Week 4. Messenger: Jesus on John the Baptist

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        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)

Q20: What does Mark claim about John? (Mark 1:2,3)

Q21: Where was John preaching? (Mark 1:4)

Q22: What was John preaching? (Mark 1:4)

Q23: What did John do to those who came to him? (Mark 1:4)

Q24: John's message attracted attention. Where did people come from to hear him? (Mark 1:5)

Q25: Whom did John announce? (Mark 1:7)

Q26: What was the other baptism? (Mark 1:8)

Q27: What does Luke claim about John? (Luke 3:2)

Q28: Where was John preaching? (Luke 3:3)

Q29: What was John preaching? (Luke 3:3)

Q30: Whom did John condemn? (Luke 3:7)

Q31: Whom did John announce? (Luke 3:16)

Q32: What was the other baptism? (Luke 3:16)

Q33: Who came to quiz John and where were they from? (John 1:19)

Q34: Whose identity did John deny for himself? (John 1:20,21)

Q35: What was John doing? (John 1:26)

Q36: Whom did John announce? (John 1:26,27)

Q37: John the Baptist's witness to Jesus is very detailed. How did he know Jesus? (John 1:33)

Q38: What will the messenger do? (Mal. 3:1)

Q39: What happens after the messenger completes his task? (Mal. 3:1)

Q40: Who is the messenger of the covenant? (Mal. 3:1)

Q41: How bad will it be? (Mal. 3:2,3)

Q42: John heard about what Christ was doing. What had he been doing? (Matt. 11:1,5; Luke 7:14,15)

Q43: Why did John doubt? (Matt. 11:2; Luke 7:19)

Q44: What works did Jesus point out to John's disciples? (Isa. 35:5,6; Matt. 11:5; Luke 7:22)

Q45: Jesus discussed the role of John in the Kingdom, describing him with irony. What did "a reed shaken by the wind" mean? (Matt. 11:7; Luke 7:24) Hint: was John a popular figure?

Q46: Why did Jesus refer to fine clothes? John was not a snappy dresser (Matt. 3:4) Hint: John was unjustly a king's prisoner. (Matt. 11:8; Luke 7:25)

Q47: Jesus said John was more than a prophet. (Matt. 11:9; Luke 7:26) What could be more than a prophet? (Matt. 11:10; Luke 7:27)