Q9: What faculties have failed David in this extremity? (Ps. 22:14,15)

Q10: Whose hand does David see as having brought him to the brink of death? (Ps. 22:15)

Q11: How are the "dogs" and the "band of evil men" related? (Ps. 22:16)

Q12: What is David's appearance, and how do people react to it? (Ps. 22:17)

Q13: Why would anyone be dividing David's clothes or gambling for them? (Ps. 22:18)

Q14: Do we understand the urgency of David's cry for help now? (Ps. 22:19-21)

Q15: In contrast to the public spectacle of Ps. 22:6-8, David is now prepared to render public praise. What will he do? (Ps. 22:22,23)

Q16: What confidence can Israel have during affliction? (Ps. 22:24)

Q17: Whom does David look to in affliction? (Ps. 22:25)

Q18: Whom does the LORD's provision extend to? (Ps. 22:26,27)

Q19: What is the LORD's position? (Ps. 22:28)

Q20: What parties will join in the praise and thanksgiving? (Hint: the dust is the dust of poverty but may also be the dust of death, as in v.15.) (Ps. 22:29)

Q21: What does "those who cannot keep themselves alive" suggest? (Ps. 22:29)

Q22: How does God's service proceed through the ages? (Ps. 22:30)

Q23: Whom is David speaking about when he says "a people yet unborn"? (Ps. 22:31)

Q24: "He has done it." What has the LORD done? (Ps. 22:31)

Q25: Did Jesus intentionally quote Psalm 22, thus invoking the entire context of Psalm 22, or was the outcry of "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me" a cry of ultimate despair?

Q26: We noticed numerous parallels between the crucifixion story and Psalm 22 in the course of the survey above. Did Jesus comprehend these as well?

Q27: Was Jesus' suffering reflected in the expression of despair in Ps. 22:1?

Week 6. Procession: Jesus the King

        Welcome to the Quotations Bible Study blog. This is the sixth 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 sixth week. Feel free to respond with your own answers. Anonymous comments are permitted. Discussions are encouraged.
        So, enjoy exploring the word together.

Q1: The Psalmist urges which three classes of people to affirm that the LORD's love endures forever? (Ps. 118:2-4)

Q2: The Psalmist was in trouble. What steps did he take, and what was the result? (Ps. 118:5)

Q3: The Psalmist affirms the LORD to be on his side. Then he asks rhetorically, what can man do unto me. Whom does that sound like? (Rom. 8:31)

Q5: Does it sound as though the Psalmist has had some bad experiences in politics? (Ps. 118:9)

Q6: The Psalmists enemies had him surrounded, and they were numerous, intrusive, and fierce. What spiritual enemies do we have that are like that? (Ps. 118:12)

Q7: Who will provide the victory? (Ps. 118:14-17)

Q8: Whose hand does the Psalmist see behind his difficulties? (Ps. 118:18)

Q9: Jesus gave specific instructions to the disciples about the donkey and colt. Why? (Matt. 21:1-5)

Q10: How many people showed up for Jesus' entry into Jerusalem? (Matt. 14:21; 15:38; 21:8,9)

Q11: Why did some lay their cloaks on the road? (2 Kings 9:13)

Q12: Who does the crowd say Jesus is? (Matt. 21:9)

Q13: Why did people in the city ask who Jesus is? (Matt. 21:10,11)

Q14: So, who were those in the crowd? (Matt. 21:10,11)

Q15: Jesus said, rather than be called Rabbi, father, or master, it is better to be known as a servant. What kind of servant did He mean? (Matt. 23:8-12; Isa. 53)

Q16: Jesus accused the Pharisees of greed, self-indulgence, and inward death. This is strong language. Verse 33 sounds like John the Baptist. (Matt. 3:7) What was Jesus' intent? (Matt. 23:25,27,33)

Q17: What was Jerusalem's main problem? (Matt. 23:37)

Q18: What did Jesus mean by, "... your house is left to you desolate"? (Matt. 23:38)

Q19: The statement, "... you will not see me again until ...", sounds like a prediction. What is going to happen? (Matt. 23:39)

Q20: Why did Jesus give specific instructions to the disciples about the donkey and colt? (Mark 11:1-3) Why was the colt to be one which no one had ever ridden? (1 Sam. 6:7) (Hint: unused animals were considered more suitable for sacred purposes.)

Q21: Why did those who stood nearby the colt not object when the disciples came and took it? (Mark 11:4-6)

Q22: Who does the crowd say Jesus is? (Mark 11:9,10)

Q23: Jesus flung His defiance of Herod back in their faces. What did Jesus think about Herod? (Hint: "fox" did not have the connotation "sly" as it dies in our language; rather, its implication was insignificance or weakness.) (Luke 13:32,33)

Q24: What did Jesus mean by mentioning the "third day"? (Luke 13:32)

Q25: Luke recorded the reason why people began to rejoice and praise God. What was it? (Luke 19:37)

Q26: In contrast to Matthew and Mark, Luke describes the crowd as including the word "king" in their paraphrase of Psalm 118:26. Is this significant? (Luke 19:38)

Q27: When some of the Pharisees asked Jesus to rebuke His disciples, what was their reason? (Luke 19:39)

Q28: What was Jesus saying in His response? (Hab. 2:11; Luke 19:40)

Q29: How many people were there? (John 12:12)

Q30: What were the people doing there in Jerusalem? (John 12:12)

Q31: What was their expectation? (John 12:13)

Q32: With deliberate symbolism, Jesus obtained a donkey and entered Jerusalem riding on it, fulfilling prophecy, as John points out. What was required before the disciples understood the meaning of this? (John 12:14-16)

Q33: How does the passage about the stone the builders rejected summarize the parable of the vineyard? (Matt. 21:33-42)

Q34: Who was the cornerstone? Who were the builders? (Matt. 21:42)

Q35: What will happen to those who possess the Kingdom of God as Jesus speaks? Who are the people to whom it will be given? (Matt. 21:43)

Q36: Who are the two classes of people, those who fall on the stone and those who are crushed by it? (Matt. 21:44)

Q37: What particular belief of the people caused the chief priests and Pharisees to fear the consequences of taking Jesus into custody? (Matt. 21:46)

Q38: What source did Jesus cite? (Mark 12:10)

Q39: In this reversal of fortune, who has done it? Is it amazing? (Mark 12:11)

Q40: "They" were evidently the Pharisees and the Temple rulers. How did they perceive the parable? (Mark 12:12)

Q41: Why did they not simply seize Jesus immediately? (Matt. 21:45; Mark 12:12)

Q42: After Jesus affirmed the conclusion of the parable, what response of the people did Luke record? (Luke 20:16)

Q43: Did they understand the parable? (Luke 20:16)

Q44: The people's expression, "May this never be!" ("God forbid", AV), shows that they didn't believe Jesus. How did He convince them? (Luke 20:17)

Q45: Did what Jesus implicitly predicted happen? (Luke 20:18)

Week 5. Who is Jesus: the Evangelists on Jesus

        Welcome to the Quotations Bible Study blog. This is the fifth 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 fifth week. Feel free to respond with your own answers. Anonymous comments are permitted. Discussions are encouraged.
        So, enjoy exploring the word together.

Q1: The LORD is speaking to Isaiah: who is the servant, chosen? (Isa. 41:8,9)

Q2: But is the LORD speaking about a group or a particular person? (Isa. 42:1)

Q3: How does the LORD feel about the Servant? (Isa. 42:1)

Q4: What will the LORD send the Servant? (Isa. 42:1)

Q5: The descriptions in Isa. 42:2,3 concern the obedience of the Servant to the LORD’s will. What four behaviors will mark the Servant?

Q6: What will be the result of the Servant’s faithfulness? (Isa. 42:3)

Q7: Is the Servant immune to ordinary failings? (Isa. 42:4)

Q8: Is the Servant’s calling just to Israel? (Isa. 42:4)

Q9: How will the “islands” (Scofield says the Hebrew word means “coasts”; does this mean the whole Mediterranean world? it might) look on the Servant? (Isa. 42:4)

Q10: When we last saw Jesus, His family had settled in Nazareth. (Matt. 2:23). Now He appears before John the Baptist as a full-grown adult. Is the Gospel of Matthew a biography?

Q11: John the Baptist soothed his listeners with comforting words and gentle sayings—true or false? (Matt. 3:7-10)

Q12: John distinguishes himself from the one to come. What four distinctions does John cite? (Matt. 3:11,12)

Q13: Where did Jesus come from? (Matt. 3:13)

Q14: John at first refused to baptize Jesus. Why? (Matt. 3:14)

Q15: On what grounds did Jesus persuade John to baptize Him? (Matt. 3:15)

Q16: What three signs of Jesus initiation into His divine mission followed His baptism? (Matt. 3:16,17)

Q17: Where did Jesus come from? (Mark 1:9)

Q18: What three signs were given immediately after Jesus’ baptism? (Mark 1:10,11)

Q19: John the Baptist presented an agreeable manner—true or false? (Luke 3:7-9)

Q20: John distinguishes himself from the one to come. What four distinctions does John cite? (Luke 3:16,17)

Q21: John, like the legendary old preacher, had “quit preaching and gone to meddling.” What happened with Herod? (Luke 3:19,20)

Q22: What three signs of Jesus initiation into His divine mission follow His baptism? (Luke 3:21,22)

Q23: How old was Jesus by then? (Luke 3:23)

Q24: What three important points about who Jesus is are recorded in the mouth of John the Baptist? (John 1:15,17,18)

Q25: John the Baptist distinguishes himself from the one to come. What distinctions does John cite? (John 1:26,27)

Q26: John the Baptist gives the reason for water baptism. What is it? (John 1:31)

Q27: John records John the Baptist’s testimony as though he had been talking directly to him (which he might well have done). What happened at Jesus’ baptism? (John 1:32,33)

Q28: Who informed John the Baptist of Jesus’ identity and the meaning of what he saw? (John 1:6,34)

Q29: What was the people’s attitude towards the Servant? (Isa. 53:3)

Q30: What did the Servant bear? (Isa. 53:4,5)

Q31: What is the Servant likened to? (Isa. 53:7)

Q32: What did the Servant’s life become? (Isa. 53:10)

Q33: How important was the One to follow, in John’s opinion? (John 1:27,30)

Q34: Why was John baptizing? (John 1:31)

Q35: Where did John get his information? (John 1:33,34)