IBI-LC302 | Life of Christ Name: JOCELYN CURILAN

Date: MAY 27, 2021

Lesson 7: Moving Towards Calvary, Holy Week
EXAMINATION QUESTIONS:
1. What were the names of Lazarus’ sisters? Martha and Mary.
2. This family lived in Bethany, which is in Judea.
3. Refer to the details concerning the resurrection of Lazarus in John 11:1-45 and answer the following six
questions:
a. Why did Jesus delay in responding to the report that Lazarus was sick?
i. There was a threat to His life in Judea but He know the right time to go there has not yet
come.
ii. He knows the sickness will not end in death.
iii. He delayed until Lazarus died so that He might raise him from the dead.
b. How did the Lord respond to the sorrow of Lazarus’ relatives and friends? Jesus also wept for
Lazarus.
c. What does this response tell us about Jesus’s humanity and relationship to those whom He loves?
Jesus truly knows and feels our loves and sorrows as humans. He is both God AND human when
He lived on earth. Jesus truly loved and had dear and personal relationship with the people
around Him just like all humans.
d. What does Jesus’ treatment of Martha’s complaining tell us about Jesus’ relationship to one’s
doubting spirit? Jesus is gentle and compassionate. Jesus still explained and assured Martha to
increase her faith and understanding.
e. When Lazarus came forth, what were the responses of the different groups of people? Many of the
Jews who witnessed it came to believe Jesus. The others went to the Pharisees and told them what
Jesus had done that this intensified the plot to destroy Jesus at the soonest chance they get.
f. Jesus had raised others from the dead, why was the raising of Lazarus of special importance.
i. Raising Lazarus had special importance that it came near to the time of His own
resurrection and so pointed forward to it.
ii. That in turn stiffened the opposition to Him among the rulers of the Jews hastening their
plans to destroy Jesus which is towards Jesus’ necessary death on the cross to be
accomplished.
4. Just before Holy Week Jesus went through Jericho. He did something for two men – one was blind and
the other so short of stature that he climbed a tree to see Jesus. Who were these two men? Blind
Bartimaeus and Zacchaeus the short man.
5. What attitude of Jesus was demonstrated by the healing of the blind man and being the guest of the man
who climbed the tree? Jesus was a friend to the common folk and would give Himself sacrificially to
minister to their needs. He keeps diligently to His call – to seeking and saving the lost – like the good
shepherd looking for the lost individual sheep, He will single out a person showing the preciousness of
even just one soul.
6. Holy Week came during a religious season. What season was it? The Passover.
7. The triumphal entry was not planned by the friends of Jesus. Whose plan was it? Jesus knew it and
planned it.
8. The Old Testament prophecy about the triumphal entry of Jesus was written by: Zechariah in Zechariah
9:9 Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you.
He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey— riding on a donkey’s colt.

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9. What was the significance of Jesus’ approach to Jerusalem by riding on a donkey? It shows that He is
lowly. Not like riding a horse in a symbol of warlike conquest – but an ass, the symbol of peaceful
embassage. He did not come to overthrow and set up a kingdom but to bring salvation.
10. What was Jesus’ attitude toward Jerusalem as He rode into the city and they were proclaiming Him king?
His demeanor was one of sadness. He knew that in a few years it will be destroyed because it refused to
truly receive Him as its rightful Lord and King and the peace and salvation He could bring.
11. During the controversial Holy Week, what prevented the Jewish leaders from publicly arresting Jesus?
The city was filled with people largely sympathetic to Jesus.
12. At what season did Jesus cleanse the Temple driving out the moneychangers for the second time?
Passover.
13. Apart from the monetary aspect of the problem, in what ways were the people and God being robbed by
the corrupt practices of the moneychangers? They were robbed and deprived of the proper use of the
temple. The temple should be dedicated to God and to His worship. The people were also robbed of a
house of prayer open for all nationalities.
14. How did the religious leaders attempt to lure Jesus into a snare through which He would lose His
popularity? They questioned by whose authority was Jesus doing all the things He did. They asked other
questions to ensnare Him to make statements they can use against Him.
15. To whom was Jesus referring in the parable of the wicked husbandman? The rulers and religious leaders,
Pharisees.
16. What does the teaching “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are
God’s” mean? It gives guidance to the separation between church and state. All people have a
responsibility to the government as citizens but the government concerns cannot interfere with the
obligations of God’s people to their heavenly Sovereign as well.
17. When Jesus was asked what the first and basic commandment of life was, what was His reply? The Lord
replied, “'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'. This is
the first and greatest commandment.”
18. On what major doctrine were the Sadducees in error? The Resurrection of the dead.
19. What question of Jesus stumped the Pharisees and pointed towards the virgin birth as a requirement for
the Messiah’s birth? He asked them, “How can it be said that the Christ is the Son of David?” if David
himself calls the Messiah his Lord. It points to the fact of the incarnation, that God will be Man but only
through the conception of the Holy Spirit.
20. Give a brief statement on what this study on Holy Week has meant to you. The study gave me an added
perspective on the humility and obedience of Jesus to the will of the Father. It also made the Bible
accounts more connected for me by showing how all the events were entwined and “planned” as the will of
God unfolds. I can only imagine how confused the disciples of Christ were at that time and how they must
have marveled at all of it when Jesus did resurrect and everything connected with them too. It must have
been the most suspenseful period in all of history, I can imagine the heavens holding its breath at what
was going to unfold. There is the dreadfulness of death at the cross but the glorious triumph leading to the
resurrection of the Savior of the world. How grand and yet so full of mercy and grace is God’s plan for the
salvation of man through Christ. And how much love must Jesus have felt when He unflinchingly faced it
all.

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