Search The Scriptures — Study 59 —Luke 23:32-43

Study 59 From The Book of Luke Is:

Luke 23:32-43

   1.     Consider (a) the attitude to Jesus’ suffering of the different people mentioned, and (b) His attitude to them.

    2.     Verses 39-43. What brought this criminal to the repentance and faith? What may we learn (a) from his confession and request, and (b) from Jesus’ response to his prayer? Cf. Lk.18:13, 14

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Search The Scriptures — Study 58 —Luke 23:13-31

Study 58 From The Book of Luke Is:

Luke 23:13-31

1.     Trace in this chapter the stages in Pilate’s capitulation. What was his ruling motive? What would you have done in his place?

2.     Verses 26-31. Try to picture Jesus on the way to crucifixion. What impression must His condition and His words have made on the bystanders? What occasioned this warning and implied call for repentance?

Note.  Verse 31. A proverbial expression probably meaning here: ‘if the Romans so treat the innocent Jesus, what will be the face of the guilty Jerusalem?

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Search The Scriptures — Study 57 —Luke 22:63-23:12

Study 57 From The Book of Luke Is:

Luke 22:63-23:12

   1.   How would you describe the attitude to Jesus of the following people: the guards, the religious leaders, Pilate, Herod? What sort of people are their counterparts today? Have they anything to teach us?

   2.  Consider what Jesus had to suffer, and how He bore it.  Read 1 Pet.      2:19-23; Phil. 2:5-8.

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Search The Scriptures — Study 56 —Luke 22:47-62

Study 56 From The Book of Luke Is:

Luke 22:47-62

    1.     Verses 47-54.  Compare the attitude of Jesus with that of His disciples (Cf. also Mk. 14:50), and His enemies.  What made the difference? Do verses 41, 42, 45, 46 suggest an answer?

    2.     Verses 54-62. What does this passage show both of the strength and of the weakness of Peter? Trace the stages of his failure from verse 33 to verse 60.  What brought him to repentance?

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Search The Scriptures — Study 55 —Luke 22:31-46

Study 55 of "Search The Scriptures” Is:

Luke 22:31-46

    1.     Verses 31-34.  Compare the empty confidence of Peter with Jesus’s knowledge of his danger.  What may we learn from this? What is the safeguard against similar failure?

    2.     Verses 39-46 Why did Jesus shrink from the cross? Could the physical suffering alone have caused this? What does this teach us both about Jesus Himself and about His death? Consider your share in the responsibility for that agony.

3.     What sort of impression of the quality of Jesus’s disciples do you get from this passage as a whole? Is this an encouragement to you?

Notes

1.     Verse 32. Jesus’s prayer referred not to the denial (He knew Peter would deny Him) , but to the time after it, when Peter’s role would be vital.  For he would be the key to the restoration of the whole group of disciples, who were all to be the objects of Satan’s attack. Note that ‘you’, verse 31, is plural and ‘you’ verse 32 is singular.

2.     Verse 36.  Not a command to resist, but a picturesque warning of dangerous times ahead.  Cf. Mt. 26:52.

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Search The Scriptures — Study 54 —Luke 22:14-30

Study 54 From The Book of Luke Is:

Luke 22:14-30

    1.     Verses 14-23. What indication do you find in this passage o f (a) the necessity and (b) the purpose of Jesus’ death?

    2.     Verses 24-30.  How does Jesus here reverse the world’s standards? Consider how His own life and work exemplified His teaching.

Note. Verses 19b, 20. Luke’s Gospel apparently did not originally contain the fuller account of the institution of the Lord’s Super found in Matthew, Mark and 1 Corinthians 11, from which it was later inserted here. 

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Search The Scriptures — Study 53 —Luke 22:1-13

Study 53 From The Book of Luke Is:

Luke 22:1-13

    1.     Verses 1-6. As events move towards the climax, what interested parties are mentioned here, and what is the attitude of each to Jesus?  What ought we to learn from the part played by Judas, who was ‘of the numbers of the twelve’?

    2.     Verses 7-13.  Do you think it is significant that Jesus’ death occurred at Passover time? Cf. 1 Cor. 5:7; Ex. 12:3-13; 1 Pet. 1:18-20.

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