Chapter 3

3:1 What happened? When did it happen? Where did it happen?

3:2 About what did John teach? What do you learn about God?

3:3 What had Isaiah said that John would do? What do you think about that?

3:4 What do you learn about John’s clothes? What do you learn about what John ate?

3:5 Where did people come from, to see John?

3:6 What did the people do? What did John do when they did that?

3:7 Who came to where John was baptising people? What did he tell them? (Use your own words to say it.) What might be the reason why he said those things?

3:8 What should those people do? What do you think about that?

3:9 Why should people not decide their own value from who their ancestor is? What might be the reason why John said this about Abraham? What do you learn about God?

3:10 This is picture language. What do you think that this verse means? What would this ‘good fruit’ be?

3:11 What do you learn about how John baptised? Who will baptise after him? Whom will he baptise? How will he baptise them?

3:12 John used picture language here. What is the story? Who is like that farmer? What does this story really describe?

3:13 What did Jesus do? What did he want John to do? Where did these things happen?

3:14 What happened? Why did John try to refuse what Jesus wanted? What do you think about that?

3:15 What happened? What would ‘carry out God’s good plan’? What do you think about all that?

3:16 What did John do? What did Jesus do? What else happened? What do you think about all that?

3:17 What happened? What do you think about that?