Chapter 13

13:1-8, 10-17, 18-23, 24-30, 31-33, 34-35, 36-43, 44-46, 47-50, 51-52 Discuss with some young people what Jesus taught here. Help them to develop dramatic stories about it. Help them to act the stories for their friends and neighbours.

Help some young people to make pictures that show these events.

13:1 What happened? Where did it happen? Who was present?

13:2 What changed? What did Jesus do because of that change? What did the people do?

13:3 What did Jesus do? What might be the reason why he did that? What is this story about?

13:4 What happened? What were the results? What do you think about that?

13:5 What happened? What were the results? Why was that?

13:6 What happened? Why was that?

13:7 What happened? What were the results? Why was that?

13:8 What happened? What were the results? What might be the reason why that happened?

13:9 Who should do what? Why is that?

13:10 Who was present? What was the question? What might be the reason why they asked that question?

13:11 What benefits do the disciples have? What do they know? How are they different from other people?

13:12 What do you learn? What do you think about that?

13:13 What does Jesus explain? What is the problem? What do you think about that?

13:14 What do these people show? What had Isaiah said about these people?

13:15 What is the serious inner problem? Otherwise, what might have happened? What would be the best part of that?

13:16 What is different about the disciples? Why would that be?

13:17 What did Jesus tell the disciples about? How were the disciples different from these other people?

13:18 What is the instruction?

13:19 Jesus refers here to the story that is in picture language. Make a list of the facts in the story. What is ‘like’ this story about the seed? What is the problem with the hard path?

13:20 What happens to some ‘seeds’? What are ‘seeds’ in ‘shallow earth on rocks’ like? What would you think if this happens to a close friend?

13:21 What may become a problem? What are these people like? What have they not done? What happens to them? What do they do about all that?

13:22 What is the problem with this ‘earth’? What is that ‘earth’ like? What do people like that do? What is the problem with them?

13:23 What happened to these ‘seeds’? How much ‘fruit’ did seeds in this soil produce?

13:24 What is this verse about? What might the listener have to do in order to understand its meaning?

13:25 What happened? What might be the reason why the enemy acted in that way?

13:26 What happened? What do you think about that?

13:27 Who came? Why did they come? What was their message?

13:28 What was the reply? What did the servants want to know?

13:29 What was the answer? What was the explanation?

13:30 Make a list of the activities that the owner suggested. Who should do what? What would happen to the weeds? What would happen to the wheat?

13:31 What is this verse about? What might the listener have to do in order to understand its meaning?

13:32 How would you describe this seed and plant? What are the results of its growth?

13:33 What is this verse about? What might the listener have to do in order to understand its meaning? What did the woman do? What was the result?

13:34 What do you learn about the way in which Jesus taught? To whom did he speak in that way?

13:35 What do you learn about the scriptures? What do you learn about what Jesus did? What do you think about that?

13:36 What happened? What might be the reason why that happened? What do you think about that?

13:37 What do you learn? What do you think about that?

13:38 What do the ‘field’, the ‘good seed’ and the ‘weeds’ mean? What do you think about that?

13:39 Who or what do the ‘enemy’, the ‘harvest’ and the ‘workers’ mean? What do you think about that?

13:40 What do the ‘harvest workers’ have to do? What is that like? What do you think about that?

13:41 Who will act? What will they not allow? How will they do that?

13:42 What will happen? What do you think about that?

13:43 What will happen to ‘the people who belong to God’? What must they do themselves to help achieve that?

13:44 Express this in your own words. What do you learn about this valuable thing? What will you do with this valuable thing?

13:45 What is this story about? What did the merchant do?

13:46 What was the result when the merchant had searched? What did he do when he found the pearl? What might be the reason why he did that?

13:47 What is this story about? What did the men do?

13:48 Make a list of the things that happened. What might be the reason why the men separated the fish into different sorts? What do you think about all that?

13:49 What is the explanation? What will you do because you know about that?

13:50 What will God’s messengers do? What will happen to ‘the wicked people’? What will you do because you know that?

13:51 What things might the disciples have understood? Look also at 13:36-50.

13:52 Make a list of the facts. What might this picture language mean?

13:53-58; 14:1-12, 13-21, 22-33, 34-36; 15:1-9, 10-20, 21-28, 29-31, 32-39; 16:1-4, 5-12, 13-20, 21-23, 24-28; 17:1-13,14-23, 24-27 Discuss these events with some young people. Help them to develop dramatic stories about the events. Help them to act the stories for their friends and neighbours.

Help some young people in your neighbourhood to make pictures that show these events.

13:53 What had Jesus done before this? What did he do then? What do you think about that?

13:54 Where did Jesus come? What did Jesus do? What was the result? Make a list of the questions that they asked. What do you think about all that?

13:55, 56 What do you learn about Jesus’ family? What question did some people ask? What might you say about that question?

13:57 Who was not happy about Jesus? Look also at 13:54. Express Jesus’ answer in your own words. What examples of this idea can you think of?

13:58 What happened? Why was that?