• Part Third. Incidents on a Journey from Galilee to Jerusalem. Luke 9:51-19:48.
• Part Fourth. Teaching in Jerusalem, Death, Burial and Resurrection. Luke 20:1-24:53.
• Review: Part First.
• Review: Part Second.
• Review: Part Third.
• Review: Part Fourth.

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LUKE.

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PART THIRD.

INCIDENTS ON A JOURNEY FROM GALILEE TO
JERUSALEM.

ix. 51-xix. 48.

§ I. MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS. ix. 51-x. 24.

1. Preparation for the Journey. ix. 51-56.

• Meaning of, "received up"? 51.
• Why wish to go through Samaria? 52.
• Why object to his going to Jerusalem? Jno. iv. 20; cf. Josephus, Ant., B. XX. C. vi. 1.
• Why the severity of James and John? Cf. Mark iii. 17; Acts viii. 14-17.

2. Remarks about Following Jesus. 57-62.

• In this in its chronological place? Cf. 51; Matt. viii. 18-23. [84] 
• Point in the remark about ploughing? 62.
• The lesson taught them and us?

3. The Mission of the Seventy. x. 1-16.

• Whither sent, and why two and two? 1.
• Why sent? 2.
• How as lambs in the midst of wolves? 3.
• Why salute no man on the way? 4.
• How could their peace return to them? 6.
• Why, "no purse" etc.? 4, 7.
• What power given them? 9.
• Why the subject of their preaching? 9, 11.
• Is the woe upon the cities in its chronological place? 13-15, cf. Matt. xi. 20-24.

4. The Return and Report of the Seventy. 17-24.

• Why their remark about demons? 17, cf. 9.
• When did he see Satan fall? 18.
• What the rule about rejoicing? and why? 20.
• In what did he rejoice, and why? 31.
• Reference in the remark about prophets and kings? 24, cf. First Peter i. 10-12.

§ II. A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS. x. 25-xii. 59.

1. With a Lawyer about Who is My Neighbor? x. 25-37.

• Who were the lawyers? 25.
• In what sense "tempted" him? 25.
• How could the lawyer answer so correctly? 27.
• In what way desiring to justify himself? 29.
• Why say, "going down"? 30.
• What the excuses of the priest and the Levite? 31, 32.
• What excuses could the Samaritan have given had he passed by?
• How much money? and why so little? 35.
• What is the answer to the lawyer's question? [85]

2. With Mary and Martha. 38-42.

• Why the house called Martha's? 38.
• What the good part chosen by Mary?
• What the one thing needful?

3. With His Disciples about Prayer. xi. 1-13.

• Why the request, when he had once taught them? 1.
• Why not pray as John had taught?
• Point in the parable of the loaves? 5-9.
• Is the Holy Spirit given for asking alone? 13.

4. With Unbelievers about Casting Out Demons. 14-26.

• Was it the demon or the man who was dumb? 14.
• Was the objection expressed to Jesus? 15, 17.
• Show the force of his three arguments.
• Point in the parable of the unclean spirit? 24-26.
• What here learned about unclean spirits?

5. With a Woman Who Congratulated Him. 27, 28.

• What suggested her remark?

6. With the Multitude about the Demand for a Sign. 29-32.

• What kind of sign?
• How was Jonah a sign to the Ninevites? and how Jesus to his generation?
• In what sense condemn them? 31, 32.
• Inference as to the time of the judgment? 31, 32.

7. Parable of a Lamp. 33-36.

• Its significance?

8. With a Pharisee about Purification. 37-44.

• What washing? See Mark vii. 4.
• Meaning of remark about alms? 41.
• Point in comparison to tombs? 44. [86]

9. With a Lawyer about the Sins of His Class. 45-52.

• What burdens? 46.
• Why required of that generation? 50, 51.
• How did they take away the key of knowledge? 52.

10. With Scribes and Pharisees Who Seek to Provoke Him.
53, 54.

• To catch what out of his mouth?
• Wickedness of their conduct?

11. With His Disciples about Fear of Men. xii. 1-12.

• Connection of hypocrisy with the subject? 1.
• When shall the hidden be made known? 2, 3.
• Force of the reasons for not fearing men? 5; 6, 7; 8, 9; 10, 11, 12.
• Inference as to future punishment? 4, 5.
• Nature of the inspiration promised? 11, 12.

12. With the Multitude about Covetousness. 13-21.

• What the trouble between the brothers? 13.
• Why call on Jesus? and why his refusal?
• Why connect the request with covetousness? 15.
• Why was the rich man foolish? 19, 20, 21.
• Point in the question, "whose shall they be"? 20.

13. With the Disciples about Worldly Care. 22-34.

• Why specify the ravens? 24.
• Why is adding a cubit to one's stature called the "least"? 25, 26. See margin.
• Force of the reasons given?

14. About Watching for the Lord's Coming. 35-40.

• Explain the comparisons used. [87]

15. With Peter about the Warning just Given. 41-48.

• What the answer to Peter's question? 42, 45, 48.
• Why beat the ignorant servant at all? 48.

16. He Predicts Suffering and Divisions. 49-53.

• In what sense did he come to cast fire? 49.
• What the baptism, and why so called? 50.
• Meaning of the question, "what will" etc.? 49.
• Why "straitened"? 50.
• In what sense did he come to give division and not peace? 51.

17. With the Multitude about the Signs of the Time. 54-59.

• Why showers from the west? 54.
• Points of comparison in the case of the adversary? 58, 59.
• Was this comparison a repetition? Cf. Matt. v. 25, 26.

§ III. A SERIES OF DISCUSSIONS. xiii. 1-xvi. 31.

1. Of Providential Calamities. xiii. 1-9.

• Probable cause of Pilate's act? 1.
• Where and what was Siloam? 4.
• The error corrected, and the lesson taught?
• Bearing of the parable? 6-9.

2. With Pharisees about Sabbath-breaking. 10-21.

• Why call them hypocrites? 15.
• Are all afflictions from Satan? 16, cf. 11.
• Why repeat the two parables here? 18-21, cf. 18.

3. As to the Number Who Shall be Saved. 22-30.

• What the answer as to number? 24.
• Why will any expect to enter who can not? 25.
• How will the wicked see the righteous [88] in the kingdom? 28.
• Who from, "the east and west" etc.? 29.
• Meaning of last first and first last in 30?

4. About a Threat Concerning Herod. 31-35.

• Purpose of the threat? 31.
• Meaning of his message to Herod? 32, 33.
• Why call him a fox?
• How many times did he utter the address to Jerusalem? 34, 35; Matt. xxiii. 37-39.

5. About the Right to Heal on the Sabbath. xiv. 1-6.

• Why eat with Pharisees so often?
• Why does Jesus raise the question this time?

6. A Lesson on Humility. 7-11.

• Does this agree with the customs of the country?
• Humbled and exalted by whom? 11.
• To what other gatherings does this apply?

7. A Lesson on Entertainments. 12-14.

• What kind of feasts referred to?

8. About Eating in the Kingdom of God. 15-24.

• Cause of the man's exclamation? 15.
• The real reason behind the excuses? 18-21.
• Points of analogy in the parable?

9. About Counting the Cost. 25-35.

• What meant by hate? 26.
• Why his demand so exacting? 26, 27.
• Bearing of the illustration from the builder? 28-30.
• Of that from the king? 31-33.
• Of that from salt? 34, 35.

10. About Receiving Sinners. xv. 1-32.

(1). Occasion of the discussion. xv. 1, 2.

• Ground of the objection? [89]

(2). First argument. 3-7.

• Why such joy over the one? 7.
• Force of the argument?

(3). Second argument. 8-10.

• Why light a lamp? and sweep?
• Force of this as an argument?

(4). Third argument. 11-24.

• Point in being sent to feed swine? 15.
• What the husks? 16.
• Meaning of, "came to himself"? 17.
• Significance of the parable as an argument?
• What kind of dancing?

(5). Fourth argument. 25-32.

• Bearing of this on the question?

11. About the Right Use of Riches. xvi. 1-31.

(1). Parable of the unjust steward. xvi. 1-13.

• Effect of changing the bonds? 6-8, 14.
• What kind of wisdom? 8, cf. Jas. iii. 15, 17.
• What the mammon of unrighteousness? 9.
• How make friends by means of it? and what friends? 9.
• What meant by, "that which is your own"? 12.

(2). Pharisees scoff and are rebuked. 14-18.

• Why the scoffing? 14.
• What limit to the last clause of 15?
• Connection of the remarks about John, and divorce? 16-18.

(3). Parable of the rich man and Lazarus. 19-31.

• Completeness of the two pictures? 19-21.
• Connection with the preceding? Cf. 15.
• Connection of the fate of the two with the subject? 22-26.
• What is Hades? 23.
• Why represent Lazarus in Abraham's bosom? 23.
• What here taught of the wicked in [90] Hades?
• What taught as to the means of persuading men? 29-31.
• Was the conversation a reality?
• What uses of riches are discussed in the paragraph?

§ IV. CONVERSATIONS AND MIRACLES. xvii. 1-xix. 27.

1. About Forgiveness of Brethren. xvii. 1-10.

• Why impossible?
• Why say, "Increase our faith"? 5.
• Force of the answer? 6.
• Bearing of the parable? 7-10.
• Why unprofitable when duty is done? 10.
• What bearing has this on the doctrine of works of supererogation?

2. A Case of Ingratitude. 11-19.

• How, "through the midst of Samaria and Galilee"? 11.
• Why show themselves to the priests, and where were the priests? 14.
• Force of the word "stranger"? 18.
• How did his faith make him whole? 19.

3. A Warning about the Coming of the Kingdom. 20-37.

• In what sense, "within you"? 21.
• Why the desire? 22.
• Point in the comparison to lightning? 23, 24.
• In what day? 24, cf. 25, 34, 35.
• Point of comparison to days of Noah and of Lot? 26-30.
• Why the remark about goods? 31.
• Why remember Lot's wife? 32.
• Whither taken and where left? 34-37.

4. A Lesson on Perseverance in Prayer. xviii. 1-8.

• How avenge speedily, yet longsuffering?
• Point of comparison to the judge?
• Find what faith? 8. [91]

5. A Rebuke of Self-righteous Prayers. 9-14.

• What trust in themselves? 9.
• What was the character of the Pharisee? 11, 12.
• Why the difference in the result? 14.

6. A Blessing Pronounced on Infants. 15-17.

• How is the kingdom of such?
• How does a little child receive the kingdom?

7. About the Difficulty in Saving a Rich Man. 18-30.

• In what sense none good but God? 19.
• Why the remark?
• What was it that he lacked? 22, 23.
• What the difficulty of saving the rich? 25, 28.
• How receive manifold more in this time? 30.

8. His Death again Predicted. 31-34.

• If written by the prophets, why not understood? 34, 31.

9. A Blind Man Healed at Jericho. 35-43.

• How did he know it was a multitude? 36.
• Could he know it was a multitude before many had passed by?
• How then was it those going before that rebuked him? 39.
• How does this agree with the accounts of Matthew and Mark? Matt. xx. 29, 30; Mark x. 49.

10. The Conversion of Zacchæus. xix. 1-10.

• Does xix. 1 agree with interpretation of the last incident?
• Meaning of, "chief publican"? 2.
• Why joyfully? 6.
• What prompted his resolve? 8.
• How had salvation come to the house? 9.
• How does he compare with the rich men of xviii. 18, 23; xvi. 19. [92]

11. The Parable of the Pounds. 11-27.

• Force of the reason for speaking this parable? 11.
• Why go to a far country to receive a kingdom?
• What represented by the servants and the pounds? 13-26.
• Who, by the citizens? 14, 27.
• How is the word kingdom used in this place? 11, 12.

§ V. THE PUBLIC ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. xix. 28-48.

1. He Procures an Ass. xix. 28-35.

• Why say, "going up"? 28.
• Where Bethphage and Bethany? 29.
• Into which village? 30, cf. Matt. xxi. 1, 2.
• Why did the owner of the colt consent?
• Why say nothing of the dam?
• What saddle and bridle did he use? 35.

2. The Acclamation of the People. 36-40.

• Why spread their garments on the path? 36.
• Who were the speakers? 37.
• Why call him a king? 38.
• Why say, "peace in heaven"?
• Why did the Pharisees object? 39.
• How would the stones cry out? 40.

3. Jesus Weeps over the City. 41-44.

• Cause of the weeping?
• What enemies referred to?
• Why cast a bank about her? 43.
• Meaning of, "time of thy visitation"? 44.

4. Jesus Clears the Temple and Teaches. 45-48.

• What were they selling? 45.
• How a den of thieves? 46.
• How did the people prevent destroying Jesus? 47, 48. [93]

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PART FOURTH.

TEACHING IN JERUSALEM, DEATH, BURIAL AND
RESURRECTION.

xx. 1-xxiv. 53.

§ I. DISCUSSIONS IN THE TEMPLE. xx. 1-xxi. 4.

1. About the Authority of Jesus. xx. 1-8.

• One of what days? 1, cf. xix. 47.
• Why fear stoning? 6.
• Effect of this on the by-standers?

2. Parable of the Vine-dressers. 9-19.

• Significance of the parable?
• Why say, "God forbid"? 16. See 19.
• How does xx. 16 agree with Matthew xxi. 41?
• Connection of the remark about the stone? 18, 19.
• Why not, "lay hands on him"? 19.

3. About Tribute to Cæsar. 20-26.

• Why say "spies"? 20; Matt. xxii. 16.
• Meaning of, "take hold of the saying"? 26.

4. About the Resurrection. 27-40.

• Why can they not die? 36.
• In what sense equal to the angels? 36.
• How their difficulty removed?
• Why did the scribes approve this answer? 39.
• Why not dare to ask more questions? 40.

5. The Scribes Puzzled and Denounced. 41-47.

• Of what is xx. 45-47 a part? See Matt. xxiii. 1-39.

6. About Gifts to the Lord's Treasury. xxi. 1-4.

• How did the widow cast in more than all? [94]

§ II. DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE FORETOLD. xxi. 5-38.

1. Occasion of the Prediction. xxi. 5-7.

• Does this require the stones under ground to be moved?

2. False Christs, Great Calamities and Persecutions to Come
First. 8-13.

• How, "for a testimony"? 13.

3. How to Act under Persecution. 14-19.

• What kind of help promised? 14, 15.
• If killed, how not a hair perish? 16, 18.
• Effect of patience? 19.

4. When to Flee, and Why? 20-24.

• What the, "times of the Gentiles"? 24.

5. Other Signs. 25-28.

• Were they to see the Son of man before the fall of Jerusalem? 27, cf. 24.
• When what things begin to come to pass? 28.
• What redemption? 28.

6. Illustration from the Fig Tree. 29-33.

• Point of comparison?
• Till all what be fulfilled? 32.

7. The Suddenness of the Second Coming. 34-36.

• How, "as a snare"? 35.
• How, "watch ye at every season, making supplication"? 36.
• Meaning of, "stand before the Son of man"? 36.

8. The Way Jesus Spent His Time. 37, 38.

• Where, in the mount of Olives? See Mark xi. 11. [95]

§ III. PLOTS AND PREPARATIONS FOR THE DEATH OF
JESUS. xxii. 1-38.

1. The Agreement between the Chief Priests and Judas.
xxii. 1-6.

• How did Satan enter Judas? 3.
• Why go to the priests? 4.
• Why in the absence of the multitude? 6.

2. The Passover Prepared. 7-13.

• What day of the month? 7.
• What foreknowledge seen in the order to Peter and John? 10-12.
• What preparation was made? 13.

3. Remarks at the Paschal Supper. 14-38.

(1). About the passover. 14-18.

• Why such desire? 15.
• When was it fulfilled in the kingdom? 16.

(2). The Lord's supper instituted. 19, 20.

• Why called the Lord's supper? I. Cor. xi. 20.
• Why by some called the eucharist, and by some, the sacrament?
• Its design?

(3). About the betrayal. 21-23.

(4). About who shall be greatest. 24-27.

• When the strife?
• How was he as one that serves? 27.

(5). About the thrones of the apostles. 28-30.

• What these thrones?

(6). About Simon's great temptation. 31-34.

• When the praying done? 32.
• What is sifting? [96]

(7). About their former mission compared with their future
one. 35-38.

• What change made? 36.
• What meant by the order to buy a sword?
• How was it understood, and how the mistake corrected? 36, 38, cf. Matt. xxvi. 51, 52.

§ IV. JESUS ARRESTED, CONDEMNED AND CRUCIFIED.
xxii. 39-xxiii. 56.

1. His Agony in the Mount of Olives. xxii. 39-46.

• What of xxii. 43, 44?
• Why the warnings against temptation? 40, 46.
• How would prayer prevent it?

2. He is Arrested. 47-54.

• Why the kiss? 47, cf. Mark xiv. 44.
• Meaning of, "Suffer ye thus far"? 51.
• Why say, "this is your hour," etc.? 53.
• Why to the high priest's house? 54.

3. Peter's Denial. 55-62.

• Why a fire, and why Peter at it? 55.
• Time included in the denials? 59, 61.
• How could Jesus see Peter, and why the look? 61, cf. 55.

4. Jesus Blindfolded and Mocked. 63-65.

• Motive of this?

5. He is Condemned by the Sanhedrim. 66-71.

• Who constituted the Sanhedrim? 66.
• Why his first answer? 67, 68. [97]

6. He is Taken to Pilate and Sent to Herod. xxiii. 1-12.

• The accusations? 2.
• Meaning of, "perverting our nation"?
• Why so prompt a decision? 4.
• Why Herod in Jerusalem? 7.
• Why send Jesus to Herod?
• Why not answer Herod?
• What made Pilate and Herod friends? 12.

7. Pilate Persuaded to Crucify Him. 13-25.

• Why say, "called together"? 13.
• Why propose to chastise him? 16, 22.
• Why did Pilate yield? 23, 24.

8. Jesus Led away and Crucified. 26-38.

• Who were the women? 27, 28.
• What coming days referred to? 29.
• Why would they say, "Blessed are the barren"?
• What the green tree and the dry? 31.
• Why the malefactors led out? 32.

9. Conduct of the Malefactors. 39-43.

• Why the malice of one? 39.
• How did the other know Jesus? 41.
• How could he expect Jesus to come in his kingdom? 42.
• What meant by Paradise? 43, cf. Acts ii. 30, 31; II. Cor. xii. 4; Rev. ii. 7.
• How reconcile this account with Matthew's? Matt. xxvii. 44.

10. Jesus Dies. 44-49.

• Give the whole account of the centurion. 47; Matt. xxvii. 54.
• What the thoughts of the multitude? 48.
• Why his friends afar off? 49.

11. He is Buried. 50-56.

• What kind of councillor? 50, 51.
• In what sense looking for [98] the kingdom?
• Why wish to bury the body?
• Day of what Preparation? 54, cf. xxii. 7.
• Why did the women follow the body?
• Did they at once prepare all the spices? 56, cf. Mark xvi. 1.

§ V. THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF JESUS.
xxiv. 1-53.

1. The Announcement to the Women. xxiv. 1-12.

• Why only one angel mentioned by Matthew and Mark?
• What kind of dazzling apparel? 4.
• Why had they not remembered the rising on the third day? 6, 7.
• How many women? 10.
• Did Peter believe when he saw the tomb empty? 12.
• Who went with Peter? Jno. xx. 1-3.

2. Jesus Appears to Two on the Way to Emmaus. 13-35.

• In what sense their eyes "holden"? 16.
• Why astonished at his question? 18.
• Did they think Peter went alone to the tomb? 24.
• What opened their eyes? 31.
• What caused their hearts to burn? 32.
• When the appearance to Simon? 34.
• Does xxiv. 34, 35 agree with Mark xvi. 12, 13?

3. He Appears to the Eleven. 36-43.

• Why so terrified? 37, cf. Jno. xx. 19.
• Purpose of the eating?

4. Jesus Instructs the Eleven and Ascends to Heaven. 44-53.

• Divisions of the Old Testament?
• How did he open their mind? 45.
• Where was it written? 46, 47.
• Did they go to Galilee after this interview?
• Does xxiv. 44-49 belong to the same interview as xxiv. 36-43? Cf. 50, 51.
• Was Luke ignorant of the [99] appearances of Jesus in Galilee?
• Why the, "great joy"? 52.
• Where their time now spent? 53, cf. Acts i. 13.

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REVIEW OF LUKE.
PART FIRST.

• Subject and extent of this Part?
• Subjects of the sections?

§ I.
• What the motive of this Gospel, for what people, and what the author's opportunities?
• Describe the announcement of the birth of John. 2.
• How does this illustrate the subject of prayer?
• Describe the announcement to Mary. 3.
• Why did the angel call David the father of Jesus?
• What did Mary immediately do? and why? 4.
• What the circumstances and character of Mary, as indicated by her words of thanksgiving?
• When did Zacharias recover speech, and what the purpose of his dumbness? 5.
• Did John become a priest?

§ II.
• Describe the birth of Jesus. 1.
• Combine Matthew's account with this. Matt. i. 18-25.
• Repeat the words of the angel to the shepherds. 2.
• When was this?
• What resulted from this announcement? 3.
• When was Jesus named, and why called Jesus? 4.
• Repeat Simeon's remarks concerning him? 5.
• Why was Jesus in the temple, and how old was He?
• What testimony did Anna bear?
• Combine the account of his return to Nazareth with Matthew's. 6, Cf. Matt. ii. 19-23.
• Why did Jesus remain [100] in the temple when his parents started home? 7.
• What known of him between his second year and his thirtieth?

§ III.
• State the political changes between the birth of John and the beginning of his ministry. 1.
• What did John require of the people? 2.
• What was first thought of John, and why? 3.
• Causes of John's imprisonment? 4.
• Effect of this on the continuance of his baptism?
• At what age was Jesus baptized? 5.

§ IV.
• How was Joseph son of Heli and son of Jacob? 1.
• What line of ancestry, then, is given in Luke's genealogy?
• How explain the difference between Luke and Matthew as to the order of the temptations of Jesus? 2. 

 

 
 


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PART SECOND.

• Subject and extent of this Part?
• Subjects of the sections?

§ I.
• What caused Jesus to leave Nazareth? 2.
• Account for their unbelief, and their wrath.
• Why Capernaum selected as his home? 3.
• What first astonished his hearers in Capernaum, and why?
• What was his habit in dealing with demons, and why? 4.
• His habit as to place of prayer? 5.
• Describe the call of the four fishermen, and reconcile it with Matthew's account? 6.
• Why order lepers, when healed, to show themselves to a priest? 7.

§ II.
• How did Jesus prove his power to forgive sins? 1.
• What his reasons for not fasting? 2.
• How did he spend the night previous to selecting the twelve? 4.
• Difference between [101] the beatitudes in the Sermon on the plain and in that on the mount? 5.
• Give the close of the former. 5. (5).

§ III.
• How did the greatness of the centurion's faith appear? 1.
• What were his other good traits?
• Combine the accounts of this incident given by Luke and Matthew.
• Describe the raising of the widow's son. 2.
• What suggested John's question, sent from the prison? 3.
• What characteristics of John are pointed out in the remarks of Jesus, and how? 4.
• In what sense did those baptized by John justify God? 5.
• Describe the incident of the sinful woman in the house of the Pharisee. 6.
• Why did Jesus forgive her sins?

§ IV.
• By whom were the wants of Jesus and the twelve chiefly supplied? 1.
• In the parable of the sower, what is the connection of the honest and good heart? 2.
• What cause in common for the failure of the first three?
• What lesson taught by his response to his mother and his brothers? 4.
• Describe the stilling of the tempest. 5.
• What do you learn of demons from the case of the legion? 6.
• Why tell the man dispossessed to publish it, his custom being the reverse?
• Show how the faith of the woman with an issue made her whole. 7.
• Why so private in raising the ruler's daughter? 7.

§ V.
• What the work of the apostles under their first commission? 1.
• Give Herod's thoughts about Jesus. 2; Matt. xiv. 2.
• How did the writers learn Herod's thoughts? See viii. 1-3; Acts xiii. 1. [102] 
• Where were the five thousand fed, and what caused them to be there? 3.
• Difference from Matthew in the account of Peter's confession? 4.
• When and where did the transfiguration occur? 5.
• What its chief design?
• What else learned from it?
• Describe the miracle on the day after the transfiguration. 6.
• Describe the rebuke of ambition and jealousy among the twelve. 7. 

 

 
 


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PART THIRD.

• Subject and extent of this Part?
• Subjects of the sections?

§ I.
• Describe the rejection of Jesus by a Samaritan village. 1.
• Explain his answers to three men about following him. 2.
• Whither the seventy sent, and why? 3.
• What their respect, and what remark thereon? 4.
• How had prophets and kings desired to see these things?

§ II.
• What called for the parable of the good Samaritan? 1.
• Who were the lawyers?
• What excuses could the priest and the Levite probably have given?
• What could the Samaritan have given had he followed their example?
• How did the parable answer the lawyer's question?
• What was, "the good part" chosen by Mary? 2.
• Why did the disciples ask for instruction on prayer? 3.
• What the main point in the answer?
• Show the force of the defense against the charge of league with Satan. 4.
• Show how Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites. 6.
• How did Jesus give the sign of Jonah?
• What fault did Jesus find with the Pharisees? 8. [103] 
• What, with the lawyers? 9.
• What reasons given for fearing God rather than men? 11.
• Give the parable of the foolish rich man, and show what called it forth? 12.
• What reasons given for not being anxious about necessaries of life? 13.
• In what sense did Jesus send fire and division on the earth? 16.
• What did he mean by, "the signs of the times"? 17.

§ III.
• What lesson taught on providential calamities, and how? 1.
• Bearing of the parable?
• In what sense had Satan bound the afflicted woman? 2.
• State the points in answer to the question, "are they few that be saved"? 3.
• When Jesus was threatened with Herod, what was his answer? 4.
• How did Jesus teach humility at feasts? 6.
• What did he teach about giving feasts? 7.
• Give the parable of the great supper, and its meaning. 8.
• Give his lesson on counting the cost. 9.
• By what parables did Jesus defend himself for receiving sinners? 10.
• Show the bearing of each.
• What use of riches taught by the parable of the unjust steward? 11. (1).
• Why did the Pharisees scoff at this lesson? (2).
• What the main lesson from the rich man and Lazarus? (3).
• What learned from it as to the state of the dead?
• What, as to the meaning of bringing men to repentance?

§ IV.
• What is said about occasions of stumbling? 1.
• Why did the apostles ask an increase of faith?
• State the parable of the plow-men, and its meaning.
• Show that we cannot do works of supererogation.
• Point out the ingratitude of the nine lepers. 2. [104] 
• In what sense is the kingdom, "within you"? 3.
• In what respect will the coming of the Son of man be like the days of Noah and of Lot?
• Why does Jesus say, "remember Lot's wife"?
• Give the parable of the unjust judge, and show what it teaches. 4.
• State the case of the Pharisee and the publican. 5.
• Why the difference in the result of their prayers?
• What is it to receive the kingdom as a little child?
• What is the difficulty in saving a rich man? 7.
• Show the agreement between Luke and Matthew about the blind man at Jericho. 9.
• State the case of Zacchæus. 10.
• What prompted his resolve?
• How does he compare with the other rich man?
• Explain the parable of the pounds. 11.

§ V.
• Of what value is the account of the public entry into Jerusalem? 1, 2.
• What prediction did Jesus utter on the occasion? 3.
• Why did he clear the temple? 4. 

 

 
 


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PART FOURTH.

• Subject and extent of this Part?
• Subjects of the sections?

§ I.
• When the authority of Jesus was questioned, how did he defend it? 1.
• Explain the parable of the vine-dressers. 2.
• Did the scribes see its bearing?
• Purpose of the spies in the question about tribute? 3.
• How was the point made by the Sadducees met? 4.
• Why did his opponents cease to ask questions?
• Why could not the Pharisees answer his question? 5.
• What the amount of the widow's contribution? 6. [105]

§ II.
• What occasioned the prediction concerning the temple? 1.
• What classes of events were to precede its destruction? 2, 3.
• What the signal for immediate flight? 4.
• How long is Jerusalem to be held by Gentiles?
• Was Jesus come again before the fall of Jerusalem? 5.
• What was to be fulfilled in that generation? 6.
• Where did Jesus lodge during his stay at Jerusalem, and why? 8.

§ III.
• What suggested to Judas his proposal to the chief priests? 1.
• What foreknowledge was shown in the order to prepare the passover? 2.
• When and how was the passover fulfilled in the kingdom? 3. (1).
• Why the names eucharist and sacrament for the Lord's supper?
• Are they proper? (2).
• In what sense do the apostles sit on thrones and judge? (5).
• How did Jesus prepare in advance for Simon's denial? (6).
• What change did Jesus make in the commission of the apostles? (7).

§ IV.
• Describe the agony in the garden. 1.
• Why was the band ready for Judas? 2.
• How long after the arrest till the trial? 3.
• Give the proceedings of the sanhedrim. 5.
• What accusations were brought before Pilate? 6.
• Describe the proceedings before Herod?
• What was Pilate's decision, and on what evidence? 7.
• Quote and explain the words of Jesus to the women of Jerusalem. 8.
• Reconcile Matthew and Luke about the two robbers. 9.
• How could the penitent robber think that Jesus would yet come in his kingdom?
• What meant by Paradise in [106] the answer of Jesus?
• What convinced the centurion at the cross? 10.
• Describe the burial of Jesus. 11.

§ V.
• Describe the visit of the women to the sepulchre. 1.
• How many women?
• What in the story of the two who went to Emmaus made the apostles doubt it? 2.
• Why should we believe it?
• With what feelings did the eleven behold Jesus, and why? 3.
• What points of instruction in the last remarks of Jesus to the eleven? 4.
• Was Luke ignorant of the appearance of Jesus in Galilee?
• Where did the eleven stay between the ascension and the next Pentecost? [107]