Matthew 23 - Tie-ins

Question 1

REf 20 3-part reference question. From the section titled “A Warning Against Hypocrisy.”
Where do Pharisees love the PLACE OF HONOR, where do they love the MOST IMPORTANT SEATS and where do they love to be GREETED WITH RESPECT?

Answer 1

M 23:6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
23:7 they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces

Question 2

REt 20 2-part reference question. 3-part answer. From the section titled “A Warning Against Hypocrisy.”
Don’t be called what and don’t call anyone on earth what?

Answer 2

M 23:8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’

23: 9 And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’
23: 10 Nor are you to be called instructors

Question 3

KKr 20 2-part question. 4-part answer. From the section titled “A Warning Against Hypocrisy.”
According to separate verses, you are not to be called what, why?

Answer 3

M 23:8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.
23:10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah.

Question 4

REN 20 3-part answer. From the section titled “Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees.”
The number one is used to describe whom?
OR
RER 20 3-part answer. From the section titled “Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees.”
You have one what?

Answer 4

M 23:8 Teacher

23: 9 Father
23: 10 Instructor

Question 5

KKn 20 3-part answer. From Matthew chapter 23.

Woe to whom?

Answer 5

M 23:13 Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
23:16 Woe to you, blind guides!

Question 6

KKN 30 Scripture text question. Give a complete answer. From Matthew chapter 23.
According to 6 separate verses, which accusations follow the exclamation, quote, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!”?

Answer 6

M 23:13 You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

23: 15 You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
23: 23 You give a tenth of your spices-mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
23: 25 You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
23: 27 You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.
23: 29 You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

Question 7

KKr 30 Scripture text question. 6-part answer. From Matthew chapter 23.
Give the references for the verses which contain the 11-word exclamation, quote, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!”
OR
RER 20 6-part answer. From Matthew chapter 23.
Give the references for verses that contain the exclamation, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!”

Answer 7

M 23:13, 23:15, 23:23, 23:25, 23:27, 23:29

Question 8

KKr 20 Give 2 complete answers. From Matthew chapter 23.

According to separate verses, what means nothing?

Answer 8

M 23:16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’
23:18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’

Question 9

RER 20 4-part answer. From Matthew chapter 23.

The word “blind” is used to describe whom?

Answer 9

M 23:16 blind guides

23: 17 blind fools
23: 19 blind men
23: 26 Blind Pharisee

Question 10

REf 20 Scripture text question. 2-part answer. From Matthew chapter 23.
According to the Pharisees what, quote, “means nothing”?

Answer 10

M 23:16 If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing;

23:18 If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing;

Question 11

RER 20 2-part reference question. 4-part answer.

According to blind guides, what oaths mean NOTHING and what oaths are BINDING?

Answer 11

M 23:16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by his oath.’
23:18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by his oath.’

Question 12

REN 20 3-part reference question. Give a complete answer. From Matthew chapter 23.
According to verses 16, 18 and 30, what do both the teachers of the law and the Pharisees say?

Answer 12

M 23:16 You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’

23: 18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’
23: 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Question 13

KKN 20 2-part reference question. Give a complete answer. From Matthew chapter 23.
What is MORE important, and what is MOST important?

Answer 13

M 23:23 Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices-mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
23:6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;

Question 14

REf 20 Essence question. 2-part answer. From Matthew chapter 23.
Give in essence the verses in which blood is mentioned.

Answer 14

M 23:30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
23:35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Question 15

KKN 20 2-part reference question. Give a complete answer. From Matthew chapter 23.
What does Jesus say “TRULY I tell you”, and what does he say “FOR I tell you”?

Answer 15

M 23:36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.
23:39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Question 16

JFp 20 Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees.”
Describe whitewashed tombs.

Answer 16

M 23:27 Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

Question 17

REf 20 Give a complete answer.
Describe Zechariah.
OR
SDp 20 Give a complete answer. From the section titled "Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees."
Describe Zechariah.

Answer 17

M 23:35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Question 18

REt 20 Give a complete answer from 3 consecutive verses. From Matthew chapter 23.
Describe Jerusalem.

Answer 18

M 23:37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 23:38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 23:39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’

Question 19

SDr 20 Scripture text question. Give 2 complete answers. From the section titled, “Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees.”
According to separate verses, who did Pharisees say were bound by, quote, “that oath”?

Answer 19

M 23:16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’
23:18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’

Question 20

JOw 20 3-part reference essence question. From Matthew chapter 23.
Give in essence the verse that contains the 3-word exclamation “You blind FOOLS!”, the verse that contains the 3-word exclamation “You blind MEN!”, and the verse that contains the 3-word exclamation “You blind GUIDES!”

Answer 20

M 23:17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

23: 19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
23: 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

Question 21

SDD 30 Statement and quotation question. 2-part answer. From Matthew chapter 23.
In 2 verses, Jesus referred to his listeners as “blind guides.” Quote these verses.

Answer 21

M 23:16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’
23:24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

Question 22

SDD 20 Scripture text question. 3-part answer. From the section titled “Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees.”
How does Matthew complete the phrase quote “full of”?

Answer 22

M 23:25 greed and self-indulgence

23: 27 the bones of the dead
23: 28 hypocrisy and wickedness