Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church Lay Academy
Not Dead but Sleeping
Matthew 9
Peter Combes – January 5, 2003                   
(The answers to the following may be multiple, or "none of the above")

1.       Read Mark 1:32 -- 2:12   Jesus' "own city" was :
                    Bethlehem
                    Nazareth
                    Bethsaida
                    Capernaum

2.      The paralytic was brought to Jesus :
                    on a horse
                    on a donkey
                    in a boat
                    through the roof

3.      Matthew appears to be also named as: 
                    Levi, son of Alphaeus
                    Simon, son of Jonah
                    James, son of Zebedee
                    John, son of Zebedee

4.       The tax authority was presumably:
                    the tetrarchy of Galilee
                    the military district of Caesarea
                    the theocracy of Jerusalem
                    the prefectship of Judaea

5.        "New wine is not put into old wineskins" appears to refer to:
                    Christianity and Judaism
                    Jesus' disciples and John's disciples
                    Judaism and Baalism
                    Christianity and paganism

6.         Read Like 9: 40-48.  Jesus felt :
                    infection from the woman
                    the power of the demons
                    the power leave him
                    fear

7.        When Jesus told the blind men not to tell anybody about being healed, they told:
                    nobody
                    the priests
                    their families
                    everybody

8.        The Pharisees claimed Jesus' power was :
                    divine
                    demonic
                    scientific
                    magical

9.        Jesus compares the crowds to:
                    lions
                    deer
                    sheep
                    jackals

10.        Jesus tells his disciples to pray for:
                    health
                    the presence of the Lord
                    power
                    laborers