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JESUS AS TEACHER
RABBI
• Title used to describe Jesus
• Word means ‘teacher’ in Hebrew
• Many came from all over to learn from him
• Given respect from the start
STYLES
• Proverbs
• Actions/his own example
• Similes/Metaphors
• Lectures/Sermons
• Parables
• Miracles
Lectures/Sermons
• Sermon on the Mount (MT 5-7)• MT 5
– Beatitudes– Similes of Salt and Light
• Not really similes• Salt
– Gives flavor– Used to preserve– Very valuable
• Light– Helps us see– Gives us security
– Teachings---MT 5• On Law• On Anger• On Retailiation
– Teachings---MT 6• On Alms• On Prayer• On Fasting
– Teachings---MT 7• Judging others• Golden Rule (Proverb)
PARABLES
• Short stories used to teach a lesson– Used images familiar to the people
• Money
• Agriculture
• Average people
– Did not really happen
PARABLES
• Sower and the Seed– LK 8:4-8
– Jesus explains in LK 8:11-15– Followed by Weeds Among the Wheat and
explanation
• Good Samaritan– LK 10:29-37
– Answer to a question• Greatest Commandment• Love God with your whole heart, being, strength,
and mind– Shema– DT 6
• Love neighbor as your self (QUESTION)
• Samaritan is man who helps
• Lost Son– LK 15:11-32
• Forgiveness
• Father is God
• Both sons represent us
MIRACLES
• Marvelous events which cannot be explained by science or reason
• Three types– Nature
• Nature• Creation
– Healing• Illness• Death
– Exorcism• Sin• Evil
Nature Miracles
• Water into Wine (JN 2:1-11)
• Walking on Water (JN 6:16-21)
• Feeding of the 5000 (MT 14:13-21)
HEALING MIRACLES
• Man born blind (JN 9:1-41)
• Jairus’s daughter and the woman with the hemorrhage (MK 8:40-56)
• Raising of Lazarus (JN 11:1-53)
EXORCISM
• Not the same as in movies
• Casting out of demons
• MK 1:9-15
• MK 5:1-20