Basic Knowledge
The name of a skin disease that was common in Jesus' day and from which he healed a man in Matthew 8:1.
What is Leprosy?
This well known musical composition that we often hear during the Christmas season, and which includes a song with the phrase "All we like sheep" references the same passage that Jesus quotes from in these chapters.
What is "Handel's Messiah"?
Jesus healed two demon possessed men in this region, and an entire herd of pigs met an untimely end.
What is "the Gadarenes"
Jesus response to a man who told him "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."
What was "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
What is a tax collector?
The vocation of the man whose faith Jesus praised by saying "Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith."
What is "Centurion"?
What is "He took our illnesses and bore our diseases."
The Roman leader whose daughter Jesus healed lived in this city.
What is Capernaum?
Jesus words of praise for a man who told him "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof..."
"Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith."
The vocation of the man whose faith Jesus praised by saying "Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith."
What is "Centurion"?
What is "a paralytic"?
Jesus shared this quote from the prophet Hosea, immediately following it by stating "For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
What is "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice."
The name of a large lake that Jesus and his disciples crossed by boat more than once in these two chapters.
What is "the sea of Gallilee"?
A missing word in Jesus' rebuke to the flute players and crowd at a young girl's house: "Go away, for the girl is not dead, but ____."
What is "sleeping"?
Along with studying and interpreting the scripture, these people would meticulously copy and recopy the Bible, even carefully counting letters and spaces to ensure it was correct.
Who were "the scribes"?
When the crowd saw this happen, they said "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel."
What is a mute man speaking.
This may not have been particularly tall, but it was what Jesus "came down" from at the beginning of Matthew 8.
What is "a mountain"?
Some missing words from Jesus question to the scribes "For which is easier, to say, ‘___ __ __ ___’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?"
What are "Your sins are forgiven"?
This person rose and began to serve Jesus and his disciples immediately after Jesus healed her from a fever.
Jesus words to his disciples in Matthew 9 when he saw the crowds who were "harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd."
What is "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
While none of Jesus disciples was specifically identified as one of these religious conservatives, the apostle Paul self-identified as one of them them in Philippians 3:5: "circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, _?
What is "a Pharisee"?