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Questions Jesus Asked and Answered
Jesus asked 307 questions
Jesus was asked 108 questions
Jesus answered 8, 10 based on interpretation.
So for the math wizards, Jesus is 40 times more likely to ask a question than answer, and when He answers He is more likely to ask an indirect question 20 times to one.
His ability to ask indirect questions, had a profound effect on those who tried to “trap” jesus with a question.
the Sadducees tried to trap Jesus with a resurrection question.
They didn’t believe in the resurrection.
What is the final question they asked after this implausible scenario?
What is the answer in verse 24?
How about our follow up question?
What will heaven be like?
Should we pay taxes?
Yes and they perceive He supports the Romans.
No and the opposite is true.
But He answers with a question.
What is the question?
What question does Pilate ask Jesus?
Jesus responds how?
In the other three gospels, Jesus avoids the question altogether by being silent.
from last week.
A couple questions.
Here is one of the tough indirect questions: Aren’t there 12 hours in a day?
is where we find this question.
Questions He Directly Answered
, Peter asks how many times He is to forgive his brother.
A direct answer is given.
On the issue of divorce Jesus answers the Pharisees,
On the issue of eternal life, Matthew 19:16-22, keep the commandments.
, the scribes ask, Which commandment is most important of all?
The most difficult of answers came right after the transfiguration.
Lets read:
Mark 17:14-21 and see the tough answer.
This is as direct an answer as Jesus can give (right after they saw Moses and Elijah).
Does Jesu seem impatient?
Should He be?
Should he be with me?
, Where would you like to eat the passover meal?
The most detailed answer He gave.
The answer He didn’t want to give:
John 13:21-30
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Peter doesn’t take the hint, or does he?
Last, many times people asked or assumed or made a statement about who He was and what He did.
Often HE would say, go, tell no one.
His time had not yet come.
Mark 15:1-5
Again as direct as it comes.
Why answer now?
Why Pilate?
Tired of the pomp and circumstance, tired of the goading and posturing of the temple officials?
I like direct answers.
I don’t have the ability to give indirect answers.
I cant play poker, because i just answer the question asked.
Someone i know can do a very good job of being indirect.
Did we get our taxes complete?
I think so...
Did we get a return?
Probably...
How much?
Less than last year...
Jesus doesn’t answer many question directly as we see here.
It is by design.
He is a teacher, not an answer man.
Parables teach.
Indirect questions cause us to rephrase, think through the issue or get to the heart of the matter truly at hand.
In some parables we see something different each time based on our circumstances.
They are eye opening, mind blowing, trees in the midst of the forest.
A teacher who aims to transform our lives causes us to think, ponder, wonder, illustrate, dream, test, try and even fail at times all to get us to a more mature character.
In the Nazarene church we call that the sanctified life.
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