Luke 1:39-80
Key verse 1:78
1.
[39-45] What did Mary do then and why? (39-40)
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, what happened to her? (41,44) What did
she exclaim about Mary and her baby? (42-44) Discuss the nature and source of
Elizabeth's, her baby's, and Mary's joy.
How could it be possible? (45)
2.
[46-56] What changes came about in Mary's soul
and spirit? (46-47) Why? (48a) What are
the great things done for her? (49) What's its significance for her? (48b) What did she come to understand through this
experience? (50-55)
3.
[57-66] What was people's response when
Elizabeth gave birth to a son? (57-58) How would Zachariah and Elizabeth like
to name their son? (59-63) Why? (Cf. 1:13) What happened to Zechariah then?
(64) How did people respond and why? (65-66) Discuss what God's primary purpose
in muting and opening the mouth of Zechariah at this time might be.(ref. 1:20;
Cf. Ezek 24:15-24-27; 33:22)
4.
[67-75] What did Zechariah do and how? (67) What
two things did he praise God for? (68b, 71) How, why and/or for what purpose
did God do each? (69-70; 72-75)
5.
[76-80] What would Zechariah's son do? (76) For
what? (77) What does that come through and why? (78a) By His mercy, what would
come to them and for what? (78b-79) What did the rising sun refer to? How did
the child grow and live? (80)
6.
Please find a similarity between what each of these
three people, Elizabeth, Mary, and Zechariah, came to see and feel as they
faced the coming of Jesus and its significance.
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