CLF PT

Question 1

Derives from the word Philistia

Answer 1

Palestine

Question 2

The conditions in Palestine

Answer 2

Heavy Taxes (Both Romans and Jewish leaders)
Under Romans
Jewish Leaders – Taxes belongs to God and should be spent for the Temple.

Question 3

Context of Palestine during the time of Jesus

Answer 3

Conflicts in religions, class, protests, disunity.
Different views on politics and religion.
Rich and Powerful Jews made the poor suffer because of Heavy Taxes.
Poor people were driven out of Palestine and some became brigands (a gang that ambushes and robs people in forests and mountains) and some worked outside Palestine.
Poverty was imminent.

Question 4

JESUS AND THE JEWISH INSTITUTIONS

For Jesus, they’re very important

Answer 4

TEMPLE AND SYNAGOGUE

Question 5

Did Jesus observe jewish prayer life

Answer 5

yes !

Question 6

7th day of the week. God rested on the 7th day after He created everything.
Day of Worship.

Answer 6

The Sabbath Day

Question 7

Commemorates the Passion and Death of our Lord.

Answer 7

Sunday Mass

Question 8

the greatest festival that commemorates Israelites’ freedom from Egypt.

Answer 8

Passover

Question 9

Jesus upholds this. _____(Jewish) = Law

Answer 9

Torah

Question 10

1st Five books in the Bible

Answer 10

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers

Question 11

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:37-39).

Answer 11

Love and Law

Question 12

What are some of the people Jesus encountered from different kinds of people from all levels of society?

Answer 12

Farmers, fishermen, homemakers, landowners, laborers, Sadducees, Pharisees, tax collectors, zealots, Samaritans, and the outcasts of society

Question 13

Their teachings were criticized by Jesus.

Answer 13

PHARISEES

Question 14

Jesus rebuked their tendency to give more importance to the added rules and regulations than to the spirit of God’s law

Answer 14

Pharisees

Question 15

They are called the chief priests, elders, and scribes.

Answer 15

Sadducees

Question 16

while the Pharisees welcomed the idea of the resurrection, they rejected it.

Answer 16

Sadducees

Question 17

Well, Jesus ate with ______ and the Pharisees were scandalized

Answer 17

Tax collectors

Question 18

Considered “public sinners”, the most despised people in society.

Answer 18

Tax Collectors

Question 19

Also called publicans

Answer 19

Tax Collectors

Question 20

chief tax collector to whom Jesus dine with

Answer 20

Zacchaeus

Question 21

A tax collector who became Jesus’ apostle

Answer 21

Matthew

Question 22

were motivated by their fanatical zeal for the Torah and for God’s direct sovereignty and kingship

Answer 22

Zealots

Question 23

the zealot (a potential troublemaker) as Jesus’ apostle/disciple.

Answer 23

Simon

Question 24

were half-Jews and considered impure by the Jews because they married with pagans

Answer 24

Samaritans

Question 25

What did Jesus show in the Parable of the Good Samaritan?

Answer 25

Jesus wants to show in the parable that responding to the needs of others, even to an enemy, should be the highest priority, rather than temple worship

Question 26

Three levels of the Jewish Priestly Classes

Answer 26

There are 3 levels in the Jewish priestly class: Levites, priests, and high priests

Question 27

why did the Levite and the priest not help the robbed man?

Answer 27

The law prohibited them from touching anyone unclean before offering a sacrifice at the temple

Question 28

was the highest titular head of the Jewish community.
He has both religious and political power

Answer 28

High Priest

Question 29

Who was the only one who could enter the “Holy of Holies”?

Answer 29

The High Priest

Question 30

Who Jesus mingled with

Answer 30

the poor and the outcast

Question 31

The majority of people during the time of Jesus

Answer 31

The poor and the outcast

Question 32

What did Jesus call the poor?

Answer 32

“the little ones” or “lost sheep of Israel” to whom He would be the Good Shepherd

Question 33

What were the different expectations of the Messiah?

Answer 33

Davidic King
Prophet
Moses
Military Leader or New Priest

Question 34

Why were they longing for the Messiah?

Answer 34

They were under Rome
Jewish leaders were unreliable
Heavy Taxes from both Rome and the Jewish Leaders
Poverty