Isaiah 52:13-53:6 – New International Version (NIV)
13 See, my servant will act wisely;
he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.
14 Just as there were many who were appalled at him—
his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of
any human being
and his form marred beyond human likeness—
15 so he will sprinkle many nations,
and kings will shut their mouths because of
him.
For what they were not told, they will see,
and what they have not heard, they will understand.
53 1 Who has believed
our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire
him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on
him
the iniquity of us all.
Who “will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted” (verse
13)?
How did “many” react to the Lord’s servant (verse 14)?
What will kings understand (verse 15)?
In your opinion, what is the connection between the questions “who
has believed our message” and “to whom has the arm of the Lord been
revealed” (verse 1)?
What did the servant
not have (verse 2)?
How did “mankind”
react to the servant (verse 3)?
What did the servant
bear (verse 4)?
What did we consider
him (verse 4)?
Where was the “punishment
that brought us peace” (verse 5)?
How have “we all”
been like sheep (verse 6)?
What did the Lord
lay “on him” (verse 6)
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what does this
passage teach us about the way Jesus leads us?
Matthew 8:14-22 - New International
Version (NIV)
14 When
Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a
fever. 15 He touched her hand and the fever left her, and
she got up and began to wait on him.
16 When
evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove
out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. 17 This
was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
“He took
up our infirmities
and bore our diseases.”
18 When
Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of
the lake. 19 Then a teacher of the law came to him and
said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
20 Jesus
replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of
Man has no place to lay his head.”
21 Another
disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
22 But
Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Who was “in bed with a fever” (verse
14)?
What
happened when Jesus “touched her hand” (verse 15)?
How did Jesus drive out the spirits (verse 16)?
What did this fulfill (verse 17)?
When did Jesus give “orders to cross to the other side of the lake”
(verse 18)?
Who said “teacher, I will follow you wherever you go” (verse 19)?
What did “the Son of Man” not have (verse 20)?
What did “another disciple” say to Jesus (verse 21)?
How did Jesus answer (verse 22)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this
passage teach us about the way Jesus leads us?
In your opinion, how does reading Isaiah 52:13-53:6 add richness to the
stories of healing that Matthew says were done to “fulfill what was spoken
through the prophet Isaiah” in Matthew 8:14-22?
Acts 19:11-20 - New International Version (NIV)
11 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12 so
that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick,
and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
13 Some Jews who went around driving out evil
spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were
demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul
preaches, I command you to come out.” 14 Seven sons of
Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15 One day
the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who
are you?” 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped
on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out
of the house naked and bleeding.
17 When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in
Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord
Jesus was held in high honor. 18 Many of those who
believed now came and openly confessed what they had done. 19 A
number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them
publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to
fifty thousand drachmas. 20 In this way the word of the
Lord spread widely and grew in power.
What did God do “through Paul” (verse 11)?
What was done with the “handkerchiefs and aprons that
had touched” Paul (verse 12)?
Who were some Jews saying “in the name of the Jesus whom
Paul preaches, I command you to come out” over (verse 13)?
Who was Sceva, whose seven sons were doing this (verse 14)?
How did the evil spirit answer them (verse 15)?
What did the “man who had the evil spirit” do (verse
16)?
How did the “Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus” react
when they heard about the seven sons of Sceva (verse 17)?
What did “many of those who believed” now do (verse
18)?
In your opinion, why is it significant that some “brought
their scrolls together and burned them publicly” (verse 19)?
What happened to “the word of the Lord” (verse 20)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion,
what does this passage teach us about the way Jesus leads us?
In your opinion, what
does Isaiah 52:13-53:6 help us understand about why the seven sons of Sceva
using the name of Jesus was not effective in Acts 19:11-20?
In
your opinion, what is the difference between Paul in Acts 19:11-20 and the
teacher of the law and the other disciple in Matthew 8:14-22?
Colossians 2:6-15 - New International Version (NIV)
6 So then, just as you received Christ
Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and
built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and
overflowing with thankfulness.
8 See to
it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and
the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
9 For in Christ all the fullness of
the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have
been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and
authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a
circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the
flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, 12 having
been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with
him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the
dead.
13 When you were dead in your
sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made
you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having
canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and
condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And
having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of
them, triumphing over them by the cross.
How
should those who have “received Christ Jesus as Lord” continue (verse 6)?
What should
those who have “received Crist Jesus as Lord” overflow with (verse 7)?
What does “hollow and deceptive
philosophy” depend on (verse 8)?
Where does “all
the fullness of the Deity” live “in bodily form” (verse 9)?
How are Christians “brought
to fullness” (verse 10)?
What is cut off when
we are “circumcised by Christ” (verse 11)?
How are Christians
raised after being buried with Christ “in baptism” (verse 12)?
What were we (Christians)
before “God made you alive with Christ” (verse 13)?
What has God done
with the “charge of our legal indebtedness” that He cancelled (verse 14)?
How did Christ triumph
over the “powers and authorities” (verse 15)?
In your opinion,
what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion,
what does this passage teach us about the way Jesus leads us?
In your opinion, how
do you explain the fact that Isaiah 52:13-53:6 says that the Lord’s servant
will be “despised and rejected by mankind” yet Colossians 2:6-15 says in Christ “all the fullness
of the Deity lives in bodily form”?
In your opinion, how does the healing of the sick and the
driving out of demons by Jesus in Matthew 8:14-22 prepare us to accept God
making us “alive with Christ” in Colossians 2:6-15?
In your opinion, how
does Acts 19:11-20 make clear about what Colossians 2:6-15 is warning us of
when it says “See to it that no one takes you
captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy”?
In your opinion, what do these Scriptures from Isaiah, Matthew,
Acts, and Colossians teach us about what the Lord laid on Jesus for us?
In your
opinion, how can we “follow” Jesus’s lead today?
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