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THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- What are offenses?
- Why is impossible for offences not to come?
- If it is impossible for them not to come, then why does Jesus pronounce
a woe upon those who cause them?
- Who are "these little ones?"
- What are we to do if our brother sins against us? What is a necessary
condition to forgiveness?
- Are we ever justified in withholding forgiveness, when a brother
repents?
- Why do you think the apostles felt a need for their faith to be increased?
How is faith increased?
- What would be possible to them, if they had faith the size of a grain
of mustard seed? Explain that kind of faith. Of what is Jesus speaking?
- What is Jesus' purpose in relating the story about the servant and
master in vv. 7-10? Why will we always be unprofitable servants?
- In v. 11, where is Jesus headed?
- Who met Him in one of the villages? Why did they stand afar off?
- How many were there of them? How many returned to thank Jesus, once
they were healed on the way? Of what nationality was he? Why is he called a stranger?
- What were the Pharisees demanding of Jesus?
- What did Jesus mean by, "The kingdom of God cometh not with
observation"?
- What did He mean by, "…the kingdom of God is within you"?
- What do you think Jesus refers to by the phrases "…days of the
Son of man…" (v. 22); "…so shall the Son of man be in his day" (v. 24); "…in the days of the
Son of man (v. 26); "Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed" (v. 30) and "In
that day…" (v. 31)?
- There are two historical accounts which serve as models of things
that would happen in the days of the Son of man. What are the two accounts? Of what are the models?
- Why should they remember Lot's wife?
- Jesus predicted instances where there would be two's but one would
be taken and one would be left. Of what time does He speak? V. 37, will help you understand what He is predicting
by the answer He gives to His apostles.
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