Mark 14:26-52 Questions by Stephen Ricker
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Jesus Prays at Gethsemane
Questions for Study 29

Mark 14:26-52
Memory Verse: 36

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I. Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial (26-31)

1. What is the time and place (26)? Who is the shepherd and who are the sheep (27)? According to Jesus, how will this word from Zechariah be fulfilled (Zech. 13:7)? What was Jesus' point in telling the disciples that they would fall in the time of crises? (28)

2. How did Peter compare himself to the others (29)? Why wouldn't he listen to Jesus (30,31)? What did Jesus know about Peter that Peter did not know about himself? What was Jesus trying to teach him?

II. At Gethsemane (32-42)

3. When they arrived in Gethsemane, who did Jesus take with him and what did he tell them (32-34)? Why? What did Jesus do (35a)? Why was he so distressed and troubled?

4. What was Jesus' prayer topic (35b)? What did he mean by the hour? By the cup? As a man, what did Jesus want? What decision did Jesus make before God in prayer (36)? What can we learn from Jesus here?

5. What were the three disciples doing while Jesus prayed (37)? Why did Jesus urge them to stay awake and pray (38)?

6. How many times did Jesus come to awaken them (39-41)? Why do you think they were so sleepy? What happened to end this time of prayer (42)? How did Jesus describe this moment of crisis? How did he meet it?

III. Jesus Arrested (43-52)

7. Who was Judas (43a)? Why did he come and who was with him (43b-46)? How would his action compound the tragedy to Jesus?

8. What effort did the disciples make to defend Jesus (47)? What does this reveal about them? How did Jesus see the mob (48,49)? How did he rebuke them and why? Why did he neither defend himself nor encourage the disciples' defensive action?

9. How were Jesus' earlier words of warning and the scripture prophecies fulfilled (27,50)? Why do you think the author told about the young man who ran away naked (51,52)? Why were Jesus' attitude and actions different in the time of crises from that of the disciples?