QUESTIONS FOR MATTHEW TWENTY-THREE:
1. Did Jesus make his speech in private to the disciples only? (vs. 1)
2. Where did the scribes and Pharisees sit, and what did it mean to Jesus’ hearers? (vs. 2-3).
3. Did their rulers do what they expected of others? (vs. 4)
4. What was their purpose in their “doing,” and what did they do to get attention? (vs. 5)
5. What did they want people to call them? (vs. 7)
6. What were the different titles men used, and what did Jesus say about each one? (vs. 7-10).
7. What is the measure of a man before God? (vs. 11-12)
8. How many times is the phrase “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites used?
9. What was the Lord’s first complaint against these wicked men? (vs. 13)
10. What did they do to widows’ houses? (vs. 14) What does this mean?
11. What would they do to make a proselyte? (vs. 15)
12.` Was the tithing of mint, anise and cummin important? (vs. 23-24)
13. What was more important? (vs. 23)
14. What was it that dirtied the cup and the platter? (vs. 25-26)
15. What are “whited sepulchres,” and what are they full of? (vs. 27-28) What is Jesus saying?
16. What was the rulers’ boast about the prophets that were before? (vs. 29-30)
17. Who slew the prophets? (vs. 31-32).
18. Where did Jesus say they were headed? (vs. 33)
19. What would they do with the messengers Jesus would send? (vs 35)
20. What would come upon them? (vs. 35)
21. When? (vs. 36)
22. What was the disposition of Jesus toward wicked Jerusalem? (vs. 37)
23. How did they respond to his invitations? (vs. 37)
24. What would be the result? (vs. 38)
25. When would they see him again? (vs. 39)
Matt. 23:3; 9; 11-12; 23-24; 27; 37-38
