Lesson 15 & 16

Question 1

What is the “acceptable year of the Lord?”

Answer 1

They year in which the Lord will perform all of these marvels and set about the restoration of Israel

Question 2

In Jewish tradition, why do people stand when they read the Scriptures?

Answer 2

Because they are standing in the presence of hte Lord (like Gabriel)

Question 3

According to Josephus, what kind of people did the city of Nazareth attract?

Answer 3

Rebels, Jewish zealots, and exiles from Jerusalem with radical views regarding Rome

Question 4

Why did Jewish parents often name their children after revolutionary figures?

Answer 4

They desired to see Israel set free in their lifetime

Question 5

Why were the people of Nazareth so angry with Jesus? Give two (2) reasons
Why were the people of Nazareth so angry with Jesus? Give two (2) reasons

Answer 5

a) Jesus failed to declare the day of vengeance against the Gentiles
b) He declared that Gentiles and not Jews had been cleansed

Question 6

Why was Jesus accused of not having prophetic powers, despite His reputation?

Answer 6

He allowed a sinner to wash His feet

Question 7

What exposed the sinfulness of the religious world?

Answer 7

The cross of Christ

Question 8

How did Jesus correct the vision of the disciples using Moses and the prophets?

Answer 8

He showed them that all that had happened was in line with OT prophecy and part of the plan of God (Luke 24:27)

Question 9

What story does Luke overlay on top of the narrative in 2 Kings 6:8-23 (in which the Syrian army is struck by blindness)?

Answer 9

The disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-27)

Question 10

What ultimately leads to the restoration of Israel?

Answer 10

The prophetic spirit, informed by the Spirit of God, responded to by belief and prayer

Question 11

Finish this sentence:

Luke’s Gospel details how the outsiders to the community of Israel _______________________

Answer 11

Are welcomed in to the community of Israel and Israel is restored

Question 12

Why was the parable of the Good Samaritan so shocking to Jewish sensibilities?

Answer 12

The Samaritans were a people who were outside the bounds of the covenant of Israel

Question 13

What is a parable?

Answer 13

A teacher’s way of taking some unknown idea or concept and making it comprehensible or known by using visible, everyday objects

Question 14

Describe Jesus’ incarnational existence

Answer 14

The unknown, invisible, intangible God being made known by ordinary, everyday human flesh

Question 15

The three parables contained in Luke 15 are really what?

Answer 15

Only one parable (one concept made known by three ordinary images)

Question 16

In Luke’s Gospel, in what sort of place were the ninety-nine sheep left?

Answer 16

The wilderness (a place of danger and suffering)

Question 17

What is Jesus teaching in the parable of the lost coin?

Answer 17

Sometimes people can get lost inside the house of God - yet even there God will seek what is lost

Question 18

To ask for one’s inheritance early was the same as doing what?

Answer 18

Wishing that your father was dead

Question 19

In the parable of the two lost sons, the older brother is a metaphor for what?

Answer 19

The Jewish people who would not accept the Christian movement, because it included sinners and Gentiles

Question 20

The theme “without hindrance,” traced throughout Luke and Acts, finds its culmination in Paul’s ability to do what?

Answer 20

Preach the gospel freely and welcome the outsider into the house of God (Acts 28:31)