Chapter 23
23:1-12, 13-36, 37-39 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.
Help some young people to make pictures that show these events.
23:1 Who was present?
23:2 Who use Moses’ authority? What do you know about Moses? Look also at 8:4; 17:3, 4; 19:7, 8; 22:24.
23:3 What should you do? What should you not do? What do you think about that?
23:4 Make up your own example with
23:5 What is the problem? How great is the problem? What do these people want other people to do?
23:6 What do ‘they love’ about parties? What else do they ‘love’? What do you think about that?
23:7 What makes some people happy? What do they ‘love’? What do you think about that?
23:8 What is the problem? What is the explanation? What do you think about all that?
23:9 What is the problem? What is the explanation? What do you think about that?
23:10 What is the problem? What is the explanation? Is your answer here similar to your earlier answer? Look also at 23:8.
23:11 What do you learn? What do you think about that?
23:12 What would not do any good to you if you did it? Why might you want to do that? What might produce a better result? Why is that?
23:13 What is Jesus warning ‘men who teach the law’ and the
23:14 What is Jesus warning about in this verse? Of what does Jesus accuse them? Whom do they rob? What might be the reason why that is especially bad? What do they do in order to seem good? What will be the result? What do you think about all that?
23:15 What do these people do? Why do they do that? What is the result? What do you think about all that?
23:16 How does Matthew describe these people? What is the problem? What might be the difference between ‘the
23:17 Of what problems does Jesus accuse them? What might they think? What is the problem with that?
23:18 What example does Jesus give? How does that show what the problem is?
23:19 In what way might these people be blind? What does Jesus explain? What do you think about that explanation?
23:20 Express this in your own words. What do you think about that?
23:21 Express this in your own words. What do you think about that?
23:22 Make a list of the facts. What does Jesus explain? What do you think about that?
23:23 Make a list of the facts. What is the problem? What will you do because you know that?
23:24 Who are these men? Express this
23:25 What is Jesus warning about? What is the problem? What does this
23:26 What is the problem? What does this
23:27 Who are these men? What is the problem? Express this
23:28 What is the problem? What will you do because you know this?
23:29 Who are these people? What is Jesus warning about? Express this
23:30 In those men’s opinion, if they had lived long ago, how would they have been different from other people then? What would they not have done?
23:31 What was the result? How did that result happen? What did the other people do earlier?
23:32 What was the instruction? What might those men have thought about that?
23:33 Express the
23:34 What did Jesus say that he is doing? Whom is he sending? What will his listeners do to them? What examples do you know in which those things have happened?
23:35 What have the listeners done? What will happen because of that? Express the details in your own words. What do you think about that?
23:36 What statement does Jesus make? What do you think about that?
23:37 What kind of message is this? What had been the problem? What had Jesus tried to do for those people? What is the meaning of the
23:38 What would happen? What would people have said about that?
23:39 What statement does Jesus make? Express this in your own words. What will change? What do you think about that?