He asked his father for his half of the inheritance, squandered it on fast and reckless living, then came back home in shame.
What do we call this parable?
THE PRODIGAL SON
Jesus taught to a large crowd of people on a hillside along the Sea of Galilee.
How many people were in the crowd?
5,000
On occassion Jesus was invited to have dinner with religious leaders in towns he visited.
Those leaders are called ___________.
PHARISEES
During one of Jesus's journeys, he came to a village where he was invited to the home of two sisters.
What are their names?
MARTHA and MARY
While on his final journey to Jerusalem, Jesus and his followers PASS THROUGH this city?
JERICHO
When his father saw his youngest son returning, he ran out to the field to greet him, placed sandals and a robe on him, and decided to host a party where they killed and served the ______ _______.
FATTED CALF
Because it was late in the day, the crowd grew ________ and the disciples asked Jesus to send them away so they could buy food. But Jesus told them to give them something to ______.
HUNGRY
EAT
A woman in that town who lived a __________ life learned Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of _________.
SINFUL
PERFUME
Which sister was was distracted by all the preparations she thought needed to made to host Jesus?
MARTHA
Before he enters Jericho, Jesus heals a man who was ___________.
BLIND
Where was the oldest son when we heard the party that was happening for his younger brother?
IN THE FIELD
Jesus took ______ loaves of bread and _____ fish and performed the miracle of feeding the 5,000.
FIVE LOAVES
TWO FISH
At the Pharisee's house, the woman:
- stood behind Jesus at his feet ______
- wet his feet with her _______
- wiped them with her _________
- kissed them and poured _____on them
WEEPING
TEARS
HAIR
PERFUME
Martha grew frustrated at the situation and went to Jesus and said him,
“Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself?
"____ ____ ______ ______ _____!"
TELL HER TO HELP ME
As Jesus enters Jericho, he encounters a man named ______________.
Where was this man located?
ZACCHAEUS
TREE
When the older son found out what was happening, he became _______ and ________ to go in to the party.
ANGRY
REFUSED
How many basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish did the disciples collect?
TWELVE
When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus to dinner saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is
She is a ____________
SINNER
Jesus told Martha that she are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one.
Mary sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.
Who chose better - Martha or Mary?
MARY
What are TWO things we know about Zacchaeus?
His job was __________________
The reason he was in a tree was ____________
CHIEF TAX COLLECTOR
HE WAS SHORT
The father told his oldest son "you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. This brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was ______ and now is _________.”
LOST
FOUND
Jesus declares, “I am the ______of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. Whoever eats this _____ will live forever. This ______is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
BREAD
Jesus told a parable about two people owed money to moneylender. One owed five hundred denarii, the other fifty. He forgave the debts of both.
Which of them will love him more?
THE ONE WHO HAD A BIGGER DEBT FORGIVEN
Later in the Bible we learn Martha and Mary have a brother that Jesus knew and loved.
What is his name?
LAZARUS
After Zacchaeus welcomed Jesus into his home and promised to give half his possessions to the poor, Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.
For the Son of Man came to _________ and to _________ the lost"
to SEEK and to SAVE the lost.”