Following Jesus: Focus On The Message – Matthew 26

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Last Updated on January 7, 2024 by Rocklyn Clarke

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Welcome to Focus On The Message – the first component of our Following Jesus discipleship program. This web page contains the lessons for:

Matthew 20

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Matthew 26

This chapter has 9 lessons. You should ideally cover one chapter (with all of its lessons) in a week, but please don’t let a week go by without completing at least one lesson.

Lesson 1: The Plot Against Jesus

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    • The chief priests and the elders wanted to arrest and kill Jesus, but not during the Passover feast. What had to happen for Jesus’ execution to actually take place during Passover?

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Training assignment (do this yourself, and use it to help train someone else):

    • Read the main passage and related passages above.

Lesson 2: Jesus Anointed at Bethany

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    • What was the name of the woman who anointed Jesus? How do we know?
    • How did people eat at meals in this setting? How did she have access to Jesus feet?

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Training assignment (do this yourself, and use it to help train someone else):

    • Read the main passage and related passages above.

Lesson 3: Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

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    • Read the main passage and related passages above.

Lesson 4: The Lord’s Supper

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    • What do the words “this is my body” and “this is my blood” imply about what will happen to Jesus?
    • Is Jesus trying to tell them something symbolically that they haven’t been able to accept through plainer language?

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Training assignment (do this yourself, and use it to help train someone else):

    • Read the main passage and related passages above.

Lesson 5: Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

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    • Read the main passage and related passages above.

Lesson 6: Gethsemane

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    • Jesus progresses in his prayer.

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    • Read the main passage and related passages above.

Lesson 7: Jesus Arrested

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    • Luke reports that Jesus’ disciples asked him if they should strike with their swords.
    • Matthew, Mark, and Luke report that one of Jesus’ companions drew his sword and cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest.
    • Luke and John report that Jesus tells them to stop. Luke further reports that Jesus healed the wounded man.
    • John reports that the person who struck with the sword was Peter and names the man he wounds as Malchus.

Topics to explore:

    • Jesus makes it clear that, if he asked, the Father would give him more than 12 legions of angels. A Roman legion at that time numbers roughly 6,000 soldiers.

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Training assignment (do this yourself, and use it to help train someone else):

    • Read the main passage and related passages above.

Lesson 8: Jesus Before the Sanhedrin

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    • What was Peter trying to accomplish?

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Lesson 9: Peter Disowns Jesus

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    • Read the main passage and related passages above.

Last Updated on January 7, 2024 by Rocklyn Clarke

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