A summary of the styles Jesus used when teaching his message,

1. JESUS AS TEACHER

2. RABBI
• Title used to describe Jesus
• Word means ‘teacher’ in Hebrew
• Many came from all over to learn from him
• Given respect from the start

3. STYLES
• Proverbs
• Actions/his own example
• Similes/Metaphors
• Lectures/Sermons
• Parables
• Miracles

4. Lectures/Sermons
• Sermon on the Mount (MT 5-7)
• MT 5
– Beatitudes
– Similes of Salt and Light
• Not really similes
• Salt
– Gives flavor
– Used to preserve
– Very valuable
• Light
– Helps us see
– Gives us security

5. – Teachings---MT 5
• On Law
• On Anger
• On Retailiation
– Teachings---MT 6
• On Alms
• On Prayer
• On Fasting
– Teachings---MT 7
• Judging others
• Golden Rule (Proverb)

6. PARABLES
• Short stories used to teach a lesson
– Used images familiar to the people
• Money
• Agriculture
• Average people
– Did not really happen

7. PARABLES
• Sower and the Seed
– LK 8:4-8
– Jesus explains in LK 8:11-15
– Followed by Weeds Among the Wheat and
explanation

8. • Good Samaritan
– LK 10:29-37
– Answer to a question
• Greatest Commandment
• Love God with your whole heart, being, strength,
and mind
– Shema
– DT 6
• Love neighbor as your self (QUESTION)
• Samaritan is man who helps

9. • Lost Son
– LK 15:11-32
• Forgiveness
• Father is God
• Both sons represent us

10. MIRACLES
• Marvelous events which cannot be explained by
science or reason
• Three types
– Nature
• Nature
• Creation
– Healing
• Illness
• Death
– Exorcism
• Sin
• Evil

11. Nature Miracles
• Water into Wine (JN 2:1-11)
• Walking on Water (JN 6:16-21)
• Feeding of the 5000 (MT 14:13-21)

12. HEALING MIRACLES
• Man born blind (JN 9:1-41)
• Jairus’s daughter and the woman with the
hemorrhage (MK 8:40-56)
• Raising of Lazarus (JN 11:1-53)

13. EXORCISM
• Not the same as in movies
• Casting out of demons
• MK 1:9-15
• MK 5:1-20