Bible Questions # 973-984
By Joyce Webb
Matthew Chp. 2
973. After the wise men found the child Jesus, did they go back to King Herod to tell him where Jesus was? ________ Why? _______________________________
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Matthew 2:12
974. Joseph was warned in a dream to do what? ____________________________
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Matthew 2:13
975. Why did Joseph need to take his family and leave? ____________________
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976. Joseph was a carpenter. He was not a rich man. God has told him to go on a very long trip to a foreign country and stay for a long time. How was he going to afford to do that? Did God provide for them? What do you know about the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh? ___________________________________________________
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(Frankincense and myrrh were expensive spice perfumes worth much, much money. Joseph would be able to sell little parts of it at a time to have money.)
977. Vs, 16-18 Herod is angry when the wise men do not return to him. What does Herod to try to make sure the child Jesus did not live? ________________________
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978. Vs. 19-23 How does Joseph know when it is safe to go home? _____________
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979. Joseph is still worried because the new king is not any better than the last one. So Joseph decides to go live in the town of _____________________________.
(This new king did not reign over all of Israel just over Judea. So Joseph did not want to go into the area of Judea, so he went further north to the area of Galilee.)
980. John the Baptist, begins preaching in the area of Judea. John is Jesus’ cousin.
The book of Luke tells us about this: read chp. 1 and 2 What does John tell the people?
Matthew 3:2,3 __________________________________________________________
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981. John the Baptist was a different sort of person. What did he wear? _____________
____________________ What did he eat? ____________________________________
982. Vs. 5 People came from the city of ___________________________, from the area of __________________________, and from all around the area of the river ____________________________ They came to listen to John preach. He baptized them in the river Jordon.
983. Vs. 14, 15 John told them that a man was coming soon that was a much better man than John. John said that he was not worthy to take off the man’s shoes. (A servant might take off a man’s shoes for him. John said that he was not good enough to even take off this man’s shoes.) Who was this man who was coming? __________________
984. Vs. 13-17 Jesus came to the river to be baptized by John. Jesus did not need to “repent of sin” . He did not need to be baptized. He did it as an “example” for those who would follow him. After Jesus was baptized and as he was coming up out of the water——what happened? The ____________________________were opened and
The ______________________of _______________________ came down like a
___________________________ and ______________________________ came upon him. And a __________________________ spoke from heaven saying
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