Lucas 19

Lucas 19

Piper adds that "Insight or understanding is the product of intensive, headache-producing meditation on two or three verses and how they fit together. This kind of reflection and rumination is provoked by asking questions of the text. And you cannot do it if you hurry. Therefore, we must resist the deceptive urge to carve notches in our bibliographic gun. Take two hours to ask ten questions of Galatians 2:20+ and you will gain one hundred times the insight you would have attained by reading thirty pages of the New Testament or any other book. Slow down. Query. Ponder. Chew.... (John Dewey rightly said) "People only truly think when they are confronted with a problem. Without some kind of dilemma to stimulate thought, behavior becomes habitual rather than thoughtful.” “Asking questions is the key to understanding.” --Jonathan Edwards That said, below are the 5W/H questions for each verse in this chapter (click page to enlarge). This is not neatly typed but is handwritten and was used for leading a class discussion on this chapter, so you are welcome to use it in this "as is" condition... Luke 19:1 He entered Jericho and was passing through. Jericho: Jos 2:1 6:1-25,26,27 1Ki 16:34 2Ki 2:18-22 Luke 19 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus Anonymous - Ray Pritchard Zaccheus - Bible Stories for Kids Luke 19:1-10 A Sinner Meets a Seeking Savior, Part 1 - John MacArthur Luke 19:1-10 A Sinner Meets a Seeking Savior, Part 2 - John MacArthur Luke 19:1-10 Jesus: The Seeking Savior, Part 2 - John MacArthur Butler's Outline of Luke 19 The Conversion of Zaccheus (Luke 19:1-10) The Counsel About Stewardship (Luke 19:11-27) The Coming Into Jerusalem (Luke 19:28-40) The Crying Over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41-44) The Cleansing of the Temple (Luke 19:45-48) Analytical Bible Expositor – Luke. Jesus Journey's through Jericho to Jerusalem (ESV global study Bible) JOURNEY TO JERICHO TO MEET A WEE LITTLE MAN He entered Jericho - For context remember that since Lk 9:51+ Jesus had been journeying toward His final goal, Jerusalem and the Passover (for He was the Passover Lamb - 1 Cor 5:7, Jn 1:29 - play Watch the Lamb). (See diagram of Jesus' final journey). He was now near the end, because Jerusalem was only about 15 miles southwest of Jericho. In this final leg of the journey, Jesus had crossed the Jordan river from Perea into Judea (see map or here for Perea) on the road which passed through this city passed through Jericho which was about 700 feet below sea level and was His last stop prior to beginning His ascent into the Holy City (Jerusalem was about 3,300 feet higher than Jericho - Thus in Lk 10:30+ "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho"). Matthew says they were leaving Jericho. Brian Bell on Jericho - In Jesus day it was famous for its balm (an aromatic gum known for its medicinal qualities). It was also the winter capital, which made it a wealthy city. Alfred Edersheim describes Jericho in Jesus’ day: The ancient City occupied not the site of the present wretched hamlet, but lay about half an hour to the north-west of it, by the so-called Elisha-Spring. A second spring rose an hour further to the north-north-west. The water of these springs, distributed by aqueducts, gave, under a tropical sky, unsurpassed fertility to the rich soil along the ‘plain’ of Jericho, which is about twelve or fourteen miles wide ... Josephus describes it as the richest part of the country, and calls it a little Paradise. Marc Antony had bestowed the revenues of its balsam-plantations as an Imperial gift upon Cleopatra, who in turn sold them to Herod. King Herod built a hippodrome there, and also a summer palace. Here grew palm-trees of various kinds, sycamores, the cypress-flower, the myro-balsamum, which yielded precious oil, but especially the balsam-plant. the balsam grown there was sold throughout the ancient near east. If to these advantages of climate, soil, and productions we add, that it was, so to speak, the key of Judaea towards the east, that it lay on the caravan-road from Damascus and Arabia, that it was a great commercial and military center, and lastly, its nearness to Jerusalem, to which it formed the last ‘station’ on the road of the festive pilgrims from Galilee and Peraea—it will not be difficult to understand either its importance or its prosperity. We can picture to ourselves the scene, as our Lord on that afternoon in early spring beheld it. There it was, indeed, already summer, for, as Josephus tells us, even in winter the inhabitants could only bear the lightest clothing of linen. We are approaching it from the Jordan. It is protected by walls, flanked by four forts. These walls, the theatre, and the Amphitheatre, have been built by Herod; the new palace and its splendid gardens are the work of Archelaus. All around wave groves of feathery palms, rising in stately beauty; stretch gardens of roses, and especially sweet-scented balsam-plantations—the largest behind the royal gardens, of which the perfume is carried by the wind almost out to sea, and which may have given to the city its name (Jericho, ‘the perfumed’). It is the Eden of Palestine, the very fairyland of the old world. And how strangely is this gem set! Deep down in that hollowed valley, through which tortuous Jordan winds, to lose his waters in the slimy mass of the Sea of Judgment. The river and the Dead Sea are nearly equidistant from the town—about six miles. Far across the river rise the mountains of Moab, on which lies the purple and violet colouring. Towards Jerusalem and northwards stretch those bare limestone hills, the hiding-place of robbers along the desolate road towards the City. There, and in the neighbouring wilderness of Judæa, are also the lonely dwellings of anchorites [hermits]—while over all this strangely varied scene has been flung the many-coloured mantle of a perpetual summer. And in the streets of Jericho a motley throng meets: pilgrims from Galilee and Peræa, priests who have a ‘station’ here, traders from all lands, who have come to purchase or to sell, or are on the great caravan-road from Arabia and Damascus—robbers and anchorites, wild fanatics, soldiers, courtiers, and busy publicans—for Jericho was the central station for the collection of tax and custom, both on native produce and on that brought from across Jordan. (For additional description of this scene to help set the context read Edersheim's remarks on Jesus' entry into Jericho - The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah - In Jericho And At Bethany - Jericho - A Guest With Zacchæus - The Healing Of Blind Bartimæus - The Plot At Jerusalem - At Bethany, And In The House Of Simon The Leper) William