures?

 

14. To what did Christ point in His teaching?
Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Luke 24:44-45
44 And He said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me.
45 Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

 

15. How did He encourage His disciples to look forward to the fulfillment of the prophecy?
Matthew 24:15-16
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: