When Jesus tells the Disciples to allow the Children to come to Him
This is the weekend before passover when Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey
Jesus empties the temple of the money lenders and merchants and starts to really annoy the priests with his teachings.
Jesus curses a fig tree for not having fruit on it - doesn't sound particularly nice until
you see how he teaches the disciple the power of prayer. This is a moving mountains passage too, like the more
famous one in Matthew 17:20.
This is when the religious leaders come to challenge Jesus's authority to teach, the
interesting part is that Jesus offers to answer this question if they answer His, when they profess a lack
of knowledge, Jesus sees through their answer knowing that they are trying to weasel out of answering the question,
and refuses to answer their one!
This is a cool parable I think, and very easy to understand, in it Jesus talks about the land owner who
leaves the country and lets tenant farmers run it. When the land owner sends his servants (and ultimately his son) to
collect his payment of the crops they are murdered by the tenant farmers. Not only is this obviously comparing Jesus to
the son and the Pharisees to the tenants, but it goes on to say that the Pharisees knew what he was getting at too.
This is one parable where it is fully explained at the end.
This parable teaches about how the invited guests (Pharisees/Jews) ingnore the invitation to the banquet,
and so the master (God) invites everyone else (gentiles/us) in their place
Another story of Jesus seeing throught he Pharisees and their trying to trick him so that they can have
an excuse to arrest Him. This time they try and get Him to preach rebellion against the Roman occupation of Israel (and
bring the roman authorities with them to hear this open dissension, of course it backfires on them, making them even more mad at Jesus!
Here Jesus is questioned by the Sadducees as to whom a woman will be married to at the resurrection,
if she was widowed by her previous husband - of course they go to the extreme and have her marry 7 guys!! Jesus knows
they are asking this to disprove the possibility of our own resurrection from the dead, which the Sadducees didn't believe
in, so not only does he tell them the question is stupid (there is no marriage after you are resurrected, maybe you are
too busy getting to worship God up close and personal). He then goes on to answer their hidden question, which is does
the resurrection exist, which He does by quoting God at the burning bush when He refers to Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the
present tense. This quote unfortunately doesn't have as much impact in English as apparently it would have in Hebrew
(otherwise Jesus wouldn't have used it).
This is a follow up question by the Pharisees after the Sadducees had failed in getting Jesus to trip up.
Once again Jesus shows that he is more than up to the task and swiftly answers their question, interestingly he doesn't use
one of the ten commandments to answer this. His answer; love God, and love your neighbour. In Luke this is then followed by the well
known parable of the Good Samaritan, as Jesus goes on to describe who your neighbour is.
I am unsure as to why Jesus asks this question right now, but He asks the Pharisees why they believe the
the Messiah is the son of David if David refers to him as Lord, they of course can't answer, and Mark and Luke give the
impression that he did this to prove to the people that these Pharisees aren't all that they crack themselves up to be
The story of the widow who gives all that she has thus outgiving the rich.
This is a big passage - I have a feeling that I really won't cover it so feel free to help me.
Basically it covers the end times and the return of Christ - it sounds pretty nasty from Jesus's description, which certainly makes me wary. Hopefully we will heed His warning and make sure that we are His, and not the worlds.
Basically it covers the end times and the return of Christ - it sounds pretty nasty from Jesus's description, which certainly makes me wary. Hopefully we will heed His warning and make sure that we are His, and not the worlds.