Chapter 15

15:1 Who came to Jesus? Where did they come from? What might be the reason why they came?

15:2 What were the questions? What might be the reason why they asked those questions?

15:3 How did Jesus reply to them? What did Jesus say that they had not done? What did he say that they had done? What do you think about that?

15:4 What information did Jesus use to prove his answer to their questions? Look also at 15:2. What should people do? What do you think about all that?

15:5 What had happened? How did those men avoid God’s commands? If you were a parent, what might you think about that?

15:6 What might those men think? What might they argue? What was the result? What do you think about all that?

15:7 What did Jesus say that those men had done? What did Isaiah do?

15:8 What do ‘these people’ say? What do ‘these people’ do? What is the problem?

15:9 What do ‘they’ not do? What do ‘they’ do instead? What do you think about that?

15:10 What did Jesus do? What did he tell the people to do? What might be the reason why he said that?

15:11 Can how a person eats make that person wrong? Can how a person speaks make that person wrong?

15:12 What happened? What did the disciples report? What do you think about all that?

15:13 What do you learn about plants? To what ‘plants’ might Jesus be referring? What will God do with them?

15:14 What was Jesus’ advice about the Pharisees? What do you think about the picture language that Jesus uses here? What will you do because you know that?

15:15 Whom do we read about in this verse? What is the meaning of the request?

15:16 What was Jesus’ reaction? What do you think about that?

15:17 Make a list of the things that Jesus told to Peter. What did he say about Peter? What happens to things that go into the mouth?

15:18 What do you learn? Some things go into the mouth and some things go out from the mouth. What is the difference between those things? Look also at 15:17.

15:19 Where do evil thoughts come from? What results do they cause? What do you think about all that?

15:20 What makes a person wrong? Look also at 15:19. What do you learn about how people eat? What do you think about all that?

15:21 What did Jesus do? What might be the reason why he did that?

15:22 Describe the lady. What did she do? What did she say? What might be the reason why she said that?

15:23 What did Jesus do? What happened next? What do you think about the disciples’ actions?

15:24 How did Jesus answer the disciples? What were those people like?

15:25 What happened? What might be the reason why the woman did that?

15:26 How did Jesus reply? What might the woman have understood from that?

15:27 How did the woman reply? What do you think about her answer?

15:28 How did Jesus reply? What might be the reason why he answered in that way? What happened to the daughter?

15:29 Make a list of the things that Jesus did. Where was he?

15:30 What happened? What problems did the people have? What did Jesus do? What might be the reason why he did that?

15:31 What reaction did the people have? What did they see? Whom did they thank? What might be the reason why they did that?

15:32 What did Jesus do? What did he tell his disciples? What shows to you that he cared about these people?

15:33 What was a problem for the disciples? Where did they look for a solution? How did they explain how difficult their situation was?

15:34 What is the question? What is the answer? What do you think about that?

15:35 What did Jesus do?

15:36 Make a list of the things that Jesus did. Why do you think that he did those things?

15:37 What was the result? First, there were seven loaves and a few fish, and afterwards there were seven baskets full of pieces. What is the difference between those two situations? Look also at 15:36.

15:38 Who ate on that day? What do you think about that?

15:39 What did Jesus do? Where did he go?