Chapter 8

8:1-4, 5-13, 14-17, 18-22 Discuss these events with some young people. Help them to express the events in their own words. Then, make the events into dramatic stories. Help young people to act them in their neighbourhood.

Help some people to make pictures that show these events.

8:1 What happened? Who was present?

8:2 What do you learn about this man? What might be the reason why he asked to be clean? What do you think about these events?

8:3 What happened? What do you think about what Jesus did? What changed?

8:4 Make a list of the things that the man should do. What do you think about those instructions?

8:5 What happened? What do you think about that?

8:6 What do you learn? What do you think about that?

8:7 What did Jesus tell the man? What do you think about that?

8:8 How did the Roman officer answer Jesus? What might be the reason why he said that?

8:9 What explanation does the officer give? What do you think about that?

8:10 What happened? Why? What do you think about that?

8:11 What might this mean? Who might those ‘many people’ be?

8:12 What might this mean? Who might those ‘many people’ be? What do you think about that?

8:13 What happened? What do you learn about someone that believes? What did Jesus himself do in what happened?

8:14 Who are the people? What was the situation? What do you think about that?

8:15 What happened to whom? What do you think about that?

8:16 Whom do we read about? What were they doing? What changed? How did that happen?

8:17 What had Isaiah said, that had just happened? What do you think about that?

8:18 What happened? What might be the reason for that?

8:19 Who came to Jesus? What did he offer to do? What do you think about that?

8:20 Jesus used picture language. What is the meaning of what he said?

8:21 What did this disciple offer? What do you think that the man meant? What do you think about that?

8:22 What did Jesus tell this man to do? What do you think that it meant? What do you think about that instruction?

8:23-27, 28-34; 9:1-8, 8-13, 14-17 Discuss with some young people about these events and this picture language. Talk about how it is changing your behaviour. Help the young people to teach their friends about it.

Help some children to make pictures that show these events.

8:23 Who was present? What happened?

8:24 Express this in your own words. What surprises you about these events?

8:25 Make a list of the things that happened. What do you think about that?

8:26  What was the problem? How did Jesus start to deal with the problem? What else did Jesus do? What happened?

8:27 Make a list of the results. What did they not understand? Why was that?

8:28 What was the situation? Who were the people? What was special about those people?

8:29 What did those people say? What do you think about that?

8:30 What was happening?

8:31 Who spoke? For what did they ask?

8:32 Make a list of the things that happened. What do you think about those events?

8:33 Make a list of the things that happened. What changed? What do you think about all that?

8:34 What happened? What was the result? What do you think about that result?