Chapter 4

Chapter 4

4:1 What was happening? Use your own words to describe it. Who was there?

4:2 What do you learn?

4:3-9, 10-20 You might want to use your own words to express each section. And then you might want to act it as a play.

4:3 What is this story about?

4:4 What was happening?

4:5 What do you learn about this seed and soil?

4:6 What happened? Why did it happen?

4:7 What was happening? What was the result?

4:8 What happened to the other seed? What did that seed produce?

4:9 What do you think that Jesus is really saying?

4:10 What happened when Jesus was alone?

4:11 What did Jesus say that his disciples had received? What do other people hear?

4:12 You read about some people who see. And those people hear also. But what do you learn about those people? What will not happen for those people?

4:13 What did Jesus tell his disciples about whether they understood parables?

4:14 What did Jesus explain that this person in the parable was really doing?

4:15 What do you learn about the seed on the path?

4:16, 17 Some seed fell in the shallow soil on the rocks. What do you learn about that seed? Why do people like this lose their faith?

4:18, 19 What do you learn about the seed that fell among the weeds? God's message does not produce fruit (results) for these people. What prevents it?

4:20 Who are those people that are like good soil? How much fruit (results) do they produce?

4:21-22 You might use your own words to express this. And then you might want to act it as a play.

4:21 What do you learn here? Use your own words to describe it.

4:22 What do you learn about things that people hide? What do you learn about secrets?

4:23-25You might use your own words to express this. And then you might want to act it as a play.

4:23 What must you do if you have ears?

4:24 What should you do? What rule about reward does Jesus teach?

4:25 What example of the rule about reward does Jesus give?

4:26-29 You might use your own words to express this. And then you might want to act it as a play.

4:26 What was Jesus describing? What did he say that it was like?

4:27 What do you learn about this seed? What does that show you about God's kingdom?

4:28 What happens to the seed? What does that show you about God's kingdom?

4:29 What do you learn? Does that happen in a real field?

4:30-32, 33-34 You might want to use your own words to express each section. And then you might want to act it as a play.

4:30 Use your own words to express this. What do you learn about parables?

4:31 Use your own words to express this. What do you learn about God's kingdom?

4:32 Use your own words to express this. What do you learn about God's kingdom?

4:33 What did Jesus do? Why did Jesus do that?

4:34 What do you learn about how Jesus used parables? What do you learn about what parables mean?

4:35-41 You might use your own words to express this. And then you might want to act it as a play.

4:35 Who are the players? Or (in other words), who are the people that you read about? What else do you learn?

4:36 Use your own words to express this. What do you notice about Jesus?

4:37 What was happening? Imagine that you had been in that boat with Jesus. What might you have been thinking? And what might you have been doing?

4:38 Use your own words to express this. What do you think about that?

4:39 What did Jesus do? What happened? What do you think about that?

4:40 What two things did Jesus tell his disciples? What do you think that Jesus meant?

4:41 What happened to the disciples? What did they talk about? Why might the disciples have been surprised?