Questions

The scribes’ evil practices (Mk 12:38-40)

(Questions for meditation)

  1. What sort of people are the scribes? What is their chief task?

  2. What evil practices did they have that was listed by Jesus? What did each of those evil practices reflect regarding their minds and characters?

  3. Why did Jesus say that the scribes “shall receive greater damnation”?

  4. What are the advantages of increasing Bible knowledge?

  5. Paul at the beginning thanks God for the Corinthians because they are enriched “in all utterance, and in all knowledge” (口才、知識都全備). (I Cor 1:5) What does he speak against them later in this aspect? (I Cor 3:3,18; 4:7)

  6. What encouragement does Paul give Timothy about his teaching service? What does Paul alert him aside from teaching? (I Tim 1:6-8, 4:8-16; II Tim 2:2)

  7. Will you have greater demand on the behavior of the Sunday school teachers? Why?