Luke 9: Feeding the Five Thousand
How did Jesus give his disciples authority for healing and deliverance? In this ministry, what do you think Judas’s role was?
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Why did Jesus say they were not to take provisions for their time away? How well did they follow those instructions?
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What were the disciples to do when they were either received or rejected?
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How effective was the disciples’ ministry? Did they gain their own loyal followers, as John had? Why?
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Why did some people think someone’s spirit had returned from the dead? What did Herod think?
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What was Jesus doing while the disciples were away? When they met later, what kinds of stories did they have to tell?
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What good was a place distant from town if a huge crowd followed?
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Why didn’t people have food with them?
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How absurd was Jesus’ instruction for the disciples to feed the crowd?
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What did the crowd think when they were asked to divide into groups of fifty?
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Where and how did the multiplication of fish and bread take place? How was the food delivered?
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Why did people have different opinions about who Jesus was? What were they?
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What was unusual about Peter’s perception of Jesus? What would Judas have said?
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Why did Jesus’ identity need to be kept secret?
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How much of Jesus’ explanation about his future did the disciples understand?
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What did Jesus mean when he said, “Take up your cross”? Why was that important?
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For what reasons are people ever “ashamed” of Jesus? What is God’s reaction if we are ashamed?
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Jesus said some would see the Kingdom before they died, which also tells us that some would not? What distinguished the two groups?
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How might news of Jesus’ coming death have affected what the three disciples thought when they saw him with Moses and Elijah? What did they understand? What might they have missed?
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Why were three shrines not a bright idea? Why did Peter suggest it?
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If the three disciples didn’t tell anyone about what happened on the mountain, how did the event become known?
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Why had a large crowd gathered when Jesus wasn’t there?
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Who was Jesus frustrated with? Why?
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When brought to Jesus, why did the possessed boy go into convulsions and fall to the ground? Why were people amazed when the boy was delivered?
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Why did the disciples not understand the “betrayal” that Jesus talked about?
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How often might the disciples have argued about who would be the greatest? Why? In what way did Judas contribute to the argument?
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How can the “least” be the “greatest”?
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What does it mean to welcome someone “in Jesus’ name”?
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How could someone who was not a part of Jesus’ group be casting out evil spirits? Why did Jesus say this was okay?
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Why did the Samaritans refuse Jesus? What made his going to Jerusalem a problem for them?
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Why were James and John so angry with the Samaritans? What made them think they could call fire from above?
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What was wrong with James and John’s desire to see the Samaritan’s judged?
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What did Jesus mean when he said, “The Son of Man has no home where he can lay his head”?
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When Jesus invites people to follow him, what excused might they make?
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What is wrong with “looking back”? Why might that be a benefit?