Jesus' Healings (Discussion Questions)

Categories: Gospel of Luke, Jesus (Healings)

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Read Luke 4-5 and 7-8

Demons are cast out Luke 4:31-37

List the statements made by the man with an unclean devil.
How did Jesus respond?
What did the people think who witnessed this healing?

Peter's mother-in-law was healed Luke 4: 38,39

What was wrong with Peter's mother-in-law?
What did Jesus do?
What did Peter's mother-in-law do after she was healed?

A leper is cleansed Luke 5:12-15

What did the leper ask Jesus?
What did Jesus do that was so unusual to the leper? [he touched him]
What did Jesus tell the leper to do after he was healed?
Why did he have to go to the priest?

A paralytic is healed Luke 5:16-26

What is unusual about this story?
Did Jesus get upset about the hole in the roof?
What did Jesus tell the man?

A centurion's servant is healed Luke 7:1-10

Who was sick?
Why doesn't the centurion want Jesus to come to his house? [He is a Gentile and a Jew would be considered unclean if he entered his house – he is being kind and considerate]
Why did Jesus marvel?
What did Jesus tell the centurion?
What happened to the servant?

A widow's son is raised from the dead Luke 7:11-16

Why did Jesus stop the funeral procession?
What did Jesus say to the mother? The son?
What did the people say when they saw the young man alive?

Devils cast into the swine Luke 8: 26-40

What is wrong with this man?
What does Legion mean? [6000 soldiers]
Why did the devils enter the swine?
Why do you think the swine were drowned? [Jews believed swine were unclean yet they were profiting from the herd. This was hypocritical.]

A woman touches Jesus Luke 8:41-48

What was wrong with this woman?
Why did she touch Jesus?
How long had she been ill?
What did Jesus call her?
What did Jesus say about her faith?
What did this woman interrupt?

Jairus' daughter is raised from the dead Luke 8:49-56

Who is Jairus?
Why is he important?
What does he ask Jesus to do?
What happens as Jesus is going with Jairus?
How old was the daughter?
What happened while Jesus was talking to the other woman?Why wasn't Jesus concerned that the girl had died? Who did he have to put out of the house before he could heal the daughter?
Why are these two stories told together?
What do these healings tell you about Jesus?
What did Jairus need for his daughter's healing?