Chapter 1

Chapter 1

1:1 Who is this book about? What is its message about?

1:2-8, 9-13 You might want to use your own words to express each section. And then you might want to act it as a play.

1:2 Who would God use in order to speak to people? Why would God give this message?

1:3 What would people hear? What should they do? What could you do for that purpose?

1:4 What do you learn about the messenger? What do you learn about his message? What should you do?

1:5 What were people doing? What did they have to do before John baptised them?

1:6 What do you learn about how John lived?

1:7 What do you learn about the man who would come? What do you learn about John?

1:8 What do you learn about the baptism that John gave? And what do you learn about the man who would come? How would he baptise people?

1:9 What did Jesus do? What did John do?

1:10 What happened when Jesus came up out of the water?

1:11 What do you learn about the Person who spoke? What do you learn about Jesus?

1:12 What did Jesus do immediately? Why did he do that?

1:13 Where was Jesus? What was Satan doing? What were the angels doing?

1:14 Who is the main person in this story after this? What happened to John? Where did the good news come from?

1:15 What are three parts of Jesus' message? What do you have to do?

1:16-20 You might use your own words to express this. And then you might act it as a play.

1:16 Where was Jesus? What were Simon and Andrew doing? Why were they doing that?

1:17 What did Jesus tell Simon and Andrew to do? What did Jesus promise?

1:18 What did Simon and Andrew do?

1:19 Who did Jesus see? What was the relationship between those two men? What were they doing?

1:20 What did James and John do when Jesus called them? Who did they leave behind?

1:21-28 You might use your own words to express this. And then you might want to act it as a play.

1:21 What did Jesus do with his new disciples?

1:22 What was the people's reaction to what Jesus taught? What did the people think about what Jesus taught?

1:23 What do you learn about the man who was in the meeting place?

1:24 Who did the evil spirit in the man recognise? What did the evil spirit expect Jesus to do?

1:25 What did Jesus do? What did Jesus say?

1:26 What did the evil spirit do? What do you learn about this spirit?

1:27 What did the people do? What surprised the people?

1:28-31 You might use your own words to express this. And then you might want to act it as a play.

1:28 What happened to the news about Jesus?

1:29 What did Jesus do? Who did he take with him? Where did they go?

1:30 Who was sick? What did the disciples do? When did they do that?

1:31 What happened to the woman? What did she do?

1:32-34 You might use your own words to express this. And then you might want to act it as a play.

1:32 When did some people bring other people to Jesus? Why was that perhaps a good time? What were the people suffering from?

1:33 What happened?

1:34 What actions did Jesus do? What do you learn about some illnesses? What do you learn about evil spirits? Why did Jesus not allow the evil spirits to speak?

1:35-39 You might use your own words to express this. And then you might want to act it as a play.

1:35 When did Jesus get up from bed? Where did Jesus go to then? What did Jesus do?

1:36 What did Simon do?

1:37 What did Simon and the other people say to Jesus when they found him?

1:38 What did Jesus reply? What was Jesus' plan? Why did Jesus say that he wanted to do that?

1:39 Where did Jesus go? What did Jesus do?

1:40-45 You might use your own words to express this. And then you might want to act it as a play.

1:40 Who came to Jesus? What did the men do? What did the men believe?

1:41 What do you learn about Jesus? What did Jesus do for the man?

1:42 What happened to the man? What was the result for the man? When did it happen?

1:43 What do you learn about Jesus?

1:44 What did Jesus tell the man to do? What does that show you about Jesus' attitude to Moses? What does it show you about Jesus' attitude to sacrifice? What would the man's actions achieve?

1:45 What did the man do? What difference did that make for Jesus? What did the people do?