• Part Second. The Ministry of Jesus in Galilee. Matt. 4:12-18:35.

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MATTHEW

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PART SECOND.

PART SECOND: THE MINISTRY OF JESUS IN GALILEE.

iv. 12-xviii. 35.

§ I. INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS.iv. 12-25.

1. Time and Place. iv. 12-17.

• What change of residence? 13.
• Give the general divisions of Palestine at that time.
• Site and present condition of Capernaum? 13. L. of B., 323.
• Is the scripture cited a direct prediction? 15, 16, cf. Is. ix. 1-7.
• How does the first preaching of Jesus compare with John's? 17, cf. iii. 2.

2. Jesus Calls Four Fishermen. 18-22.

• Meaning of, "fishers of men"? 19.
• Why were they so prompt to obey?

3. A General Statement of the Ministry in Galilee. 23-25.

• Distinguish the three kinds of work mentioned. 23.
• What were synagogues? 23.
• What are devils?
• Where are Syria and Decapolis? 24, 25.
• Does this paragraph refer to a single tour of Galilee, or to all that Jesus made?
• What proved for Jesus in this section? 15, 16, 24.

§ II. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. v. 1-vii. 29.

1. Blessedness and Worth of the Disciples. v. 1-16.

• Define each of the beatitudes.
• Are the first seven, traits [6] of a single character, or of different characters?
• What would be the traits and condition of the opposite character?
• In what sense are the blessed, "the salt of the earth," and, "the light of the world"? 13, 14.
• How are they like, "a city set on a hill," and "a lamp" "on the stand"? 15, 16.

2. Some Modifications of the Moral Law. 17-48.

(1.) Purpose of Jesus concerning the law. 17-20.

• What the distinction between destroy and fulfill? 17.
• What the jot and tittle?
• Till all what things be accomplished? 18.
• Why this denial?
• Why the rule of greatness in 19.
• Why the allusion to scribes and Pharisees? 20.

(2.) The law against killing. 21-26.

• What the judgment? 21, cf. Deut. xvi. 18.
• Meaning of Raca? 22.
• What the council? 22.
• What is hell fire? 22.
• What the difference taught?
• How be reconciled with the brother? 24.
• How does this apply to us?
• Explain the illustration from the adversary. 25, 26.

(3.) The law against adultery. 27-30.

• What the difference taught?
• Application of the remarks about the hand and the foot? 29, 39.

(4.) The law of divorce. 31, 32.

• Difference?
• How cause her to commit adultery?
• What, if put away for fornication?
• Can civil statutes set this law aside? [7]

(5.) The law concerning oaths. 33-37.

• What the difference taught? 33, 34.
• Explain the reason for the prohibition. 37, cf. Jas. v. 12.
• Are judicial oaths included in the prohibition? Cf. Numbers v. 19, 21; Exodus xxii. 11.

(6.) The law of retaliation. 38-42.

• How was the old law executed? 38. See Deut. xix. 18, 21; Ex. xxi. 22-25; Lev. xxiv. 19, 20.
• What the exact meaning of the new precepts? Cf. John xviii. 22, 23.

(7.) How to deal with enemies. 43-48.

• Where had it been said, Love thy neighbor? Lev. xix. 18.
• What kind of love enjoined? 44.
• Where was it said, Hate thine enemy? Ps. cxxxix. 21, 22..
• Show the force of the two reasons. 45, 47.
• Who were the publicans? 47.
• Why say, "Ye therefore shall be perfect" as God is? 48.
• Name the sins rebuked and the virtues commended in this division of the sermon.
• What bearing has this division on precepts of the law not mentioned in it?

3. Against Hypocrisy and Worldly Care. vi. 1-34.

(1.) Hypocrisy in almsgiving. vi. 1-4.

• Why no reward? 1, cf. 2.
• How did the hypocrites sound a trumpet before them? 2.
• Explain the remark about the hands. 3.

(2.) Hypocrisy in prayer. 5-15.

• Point out the wrong in the practice of the hypocrites. 5.
• How, if they had prayed without assuming an attitude of [8] prayer?
• Should a preacher kneel before an audience to offer his private prayers?
• Should anybody?
• Why seek privacy for these prayers. 6.
• What are vain repetitions? 7.
• If our Father knows what we need, why ask him? 8, cf. 7.
• What the invocation in the prayer here taught? 9.
• Was this new?
• What the first three petitions, and the meaning of each? 10, 11.
• What, and for whom the next three? 12, 13.
• What comprehended in these?
• How is "debts" here used? and why? 12, cf. 14.
• Why ask, "bring us not into temptation"? 13, cf. Jas. i. 13.
• How shall we pray, "after the manner"? 9.
• What changes in this prayer for present use? 10; Jno. xvi. 24; Colossians iii. 17.
• Why is it called The Lord's Prayer?

(3.) Hypocrisy in fasting. 16-18.

• What is the professed design of fasting?
• What the hypocrisy condemned?
• How are the fasts of Lent and Ramadan conducted?

(4.) Against care about riches. 19-24.

• What laying up is meant? 19.
• What is it to lay up treasures in heaven?
• What the reasons given? 19, 20.
• Show how the illustration applies? 22, 23.
• What is mammon? 24.
• Why can we not serve two masters?

(5.) Against care about the necessaries of life. 25-34.

• About what things are we not to be anxious? 25, 31, 32, 34.
• Show the force of the reasons given.
• What the true way? 33. [9] 
• Why was grass cast into the oven? 30.
• What are the chief subjects of anxiety with us?
• Why wish us to be free from anxiety?

4. Miscellaneous Precepts. vii. 1-12.

(1.) Against judging. vii. 1-5.

• What limitation to the precept, "judge not"? 1, cf. 16-20.
• What judging then is forbidden?
• By whom shall we be judged as we judge?
• Show the bearing of the illustration. 4, 5.
• Why say, "Thou hypocrite"? 5.
• Must we be free from all faults before correcting other persons?

(2.) A caution in regard to holy things. 6.

• Explain these two precepts.
• Give examples of their application. xvi. 4; Acts xiii. 46.

(3.) Prayer encouraged. 7-11.

• What, if we ask for the wrong thing, or in the wrong way, or for a wrong motive? See vi. 14, 15; Jas. i. 6, 7; iv. 3; First John v. 14.
• Nature and force of the argument? 11.

(4.) A summary of the moral law. 12.

• How is this the law and the prophets?
• By what name is this rule known? and why?
• What is its connection with the other parts of this sermon?

5. The Way of Life. 13-29.

(1.) The way a narrow one. 13, 14.

• Explain the imagery here employed.
• Why is the one way [10] narrow and the other broad?
• May the relative numbers on the roads be changed?

(2.) How to avoid misguidance. 15-20.

• Who meant by, "false prophets"? 15.
• Into which way would they lead us?
• What are their fruits? 16.

(3.) The way not by prayer and miracles alone. 21-23.

• What erroneous opinions here corrected?
• What the value of prayer without obedience?
• What do miracles prove?

(4.) The way pointed out. 24-27.

• What is the way?
• Why a narrow one?
• By, "these words" does Jesus mean the words of the sermon alone?
• Give the plan of the whole sermon.

(5.) Effect of the sermon. 28, 29.

• What the chief effect?
• What kind of authority was it?
• What to be inferred from his assuming such authority?
• What is most striking in the sermon to us?

§ III. A SERIES OF MIRACLES.viii. 1-ix. 34.

1. A Leper Cleansed. viii. 1-4.

• Why did the multitude follow him? 1, cf. vii. 28, 29.
• Meaning of, "worshipped him"? 2.
• Why think Jesus could make him clean? 2.
• Why did Jesus touch him? 3.
• Why the term cleansed? 3.
• Why show himself to the priest? and what the gift? 4; Lev. xiv. 1-10.
• How was the gift, "for a testimony unto them"?
• Did Jesus believe that Moses wrote Leviticus? 4. [11]

2. Healing a Servant of a Centurion. 5-13.

• What was a centurion? 5.
• Why was one in Capernaum?
• How did he show so great faith? 8-10.
• Whence had he obtained it?
• How could Jesus marvel? 10.
• Who from the east and the west? and what kingdom? 11.
• Who the sons of the kingdom? and what the outer darkness? 12.

3. Cares at Peter's Houses. 14-17.

• Why say, "the spirits"? 16.
• How did he take, "our infirmities, and bear our diseases"? 17.

4. A Conversation about Following Jesus. 18-22.

• The other side of what? 18, cf.viii. 5, 23, 24.
• Why the answer to the scribe? 20.
• Why that to the disciple? 22.
• Use of the word dead? 22.
• Who could this disciple have been? iv. 21, cf. xx. 20; xxvii. 56.

5. Jesus Stills a Great Tempest. 23-27.

• If the boat was covered with waves, how could he be asleep? 24, cf. Mark iv. 38.
• What caused him to sleep? Cf. 16.
• How did their fear prove their faith little? 26.
• Why did they marvel? 27.

6. Two Fierce Demoniacs Healed. 28-34.

• Meaning of Gadarenes? L. of B., 357.
• Why in the tombs? 28.
• How did they know Jesus? 29.
• Meaning of, "torment us before the time"? 29.
• Why wish to go into the swine? 31.
• Why did the swine rush into the sea? and what the effect on the [12] demons? 32.
• Why the flight of the swine-herds? 33.
• Why the request of the people? 34.
• Why allow the destruction of the swine?

7. Healing a Paralytic. ix. 1-8.

• Which was, "his own city"? 1, cf. iv. 13.
• How was their faith seen? 2.
• On what ground the sins forgiven? 2.
• Why the charge of blasphemy? 3.
• Show the force of his reply. 5-7.
• Why did not miracles wrought by others prove that they also could forgive sins?
• Why this man forgiven, and not others who were healed?

8. The Call of Matthew and a Feast in His House. 9-13.

• What was, "the place of toll"? 9.
• Why say, "in the house," rather than in his house? 10.
• Ground of the objection? 11.
• Why were the guests publicans and sinners? 10.
• State and explain the points of defense. 12, 13.

9. A Question about Fasting. 14-17.

• Were the disciples of John now disciples of Jesus? 14.
• How often did they fast? See Luke xviii. 12.
• Explain the three reasons given. 15-17.
• How were wine-skins prepared? and how used?

10. Raising a Ruler's Daughter and Healing an Issue
of Blood. 18-26.

• Ruler of what? 18.
• What faith in Jesus had he and the woman? 18, 21.
• What had brought them to this faith?
• How [13] did the woman's faith make her whole? 22.
• Why the flute-players and the tumult? 23, cf. Jer. ix. 17, 18; Amos v. 16.
• Why say, "the damsel is not dead"? 24.

11. Giving Sight to Two Blind Men. 27-31.

• Why say, "thou son of David"? 27.
• Why ask if they believed he was able? 28.
• Why forbid them to tell of the cure? and why their disobedience? 30, 31.

12. A Dumb Demoniac Healed. 32-34.

• What had made the man dumb?
• Why the charge of the Pharisees?
• Why not credit other miracles to the same power?
• What opposition from them has been mentioned thus far? See 3, 11, 14.
• What diseases cured, and what other powers exhibited in this section?
• What does the exercise of such power prove for Jesus?
• Which of the paragraphs are consecutive?

§ IV. THE FIRST MISSION OF THE APOSTLES. ix. 35-x. 42.

1. The Occasion of This Commission. ix. 35-x. 1.

• What the connection of ix. 35? Cf. iv. 23.
• Why the comparison to sheep? ix. 36.
• What had specially brought them into this condition? See iv. 12; xiv. 3-5.
• Explain the figure of the harvest? ix. 37.
• How long should the prayer for laborers be continued? ix. 38.
• What motive prompted this commission? ix. 36.
• Where had he obtained twelve disciples? x. 1, cf. iv. 18-22; ix. 9.

2. The Names of the Twelve. x. 2-4.

• Why give their names?
• Why say, "The first"? 2.
• Why [14] say, "the publican," when he had ceased to be one? 3.
• Meaning of, "Cananæan"? 4.
• Meaning of Iscariot? 4.
• Why name them in pairs?

3. Their Commission. 5-15.

• Why only to Israel? 5, cf. x. 23.
• Why say, "lost sheep"? 6.
• What were they to preach? and why? 7.
• Why the miracles?
• "Freely give", what? 8.
• Why get no money, food, or clothing? 10.
• What kind of staff?
• How would the peace return? 13.
• Why shake off the dust? 14.
• Why more tolerable? 15.

4. Persecutions Predicted. 16-23.

• What the points of comparison to sheep? 16.
• In what respect are serpents wise? 16.
• How, "for a testimony to them"? 18.
• How could they avoid anxiety? 19.
• Meaning of, "not ye that speak, but the Spirit"? 20.
• "To the end" of what? 22.
• Why, "flee into the next"? 23.
• What coming of the Son of man? 23.

5. Motives for Endurance Presented. 24-33.

• Force of that from disciple and teacher? 24, 25.
• Of that from revealing what is hidden? 26, 27.
• Of that from power to destroy? 28.
• Force of contrast with sparrows? 29-31.
• Bearing of remark about confessing and denying? 32, 33.

6. The Design of Persecutions. 34-39.

• Meaning of, "not to send peace, but a sword"? 34.
• In what sense did he send a sword?
• What was his design, as here indicated?
• Explain the remark about finding and losing. 39. [15]

7. Kindness to Disciples to be Rewarded. 40-42.

• In what sense, "receiveth me"? 40.
• Meaning of, "in the name"? 41, 42.
• What the reward?
• State the plan of the speech here brought to a close.
• Did the persecutions predicted occur under their first mission?
• What evidence for the claims of Jesus in this section?

§ V. DISCOURSE ON THE REJECTION OF JOHN AND OF JESUS.xi. 1-30.

1. Occasion of the Discourse. xi. 1-6.

• Where were the twelve at the time? 1, cf. x. 1, 5.
• What the exact point in John's question? and why propounded? 2, 3.
• What the bearing of the answer? 4-6.

2. Comments on the Career of John. 7-15.

• What traits of character pointed out? 7, 8.
• In what was he greater than other prophets? 11, cf. 10.
• In what is one, "little in the kingdom" greater than he? 11.
• What the meaning and reference of verse 12?
• In what sense was John, the Elijah who was to come? 14, cf. Malachi iv. 5, 6.

3. Childishness of the Unbelievers. 16-19.

• What plays of children are referred to? and what the point of comparison?
• How is wisdom justified by her works? 19.
• What the bearing of this remark? [16]

4. The Cities Which Rejected Jesus Upbraided. 20-24.

• In what sense were most of his mighty works done in these cities?
• Had none of the people there repented? 20.
• Why more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon and for Sodom?
• Meaning of, "go down unto Hades"? 23.
• Locate all these cities.

5. A Thanksgiving and an Invitation. 25-30.

• Who the wise? and who the babes? 25.
• How these things hid from the former? Cf. xiii. 15; First Corinthians i. 21, 26, 28.
• Why thankful for this?
• When were all things given to Jesus? 27, cf. xxviii. 18.
• What knowledge is meant in 27?
• What connection between ix. 27 and the invitation?
• What labor and what rest? 28, 29.
• If Jesus was only a man, what should we think of this paragraph?
• Give the plan of the whole discourse.

§ VI. SOME DISPUTATIONS WITH PHARISEES. xii. 1-8.

1. About Sabbath-breaking. xii. 1-8.

• Why go through the fields of grain? 1.
• Why appeal to David's unlawful act? 3, 4, cf. First Samuel xxi. 1-6.
• How did the priests "profane" the sabbath? 5.
• What, "greater than the temple"? 6, cf. 8.
• Bearing of the quotation? 7.
• What was the error of the Pharisees?

2. About Sabbath-breaking Again. 9-21.

• What the force of his argument? 11.
• Why wish to destroy him? and what destruction?
• Why charge the people not to make him known? 15, 16.
• Show the meaning and fulfilment [17] of the prediction quoted. 17-20, cf. Is. xlii. 1-4.
• What sabbath work justified in these two paragraphs?
• What work, then, was prohibited in the fourth commandment?

3. About Casting Out Demons. 22-30.

• Why say, "Is this the son of David?" 23.
• What plausibility in the charge? 24.
• Show the force of the first argument. 25, 26.
• Who the "sons," and what the point in referring to them? 27.
• Explain the last argument. 28, 29.
• Connection of the remark about being with him and against him? 30.

4. About the Sin not Pardonable. 31-37.

• In what sense shall every sin be forgiven? 31.
• Why worse to speak against the Holy Spirit than against the Son? 32.
• What was their sin, and the source of it? 33, 34, cf. 24, 28.
• Can a man speak wickedly and have a good heart? 35.
• What are "idle" words? 36, 37.

5. About a Demand for a Sign. 38-45.

• What implied in asking to see a sign? 38.
• Why say no sign shall be given but the one mentioned? 39.
• How was he three days and nights in the earth? 40.
• How shall the Ninevites rise in the judgment with that generation? 41.
• In what sense shall they condemn it?
• Point of comparison in the case of the unclean spirit? 45.
• What is here learned about unclean spirits? [18]

6. About His Mother and His Brothers. 46-50.

• What the design of his answer?
• Can Mary, according to this, be an intercessor between Jesus and his disciples?

§ VII. A SERIES OF PARABLES.xiii. 1-52.

1. The Parable of the Sower. xiii. 1-9.

• On what day? 1.
• Why into a boat? 2.
• What is a parable? 3.
• In what does the interpretation of one consist?
• How can we ascertain the subject illustrated? and the points of analogy?
• When Jesus gives an interpretation, what are we told to do?
• Show the fidelity to nature in this parable.

2. Why He Spoke in Parables. 10-17.

• When was this question propounded? 10, cf. xiii. 2, 36.
• What suggested it?
• Explain the reason given. 12, 13.
• Had they opened their ears and eyes, how would it have been with them? 15.
• How was it with the disciples? 16, 17.

3. The Parable of the Sower Explained. 18-23.

• What cause of failure is common to the first three?
• Explain how the word was taken out of the heart of each.
• How did the fourth differ from the others?
• What, then, is the practical lesson of the parable.

4. Parable of the Tares. 24-30.

5. Parable of the Mustard Seed. 31, 32.

• How was the kingdom like this? [19]

6. Parable of the Leaven. 33.

• How like this?
• Why, "three measures of meal"? and why, "a woman"?

7. His Speaking in Parables a Matter of Prophecy.
34, 35; Ps. lxxviii. 2.

• How true that, "without a parable spake he nothing unto them"? 34, cf. 1, 2.
• Was the prediction fulfilled in Jesus only?

8. The Parable of the Tares Explained. 36-43.

• What the points of comparison? 40-43.
• In what sense is the word kingdom here used? 41, cf. 38.
• Why the prohibition against pulling tares not mentioned in the explanation?

9. Parable of the Hid Treasure. 44.

• What the points of comparison?

10. Parable of the Pearls. 45, 46.

• What difference in meaning between this and the last?

11. Parable of the Net. 47-50.

• What the analogy?
• Difference in meaning between this and the tares?

12. The Parables Understood. 51, 52.

• What enables them to understand those not explained?
• What the point in the comparison to a householder? 52.
• What predictions in these parables that have been fulfilled?
• What, yet not fulfilled?
• What is proved in this section for Jesus? [20]

§ VIII. PHASES OF OPINION CONCERNING JESUS. xiii. 53-58.

1. The Opinion of the Nazarenes. xiii. 53-58.

• How many synagogues in Nazareth? 54.
• What did the people admit? 54.
• What was their unbelief? 57, 58.
• What the ground of it? 55, 56.
• Why is a prophet not without honor except at home? 57.
• Why did their unbelief prevent more miracles? 58, cf. vii. 6.
• As they said the worst they could of him, what must have been his early character?

2. The Opinion of Herod. xiv. 1-12.

• What Herod? and what his office? 1. See Luke iii. 1; Josephus, Antiquities, Book XVII. Chapter viii. 1.
• How did he reach the conclusion that Jesus was John?
• What fear of the multitude? 5.
• Who was Herodias? Josephus, Ant. B. XVII. C. v. 1.
• Why did John venture to rebuke Herod? 4.
• What the mode of dancing? 6.
• Did the oath bind him to grant the request?
• Why go and tell Jesus? 12.

3. Excitement among the People and Feeding the Five Thousand. 13-21.

• Why withdraw immediately into the desert? 13, cf. 12, 23.
• Why did so many follow? and without food? 13-15.
• How find grass in a, "desert place"? 19, cf. 13.
• The motive for this miracle? 14.
• Its process?
• What was thought of Jesus by this multitude? [21]

4. Walking on the Water and Faith of the Disciples.
22-33.

• What followed the feeding? and why? 22, 23.
• How long did he pray? and why so long? 23, 25.
• Why did the disciples not turn back? 24.
• Why think it an apparition? and why cry out for fear? 26.
• Why Peter's request? 28.
• What doubt? and why cause him to sink? 30, 31.
• What now the opinion of the disciples? 33.

5. Cures in Gennesaret. 34-36.

• Describe the land of Gennesaret? L. of B., 321, 322.
• What was the opinion of these people?

6. An Attack by Pharisees from Jerusalem. xv. 1-20.

• What was their motive in coming?
• What was the tradition of the elders? 2.
• Show how the tradition made void the word of God. 3-6.
• Meaning and application of xv. 9?
• Why should worship according to precepts of men be vain?
• Do such things often make void the word?
• What was his answer to the question of the Pharisees? 3, 11.
• Why the question of the disciples? and what the point in his answer? 12, 13.
• Why both fall into a pit? 14.
• Why could not the disciples understand this teaching? 15, 16.
• What the real source of all wickedness? 18, 19.
• What opinion of Jesus had the Pharisees? [22]

§ IX. TOURS OF TYRE AND SIDON, AND CÆSAREA PHILIPPI.
xv. 21-xvii. 23.

1. A Woman of Great Faith. xv. 21-28.

• Where were Tyre and Sidon, and what the ancestry of the people?
• Why say, "son of David"? 22.
• Why no answer? 23.
• Send her away how? 23.
• How did the woman show, "great faith"?

2. Cures at the Lake Shore and Feeding the Four Thousand.
29-39.

• On which side of the lake? 29, 39.
• How did Jesus get there from Tyre?
• What change in these people since he was first there? 30, cf. viii. 34.
• How long without food? 32.
• What the site of Magadan? L. of B., 321.

3. A Sign from Heaven Demanded. xvi. 1-4.

• Why did the Sadducees join in? 1.
• In what sense tempting him? 1.
• What meant by, "a sign from heaven"?
• How was the sign of Jonah of this kind?
• Point in the reference to the signs of the weather? 2, 3.
• Signs of what times? 3.
• Does Jesus here rebuke the desire for the evidence of miracles? 4.

4. A Warning against Pharisees and Sadducees. 5-12.

• To which side of the lake? 5, cf. xvi. 13; xv. 39.
• What their habit in reference to bread? 5.
• How reconcile this with x. 9, 10?
• Why the reference to the miraculous feedings? 9, 10.
• Why was the teaching of these parties called leaven? 12. [23]

5. Peter's Confession. 13-20.

• Give the location and history of Cæsarea Philippi. 13; L. of B., 335.
• Why the two questions? 13, 15.
• Why these erroneous opinions? 14.
• Full meaning of Peter's answer? 16.
• Explain the remark about how it was revealed to him. 17.
• Meaning of Bar-Jonah? 17.
• To what is the church here compared? and what the positions assigned to Jesus and Peter? 18, 19.
• What then is the rock? 18, cf. 16.
• Explain the expression, "gates of Hades." 18.
• In what sense shall they not "prevail"?
• What is meant by the keys? and what binding and loosing referred to? 19.
• On what occasions did Peter use the keys? Acts ii. 1-47; x. 1-48.
• Why forbid them now to tell that he was the Christ? 20.

6. Jesus Predicts His Own Death and Resurrection. 21-28.

• Why, "from that time"? 21.
• Why did Peter rebuke him? 22.
• Why call Peter Satan? 23.
• What the things of God and the things of men? 23.
• Meaning of, "take up his cross"? 24.
• Explain the remark about saving and losing life. 25, 26.
• Distinguish the two comings of 27, 28.

7. The Transfiguration. xvii. 1-8.

• What mountain? 1, cf. xvi. 13.
• How did the disciples recognize Moses and Elijah? 3, 4.
• Why Peter's proposal? 4.
• Significance of, "hear ye him"? 5.
• What the purpose of the vision? [24]

8. Comments on the Vision. 9-13.

• Why tell no man? 9.
• Why their question? 10, cf. Mal. iv. 5.
• How could John be the Elijah of Malachi?

9. A Boy with Epilepsy Healed. 14-21.

• Cause of the epilepsy? 18.
• Why the exclamations of 17?
• Connection of faith with the working of miracles? 20.

10. Second Prediction of His Death and Resurrection. 22, 23.

• Why a different effect? 23, cf. xvi. 22.
• What is proved for Jesus in this section?

§ X. CLOSING EVENTS IN GALILEE. xvii. 24-xviii. 35.

1. Jesus Pays the Temple Tribute. xvii. 24-27.

• How do we know it was the temple tribute?
• Nature of the miracle?
• Its purpose?
• What the two coins mentioned? 2, 27, cf. margin.

2. About Who Shall be Greatest. xviii. 1-9.

• Turn from what? 3.
• In what respect like children? 3, 4.
• Why such the greatest?
• Meaning of, "cause" "to stumble"? 6.
• Point in the illustration from the hand and the eye? 8, 9.

3. About Despising a Disciple. 10-14.

• What kind of a disciple is meant? and what the connection with the preceding remarks?
• Meaning of, "despise"?
• Bearing of the remark about, "their angels"? 10.
• Of that about the shepherd and his sheep? 12-14. [25]

4. How to Deal with an Offending Brother. 15-20.

• Show the wisdom of this course.
• Why speak of the church before it existed? 17.
• How as a Gentile and a publican? 17.
• What binding and loosing? 18.

5. About Forgiving a Brother. 21-35.

• What suggested Peter's question? 21, cf. 15.
• What the two sums of money? 24, 28.
• Why sell and imprison? 25, 30.
• Explain the parable.
• Meaning of, "forgive from your hearts"? 35.
• What proved for Jesus in this section.

[CNSH3 6-25]