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Assignment: Who Do You Say Jesus Is?
Address each question below with complete sentences and clear, specific explanations.
Question I. Select one teaching of Jesus from the following choices: Matthew 5:21-24; Matthew 5:43-48; Matthew 6:19-24; Matthew 7:15-23; Luke 15:1-32; John 13:1-17 and 34-35; or John 15:1-11. Answer the following questions with in-text citations from a commentary in the topic Resources.
Question 1. What was Jesus's point in the teaching?
Question 2. How might someone from an atheist or pantheistic worldview see the concepts of this passage differently?
Question 3. What does this teaching reveal about Jesus?
Question II. Select one of the following passages in which Jesus makes statements about his nature and purpose: Matthew 9:1-8; Matthew 9:9-13; Luke 7:18-23; John 5:16-18; John 10:25-38; John 14:5-11. Answer the following with in-text citations from a commentary in the topic Resources.
Question 1. What is Jesus saying about his nature and the purpose of his ministry? What is the significance of this claim?
Question III. How would you personally answer Jesus'squestion, "But who do you say that I am?"(Mark 8:29). Describe your own beliefs about Jesus.