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Matthew 9:9-13
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9As Jesus went on from there,
he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,”
he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10While Jesus was having
dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with
him and his disciples.
11When the Pharisees saw
this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors
and sinners?”
12On hearing this, Jesus
said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
13But go and learn what this
means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the
righteous, but sinners.”
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1)
According to
verse 9 what did Matthew do when Jesus told Matthew who
was sitting at the tax collector’s booth to follow him?
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Matthew
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Got up.
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And followed
Jesus.
2)
According to
verse 10 who were there while Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house?
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Many tax
collectors and sinners
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Came.
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And ate with
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Jesus.
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And his disciples.
3)
In accordance
with verse 10 how had Levi learned from Jesus in taking on the mission of
calling sinners when he started following Jesus?
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Levi invited many
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Tax collectors.
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And sinners.
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To dinner with
Jesus.
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So that
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They could get to
know Jesus.
4)
According to
verse 11 what did the Pharisees ask the disciples
when they saw Jesus eating with tax
collectors and sinners?
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They asked the disciples
why their teacher ate with
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Tax collectors.
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And sinners.
5)
Was Jesus
referring to the physical condition or the spiritual condition when he talked
about the healthy and the sick in verse 12?
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Jesus was
referring to the condition of being
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Spiritually healthy.
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And spiritually
sick.
6)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 13 whom had he come to call?
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Jesus had not
come to call
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The righteous.
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But sinners.
7)
Is a sinner
righteous or unrighteous since Jesus had not come to call the righteous, but
sinners?
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A sinner is
unrighteous.
8)
According to
Jesus, is a righteous person spiritually healthy or spiritually sick?
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A righteous
person is spiritually healthy.
9)
According to
Jesus, is a sinner spiritually healthy or spiritually sick?
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A sinner is
spiritually sick.
10)
Did Jesus
consider the Pharisees spiritually healthy or spiritually sick, given that they
saw only the sins of tax collectors but not their own?
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Jesus considered
the Pharisees spiritually sick.
11)
Did Jesus
consider the Pharisees to be sinners then?
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Yes.
12)
Whereupon whom
did Jesus come to call in the current situation, given that he did not come to call the righteous, but sinners?
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Jesus came to
call
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Not only tax
collectors.
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But also the
Pharisees.
13)
What is the
difference between the Pharisees on the one hand and the tax collectors on the
other in terms of seeing themselves as sinners?
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Tax collectors
saw themselves as sinners.
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The Pharisees did
not.
14)
How did tax
collectors who saw themselves as sinners respond to Jesus’ call?
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They followed
Jesus.
15)
How did the
Pharisees who did not see themselves as sinners respond to Jesus’ call?
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They refused to
follow Jesus.
16)
What did Jesus
mean when he said in verse 13: ‘I desire
mercy, not sacrifice.’?
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Jesus meant that
God desires
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Mercy for sinners.
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More than
sacrifice made to him.
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Matthew 9:9-13
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