Gospel Packet: Christology Chapter 2

teacher or rabbi

In summary, in Matthew's gospel, Jesus was primarily a ___________________________.

The Eucharist and baptism

In the piercing of the spear into Jesus' side after he has died on the cross, the blood and water that flowed may symbolize ____________________

baptism

Luke 3:21-22 is about the ____________of Jesus.

to all people, including Gentiles

The following passages show Luke's emphasis on Jesus' message also being not just the Jews, but _________________________________

Adam the son of God- Joseph

The genealogy of Jesus begins with ___________________________ and goes back to ___________.

Ressurrection

The seventh and last section of Matthew's gospel is located in chapters 26 - 28. These chapters deal with Jesus' passion, death, and ________________________________.

Moses

Think back to your Hebrew Scriptures course. The greatest Jewish hero in the whole of the Hebrew Scriptures was _______________________

caring and tender to the poor, lowly, outcast, and the sinners

Throughout the gospel, Luke calls upon the Christian disciple to identify with the master Jesus, who is ___________________________________________ and the afflicted.

Baptism

Unlike Matthew and Luke which describe Jesus' birth, and John which talks about Jesus' heavenly origin, Mark's gospel considers Jesus' importance to have begun with his __________________

behavior

While the Ten commandments of Moses are meant to be minimum standards of acceptable EXTERNAL BEHAVIOR, the Beatitudes instead offer ideals of INTERIOR _____________________.

unclean spirits

a. Jesus' real identity remained a secret during his whole life. The only ones who correctly identified him were ___________________________ (Mk 1:24, 3:11, 5:7). These witnesses or identifiers of Jesus called him the Holy One of God or Son of God.

meals

Both perform ritual ________

12

Both share the number ___

The death of every newborn son

Both were threatened with ______________________

Parables- Matthew 8: 1 - 11:1

Contains six ___

Faith

Deals with "church order" and the care that disciples must exert to protect each other's (18: 3 - 35) ___________________

king or ruler

It appears it was permissible for Gentiles to identify Jesus (Mk 5:19), but the Jews were not to know his true identity because they would mistakenly conclude that he was an earthly_______________________.

his disciple making Jesus's true identity known as the Messiah

Jesus himself warned against _______________________________

12 disciples- Matthew 8: 1 - 11:1

Jesus' instructions to His ______

Ascension of Jesus

Luke ends with the ____________________________________________

women

Luke's gospel includes many _____________________

Galilee

Mark believes that Jesus will appear on earth in the near future. Mark 14:28 and 16:7 both note that Jesus will see his disciples in ____________________________.

gospel; that Jesus Christ is here! (or Kingdom of God)

Mark is the only one of the four gospels to call itself a ______________________ (see Mk 1:1, 1:15, 8:35, 10:29) and claims the "good news that Jesus Christ is ___________________________ "

Spirit

No gospel writer is more concerned than Luke with the role of the _______________________________________________ in the life of Jesus and the Christian disciple

Passion; servant

Peter calls Jesus "the Messiah" in Mark 8:29, but to make sure he does not misinterpret this title as a political claim, in 8:31 - 33, Jesus immediately makes his first prediction of ________________________. In other words, for Jesus, "Messiah" and "Christ" do not mean powerful ruler, but "suffering __________________"

the marginalized

Read Lk. 1:48, Lk, 2:7, 2:8-20, 4:18, 6:20-23, 12:15...this shows Luke's emphasis on the favored position that Jesus gives to _____________________________________________.

Two foundation- Matthew 3: 1 - 7:29

Sermon on the ________

literary and symbolic

The Gospel of John is quite different than the synoptic gospels as it is highly ______________________________ and ________________________________

all nations; Jew and Gentile

The Jews did not have exclusive rights on Jesus' teachings. Matthew 28:10 advises the apostles to make disciples of ________________________________.

Syrian

The author is supposedly a ___________________________ from Antioch.

Judgement- Matthew 19:3 - 26: 2

Deals with theme of

Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Salome

1. Mark does not include (in his original ending) any account of an appearance of the risen Jesus to the apostles. His is the only gospel to omit these appearances. Instead, Jesus' resurrection is first revealed to (Mk 16:1, 6): __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________

70 CE

1. Mark's Gospel is the shortest and probably the oldest gospel. Since Mark 13:1 talks vividly about the events of the persecution and destruction of the Temple, which took place in 70 CE, this gospel was most likely written sometime near the year ____________________.

Infancy Narrative; John

1. What is the section labeled II. (Roman numeral two) called in Luke? The ________________ ____________________________ which actually begin with the announcement of the birth of ___________________________.

proclaimed

Although, the above-mentioned "messianic secret" was often ________________________

Joseph

Both Jesus and Moses were preceded by dreamer _________

commandments

Both gave their people _____________

miracles that provided food

Both involve with miraculous __________

Egypt

Both lived in _____

Messiah

Matthew is the only gospel to start with a genealogy. He does this in order to show that Jesus has the proper Jewish lineage to be the (1:16) _________________________.

The Pentateuch (The Torah)

Matthew wanted Jesus' five discourses to parallel the five books attributed to Moses in the Hebrew Scriptures. These five books are known as the _______________________.

Acts of the Apostles

More than twenty-five percent of the New Testament is written by Luke. The gospel according to Luke is the first part of a two-volume work. The second volume is the New Testament book called _______________________________________________

pity, sternness, anger, amaze, indignant, troubled

Name 6 of Jesus' emotions that He displays

women

No gospel writer is more concerned than Luke with Jesus' concern for __________________________________

mercy and compassion of Jesus

No gospel writer is more concerned than Luke with the ___________________________ and ______________________________ of Jesus.

prayer

No gospel writer is more concerned than Luke with the importance of _____________________________

The Word; divinity

John begins with symbolic and quite poetic language to describe Jesus as the _________ (in Latin Logos) who was with God in the beginning of Creation and who became flesh to live among us. (Jn 1:1). This shows us John's emphasis on Jesus' _____________________

signs

John then focuses on seven ___________________________ (introduction and as categorized starting at Jn 1:19), the author trying to show the significance of these miraculous deeds.

genealogy

Judging from the opening passage of Matthew's gospel, with its reference to the Jewish heroes David and Abraham, the theme of this gospel seems to be an emphasis on Jesus' Jewish ___________________________.