The liberator; Challenge to political authority and religious authority

Question 1

+ Challenge the Pharisees

Too focused on the physical, not inner purity

Answer 1

‘For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander. 20 These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.’ (Matthew 15:19-20)

Question 2

+ Good Samaritan

Answer 2

Criticised a ‘Preist’ and a ‘Levite’

Question 3

+ Treatment of the rich/powerful

Answer 3

‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God’ (Matthew 19:24)

Question 4

+ Healed the blind man on the Sabbath

Answer 4

‘Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. … Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”’

Question 5

+ Cleansing of the temple

Answer 5

‘My house shall be called a “house of prayer”, but you make it a den of robbers’

Temple tax/buying animals for sacrifice etc.

Question 6

Jesus exposed the underside of history

Answer 6

Jesus exposed the underside of history