Week 4. Messenger: Jesus on John the Baptist

        Welcome to the Quotations Bible Study blog. This is the fourth week's posting. Each week a new set of posts will be made available. For more information on the Quotations Bible Study, see the home page.
        Below is a list of posts giving the questions posed in the fourth week. Feel free to respond with your own answers. Anonymous comments are permitted. Discussions are encouraged.
        So, enjoy exploring the word together.

Q1: Whatever the timeframe, the LORD is speaking as though the people are in captivity. The imperative "comfort" is plural. Whom is the LORD speaking to? (Isa. 40:1)

Q2: What comfort has the LORD to offer? (Isa. 40:2)

Q3: How much has Jerusalem been punished? (Isa. 40:2)

Q4: What is the "way of the LORD"? (Isa. 35:8-10)

Q5: If the geographical images in Isaiah 40:3,4 are applied to the
strata of human society and the landscape of human affairs, what is going to happen?

Q6: Who is "all mankind"? (Isa. 40:5)

Q7: What is the "glory of the LORD" that "all mankind" will see? (Isa. 40:5)

Q8: To what is the transience of man compared? (Isa. 40:6-8) Who else suggested this? (Matt. 5:17,18, James 1:10)

Q9: Who is the shepherd? (Isa. 40:11, John 10:11-16)

Q10: In all that will happen, who will survive? (Isa. 40:31, Hab. 2:4)

Q11: Where was John preaching? (Matt. 3:1)

Q12: What was John preaching? (Matt. 3:2)

Q13: What does Matthew claim about John? (Matt. 3:3)

Q14: John dressed oddly, didn't he? (2 Kings 1:8; Matt. 3:4)

Q15: John's message attracted attention. Where did people come from to hear him? (Matt. 3:5)

Q16: What did John do to those who came to him? (Matt. 3:6)

Q17: Whom did John condemn? (Matt. 3:7)

Q18: Whom did John announce? (Matt. 3:11,12)

Q19: What was the other baptism? (Matt. 3:11)