New Testament - Gospels Anthology - Salvation Flashcards
Study The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - The Gospels Anthology regarding the salvation of Jesus Christ
Mark 1:4
Baptism, Repentance & Forgiveness
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Mark 1
4 so John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins…
8 I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
Scripture:
Definitions:
* Holy Spirit - God’s Spiritual Body
* Baptism - a Christian sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the Christian community.
* Repentance - to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one’s life.
* Sins - an offense against religious or moral law.
Context: The narrator of Mark 1 tells the story of John the Baptist.
Situation: John the baptist preaches in the wilderness
Mark 1:7 He proclaimed, “The one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the strap of his sandals. 8 I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
Location: The wilderness
Audience: Mark 1:5 the whole Judean region and all the people of Jerusalem
Luke 3:3
Baptism, Repentance & Forgiveness
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Luke 3
3 He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Definitions:
* Baptism - a Christian sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the Christian community.
* Repentance - to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one’s life.
* Sins - an offense against religious or moral law.
Context: The narrator of Luke 3 tells the story of John the Baptist.
Situation: John the baptist preaches in the wilderness
Luke 3:2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
Location: The wilderness
Audience: into the region around the Jordan.
Luke 1:77-79
Knowledge of Salvation
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Luke 1
76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High,
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
77 to give his people knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins.
78 Because of the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us,
79 to shine upon those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Definitions:
* Most High - God Almighty God Most High
* Salvation - deliverance from the power and effects of sin.
* Prophet - one who utters divinely inspired revelations.
* Sins - an offense against religious or moral law.
* Mercy - compassion or forbearance shown especially to an offender or to one subject to one’s power
Context: Zechariah’s Prophecy after the birth of John the Baptist.
Luke 1:57 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son.
Situation: The Birth of John the Baptist
Luke 1:57 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son.
Location: A Judean town in the hill country
Luke 1:39 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40 where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
Audience: Elizabeth’s neighbors and relatives.
Luke 1:57 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.
Matthew 6:12, 14-15
Forgive Others So God Forgives
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Matthew 6
12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
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14 “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
15 but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Definitions:
* Forgive - to cease to feel resentment against.
* Debts - to sin.
* Trespasses - to sin.
* Sin - an offense against religious or moral law.
Context: The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:10-13).
Situation: Jesus preaches the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12), a series of ethics (Matthew 5-7) and the Lords Prayer (Matthew 6:10-13).
Location: Galilee (Matthew 4:23), up the Mountain (Matthew 5:1).
Audience: Jesus preaches to his twelve disciples (Matthew 5:1) and the crowds (Matthew 7:28).
Mark 11:25
Forgive Other So God Forgives
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Mark 11
25 “Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.”
Definitions:
* Forgive - to cease to feel resentment against.
* Trespasses - to sin.
* Sin - an offense against religious or moral law.
Context: Observing that Jesus has withered an fig tree, Jesus preaches about faith & belief that God will do things for you through prayer.
Situation: Preaching an the way back to Jerusalem
Mark 11:20 In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.
Mark 11:27 Again they came to Jerusalem.
Location: Outskirts of Jerusalem, near the Mount of Olives.
Mark 11:1 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives.
Mark 11:11 - Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple, and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
Mark 11:19 And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.
Audience: The twelve disciples (Mark 11:20)
Luke 6:37
Forgive and You Will Be Forgiven
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Luke 6
37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Definitions:
* Forgive - to cease to feel resentment against.
Context: Jesus preaches about a series of ethics after the Beatitudes (i.e. Blessings & Woes).
Situation: Preaching to the 12 disciples in front of the crowds.
Luke 6:17 He came down with them and stood on a level place with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.
Luke 6:20 Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Location: Down from a mountain
Luke 6:12 Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
Luke 6:17 He came down with them and stood on a level place with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.
Audience: The twelve disciples in front of the crowds.
Luke 11:4
Forgive Us Our Sins
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Luke 6
1 He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
2 So he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, may your name be revered as holy. May your kingdom come.
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.”
Definitions:
* Prayer - an address (such as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought.
* Forgive - to cease to feel resentment against.
* Holy - exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness
* Sin - an offense against religious or moral law.
Context: After prayer, Jesus’s disciples ask for guidance on prayer.
Situation: After prayer, Jesus’s disciples ask for guidance on prayer.
Location: in a certain place.
1 He was praying in a certain place
Audience: the twelve disciples
Mark 10:17-27
Eye of the Needle
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Mark 10
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
26 They were greatly astounded and said to one another, “Then who can be saved?”
27 Jesus looked at them and said, “For mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible.”
Definitions:
* Saved - delivered from sin and from spiritual death : rescued from eternal punishment
* Mortals - subject to death
Context: A rich man asked Jesus what was needed for eternal life.
Situation: Jesus was setting out on a journey.
Mark 10:17 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Location: unknown
Audience: the twelve disciples
Mark 10:23 Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”
Mark 10:28-31
The First Will Be Last
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Mark 10
28 Peter began to say to him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
29 Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news
30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
31 But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
Context: A rich man asked Jesus what was needed for eternal life.
Situation: Jesus was setting out on a journey.
Mark 10:17 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Location: unknown
Audience: the twelve disciples
Mark 10:23 Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”
Matthew 7:21-23
Doing the Will of the Father
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Matthew 7
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you who behave lawlessly.’
Context: Jesus speaks about a series of ethics after the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12)
Situation:
Matthew 4:23 Jesus went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.
Location: the mountain
Matthew 4:25 And great crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
Matthew 5:1 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.
Audience: Jesus’s 12 Disciples
Matthew 5:2 And he began to speak and taught them.
Matthew 9:6
The Authority of Jesus
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Matthew 9
6 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Stand up, take your bed, and go to your home.”
Context: Jesus responds to the scribes.
Matthew 9:3 Then some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” 4 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Situation: Jesus continues to heal the people.
Matthew 9:2 And some people were carrying to him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, child; your sins are forgiven.”
Location: Jesus’s own town.
Matthew 9:1 And after getting into a boat he crossed the sea and came to his own town.
Audience: The crowds.
Matthew 9:8 When the crowds saw it, they were filled with awe, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to human beings.
Mark 2:10
The Authority of Jesus
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Mark 2
10 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
11“I say to you, stand up, take your mat, and go to your home.”
Context: Jesus responds to the scribes.
Mark 2:6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there questioning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this fellow speak in this way? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 8 At once Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were discussing these questions among themselves, and he said to them, “Why do you raise such questions in your hearts?
Situation: Jesus continues to heal the people.
Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”
Location: Jesus’s own town.
Mark 2:1 When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.
Audience: The crowds.
Mark 2:4 And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay.
Luke 5:24
The Authority of Jesus
The Holy Bible (NRSV) - New Testament - Luke 5
24 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the one who was paralyzed—“I say to you, stand up and take your stretcher and go to your home.”
Context: Jesus responds to the scribes and the Pharisees.
Luke 5:21 Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, “Who is this who is speaking blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 22 When Jesus perceived their questionings, he answered them, “Why do you raise such questions in your hearts?
Situation: Jesus continues to heal the people.
Luke 5:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”
Location: undocumented
Audience: The crowds.
Luke 5:19 but, finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the tiles into the middle of the crowd in front of Jesus.
