JESUS AS TEACHER

RABBI

• Title used to describe Jesus

• Word means ‘teacher’ in Hebrew

• Many came from all over to learn from him

• Given respect from the start

STYLES

• Proverbs

• Actions/his own example

• Similes/Metaphors

• Lectures/Sermons

• Parables

• Miracles

Lectures/Sermons

• Sermon on the Mount (MT 5-7)• MT 5

– Beatitudes– Similes of Salt and Light

• Not really similes• Salt

– Gives flavor– Used to preserve– Very valuable

• Light– Helps us see– Gives us security

– Teachings---MT 5• On Law• On Anger• On Retailiation

– Teachings---MT 6• On Alms• On Prayer• On Fasting

– Teachings---MT 7• Judging others• Golden Rule (Proverb)

PARABLES

• Short stories used to teach a lesson– Used images familiar to the people

• Money

• Agriculture

• Average people

– Did not really happen

PARABLES

• Sower and the Seed– LK 8:4-8

– Jesus explains in LK 8:11-15– Followed by Weeds Among the Wheat and

explanation

• Good Samaritan– LK 10:29-37

– Answer to a question• Greatest Commandment• Love God with your whole heart, being, strength,

and mind– Shema– DT 6

• Love neighbor as your self (QUESTION)

• Samaritan is man who helps

• Lost Son– LK 15:11-32

• Forgiveness

• Father is God

• Both sons represent us

MIRACLES

• Marvelous events which cannot be explained by science or reason

• Three types– Nature

• Nature• Creation

– Healing• Illness• Death

– Exorcism• Sin• Evil

Nature Miracles

• Water into Wine (JN 2:1-11)

• Walking on Water (JN 6:16-21)

• Feeding of the 5000 (MT 14:13-21)

HEALING MIRACLES

• Man born blind (JN 9:1-41)

• Jairus’s daughter and the woman with the hemorrhage (MK 8:40-56)

• Raising of Lazarus (JN 11:1-53)

EXORCISM

• Not the same as in movies

• Casting out of demons

• MK 1:9-15

• MK 5:1-20