The Ministry Of JESUS

Bible Study written by

Pastor Janice L. Williams

KJV = KING JAMES VERSION; THE BIBLE TRANSLATION USED FOR THIS BIBLE STUDY

Bible Study For Wednesday, December 30th, 2009-January 6th, 2010

 

SCRIPTURES PRINTED IN RED ARE WORDS SPOKEN BY JESUS.

LET'S LOOK AT SOME WORD DEFINITIONS FOR THIS BIBLE STUDY

• SUFFER/SUFFERED - allow: to allow somebody to do something (archaic or literary)
• SUBMISSION/SUBMITTED - 1. yielding, or readiness to yield: a willingness to yield or surrender to somebody, or the act of doing so 2. to give in to somebody's authority 3. agree to: to agree to undergo something 4. defer to: to defer to another's knowledge, judgement, or experience
• CONSECRATED- 1.declare place holy: to declare or set apart a building, area of ground, or specific spot as holy or sacred 2.dedicate to specific purpose: to dedicate something or somebody to a specific purpose 3.bless Communion bread and wine: to sanctify the bread and wine for use in the Communion service, as symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ 4.ordain as bishop: to ordain a priest as a bishop 5.make custom revered: to cause a custom to bedeeply respected
• ANOINTING/ANOINTED - 1.bless somebody with oil: to rub oil or ointment on a part of somebodys body, usually the head or feet, as part of a religious ceremony 2.ordain somebody: to install somebody officially or ceremonially in a position or office 3.the yoke destroying power of God
• LUNATICK/LUNATIC * 1. offensive term: an offensive former term for somebody who has a psychiatric disorder (archaic offensive) 2.irresponsible person: somebody who is regarded as behaving in a wildly reckless manner (informal insult)
• PALSY/PARALYTIC * inability to move: muscular inability to move part or all of the body
• CENTURION * in ancient Rome, an officer in charge of a unit of foot soldiers (century -history unit of Roman soldiers: a group of foot soldiers in ancient Rome, originally comprising a hundred men but later between sixty and eighty)
• APOSTLE * 1. strong believer in something: somebody who believes strongly in an idea or cause and tries to persuade others to share it 2.prominent Christian missionary: a prominent Christian missionary, especially one who is responsible for first converting a nation
• BIER* 1. stand for casket: a table on which a casket or a corpse is placed
  2. frame for carrying coffin: a wooden frame on which a corpse or a coffin is carried to where it will be buried
• SCRIBE * 1. history book copier: somebody who copies or writes out documents, especially somebody who copied manuscripts in medieval times 2. judaism copier of Jewish religious documents: somebody who copies the Sefer Torah and other religious documents using a quill pen on parchment
• TRIBUTE * history -payment by one ruler to another: a payment made by one ruler or state to another as a sign of submission
• STOOPED * 1.bend body: to bend the top half of the body forward and downward 2. walk or stand bent over: to walk or stand with the head and shoulders bent forward and downward
• EPILEPTIC/EPILEPSY * medical disorder of the brain: a medical disorder involving episodes of abnormal electrical discharge in the brain and characterized by periodic sudden loss or impairment of consciousness, often accompanied by convulsions
  
• DEMONIAC* 1. resembling or characteristic of an evil spirit 2. evil or wicked in character or nature
  3.frantic: intense, frantic, or wild, as if driven or possessed by a demon4.somebody influenced by a demon: somebody believed to be possessed by an evil supernatural being (archaic)
• LEPER/LEPROSY* tropical skin and nerve disease: a tropical disease that mainly affects the skin and nerves, and can cause tissue change.
  Leprosy is transmitted following close personal contact and has a long incubation period (130 years). A disease once considered to be contagious and incurable; it can now be cured and rendered noncontagiousif treated with a combination of drugs; and of course this condition can still be cured today, through faith in JESUS CHRIST for the healing. [please review #5 "Faith Healing" Weekly Bible Study]
• DROPSY/EDEMA * 1.medicine excess fluid: an abnormal buildup of serous fluid between tissue cells 2.botany excess fluid in plant: an abnormal swelling in a plant, chiefly caused by a buildup of excess water

AT ABOUT THIRTY YEARS OF AGE, JESUS BEGAN HIS MINISTRY ON EARTH.[SEE LUKE 3:23 KJV]

NOW LET'S EXAMINE TWO STEPS JESUS TOOK TO PREPARE TO GO FORTH IN MINISTRY

1. HE SUBMITTED TO GOD'S ORDAINED AUTHORITY

JESUS SUBMITTED HIMSELF TO THE SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY GOD HAD ORDAINED. EVEN THOUGH JESUS NEVER SINNED, HE SUBMITTED HIMSELF TO THE SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, WHO WAS ANOINTED BY GOD WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WHILE HE WAS IN HIS MOTHER'S WOMB, [LUKE 1:15] TO BAPTIZE THE PEOPLE FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS. JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS ORDAINED BY GOD TO, "PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD."

• MATTHEW 3:3 KJV - FOR THIS IS HE [JOHN THE BAPTIST] THAT WAS SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHET ESAIAS, SAYING, THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT.
• MATTHEW 3:13 thru 15 KJV -13/THEN COMETH JESUS FROM GALILEE TO JORDAN UNTO JOHN, TO BE BAPTIZED OF HIM. 14/ BUT JOHN FORBAD HIM, SAYING, I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED OF THEE, AND COMEST THOU TO ME? 15/ AND JESUS ANSWERING SAID UNTO HIM, SUFFER [ALLOW] IT TO BE SO FOR NOW: FOR THUS IT BECOMETH US TO FULFIL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. THEN HE SUFFERED [ALLOWED] HIM.

2. HE FACED TEMPTATION WITH CONSECRATED PRAYER AND FASTING: WHICH, COUPLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, GREATLY EMPOWERS BELIEVERS TO BOLDLY SPEAK THE WORD OF GOD WHEN TEMPTED OR CONFRONTED WITH EVIL. [MATTHEW 17:21 KJV - HOWBEIT THIS KIND GOETH NOT OUT BUT BY PRAYER AND FASTING. * PLEASE REVIEW #25 "DELIVERANCE TIME" WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY.]

MATTHEW 4:1 thru 11 KJV - 1/ THEN WAS JESUS LED UP OF THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS TO BE TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL. 2/ AND WHEN HE HAD FASTED FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS, HE WAS AFTERWARD AN HUNGERED. 3/ AND WHEN THE TEMPTER [SATIN-THE DEVIL] CAME TO HIM, HE SAID, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, COMMAND THAT THESE STONES BE MADE BREAD. 4/ BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID, IT IS WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD. 5/ THEN THE DEVIL TAKETH HIM UP INTO THE HOLY CITY, AND SETTETH HIM ON A PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE, 6/ AND SAITH UNTO HIM, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, CAST THYSELF DOWN: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE CONCERNING THEE: AND IN THEIR HANDS THEY SHALL BEAR THEE UP, LEST AT ANY TIME THOU DASH THY FOOT AGAINST A STONE. 7/ JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, IT IS WRITTEN AGAIN, THOU SHALT NOT TEMPT THE LORD THY GOD.

8/ AGAIN, THE DEVIL TAKETH HIM UP INTO AN EXCEEDING HIGH MOUNTAIN, AND SHOWETH HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THEM; 9/ AND SAITH UNTO HIM, ALL THESE THINGS WILL I GIVE THEE, IF THOU WILT FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME. 10/ THEN SAITH JESUS UNTO HIM, GET THEE HENCE, SATAN: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, THOU SHALT WORSHIP THE LORD THY GOD, AND HIM ONLY SHALT THOU SERVE. 11/ THEN THE DEVIL LEAVETH HIM, AND, BEHOLD, ANGELS CAME AND MINISTERED UNTO HIM.

LUKE 4:14 thru 21 KJV - 14/ AND JESUS RETURNED IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT INTO GALIEE: AND THERE WENT OUT A FAME OF HIM THROUGH ALL THE REGION ROUND ABOUT. 15/ AND HE TAUGHT IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, BEING GLORIFIED OF ALL. 16/ AND HE CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP: AND, AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY, AND STOOD UP FOR TO READ. 17/ AND THERE WAS DELIVERED UNTO HIM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ESAIAS. AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE BOOK, HE FOUND THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS WRITTEN, 18/ THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE HATH ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; HE HATH SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PREACH DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERING OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET AT LIBERTY THEM THAT ARE BRUISED,

19/ TO PREACH THE ACCEPTIBLE YEAR OF THE LORD. 20/ AND HE CLOSED THE BOOK, AND HE GAVE IT AGAIN TO THE MINISTER, AND HE SAT DOWN. AND THE EYES OF ALL THEM THAT WERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE WERE FASTENED ON HIM. 21/ AND HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THEM, THIS DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS.

MATTHEW 4:17 KJV * FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO PREACH, AND TO SAY, REPENT: FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.

TEACH / PREACH / PROPHESY / HEAL / DELIVERANCE-SET CAPTIVES FREE / PERFORM MIRACLES

THE ANOINTED MINISTRY OF JESUS

MATTHEW 4:23, 24 KJV * 23/ AND JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL GALILEE, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING ALL MANNER OF SICKNESS AND ALL MANNER OF DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. 24/ AND HIS FAME WENT THROUGHOUT ALL SYRIA: AND THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM ALL SICK PEOPLE THAT WERE TAKEN WITH DIVERS DISEASES AND TORMENTS, AND THOSE WHICH WERE POSSESSED WITH DEVILS, AND THOSE WHICH WERE LUNATICK, AND THOSE THAT HAD THE PALSY; AND HE HEALED THEM.

FOR SOME IN-DEPTH TEACHING OF JESUS, PLEASE READ THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, CHAPTERS 5, 6, 7, & 8.

MATTHEW 7:29 KJV * FOR HE TAUGHT THEM AS ONE HAVING AUTHORITY, AND NOT AS THE SCRIBES.

SOME OF MUCH HEALING PERFORMED BY JESUS

MATTHEW 8:2, 3 KJV * 2/ AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A LEPER AND WORSHIPPED HIM, SAYING, LORD, IF THOU WILT, THOU CANST MAKE ME CLEAN. 3/ AND JESUS PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TOUCHED HIM, SAYING, I WILL; BE THOU CLEAN. AND IMMEDIATELY HIS LEPROSY WAS CLEANSED.

JESUS SENT HIS WORD OF HEALING TO A CENTURION'S SERVANT WHO WAS "AT HOME SICK OF THE PALSY, GRIEVOUSLY TORMENTED", AND THE SERVANT WAS HEALED THAT SAME HOUR [MATTHEW 8:5 thru 13 KJV]            * PLEASE REVIEW#5 "FAITH HEALING" WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY.

HE HEALED THE MOTHER-IN-LAW OF HIS DISCIPLE PETER, WHO WAS SICK WITH A FEVER. * MATTHEW 8:14, 15 KJV * 14/ AND WHEN JESUS WAS COME INTO PETER'S HOUSE, HE SAW HIS WIFE'S MOTHER LAID, AND SICK OF A FEVER. 15/ AND HE TOUCHED HER: AND SHE AROSE, AND MINISTERED UNTO THEM.

HE FORGAVE THE SINS OF A MAN SICK WITH PALSY, AND HEALED HIM [MATTHEW 9:2 thru 7 KJV]

HE GAVE SIGHT TO THE BLIND [9:27 thru 30]

JESUS HEALED A WOMAN OF A DISEASE THAT HADCAUSED HER TO BLEED UNCONTROLLABLY FOR TWELVE YEARS [MATTHEW 9:20 thru 22KJV * MARK 5:24 thru 34 * LUKE 8:43 thru 48 KJV].

DELIVERANCE BY JESUS

HE SET CAPTIVES FREE FROM DEMONIC SPIRITS

[PLEASE REVIEW #25 "DELIVERANCE TIME" WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY]

MATTHEW 8:16 KJV * WHEN THE EVEN WAS COME, THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM MANY THAT WERE POSSESSED WITH DEVILS: AND HE CAST OUT THE SPIRITS WITH HIS WORD, AND HEALED ALL THAT WERE SICK

HE RAISED THE DEAD TO LIFE

MATTHEW 9:18, 23 thru 26 KJV

18/ WHILE HE SPAKE THESE THINGS UNTO THEM, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A CERTAIN RULER, AND WORSHIPPED HIM, SAYING, MY DAUGHTER IS EVEN NOW DEAD: BUT COME AND LAY THY HAND UPON HER, AND SHE SHALL LIVE. 23/ AND WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE RULER'S HOUSE, AND SAW THE MINSTRELS AND THE PEOPLE MAKING A NOISE, 24/ HE SAID UNTO THEM, GIVE PLACE: FOR THE MAID IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH. AND THEY LAUGHED HIM TO SCORN. 25/ BUT WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE PUT FORTH, HE WENT IN, AND TOOK HER BY THE HAND, AND THE MAID AROSE. 26/ AND THE FAME HEREOF WENT ABROAD INTO ALL THAT LAND.

LUKE 7:12 thru 15 KJV

12/ NOW WHEN HE CAME NIGH TO THE GATE OF THE CITY, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A DEAD MAN CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY SON OF HIS MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW: AND MUCH PEOPLE OF THE CITY WAS WITH HER. 13/ AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HE HAD COMPASSION ON HER, AND SAID UNTO HER, WEEP NOT. 14/ AND HE CAME AND TOUCHED THE BIER: AND THEY THAT BARE HIM STOOD STILL. AND HE SAID, YOUNG MAN, I SAY UNTO THEE, ARISE. 15/ AND HE THAT WAS DEAD SAT UP, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. AND HE DELIVERED HIM TO HIS MOTHER.

JOHN 11:38 thru 44 KJV

38/JESUS THEREFORE AGAIN GROANING IN HIMSELF COMETH TO THE GRAVE. IT WAS A CAVE, AND A STONE LAY UPON IT. 39/ JESUS SAID, TAKE YE AWAY THE STONE. MARTHA, THE SISTER OF HIM THAT WAS DEAD, SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, BY THIS TIME HE STINKETH: FOR HE HATH BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS. 40/ JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, SAID I NOT UNTO THEE, THAT IF THOU WOULDEST BELIEVE, THOU SHOULDEST SEE THE GLORY OF GOD? 41/ THEN THEY TOOK AWAY THE STONE FROM THE PLACE WHERE THE DEAD WAS LAID. AND JESUS LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND SAID, FATHER I THANK THEE THAT THOU HAS HEARD ME. 42/ AND I KNEW THAT THOU HEAREST ME ALWAYS: BUT BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE WHICH STAND BY I SAID IT, THAT THEY MAY BELIEVE THAT THOU HAST SENT ME. 43/ AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN, HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, LAZARUS, COME FORTH. 44/ AND HE THAT WAS DEAD CAME FORTH, BOUND HAND AND FOOT WITH GRAVE CLOTHES: AND HIS FACE WAS BOUND ABOUT WITH A NAPKIN. JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, LOOSE HIM, AND LET HIM GO.

LIST OF HEALING MIRACLES PERFORMED BY JESUS

1. OFFICIAL'S SON * JOHN 4:46-54
2. POSSESSED MAN *MARK 1:21-27 * LUKE 4:33-37
3. SIMON PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW * MATTHEW 8:14-15 * MARK 1:29-31 * LUKE 4:38-39
4. MANY AT SUNSET * MATTHEW 8:16-17 * MARK 1:32-39 * LUKE 4:40-41
5. LEPER * MATTHEW 8:1-4 *MARK 1:40-45 * LUKE 5:12-15
6. PALSY/PARALYTIC * MATTHEW 9:1-8 * MARK 2:1-12 * LUKE 5:18-26
7. MAN AT BETHESDA * JOHN 5:1-17
8. WITHERED HAND * MATTHEW 12:9-13 * MARK 3:1-6 * LUKE 6:6-11
9. CROWD IN GALILEE * MATTHEW 4:23-25
10. CENTURION'S SON * MATTHEW 8:5-13 * LUKE 7:1-10
11. WIDOW'S SON * LUKE 7:11-17
12. 2 DEMONIACS * MATTHEW 8:28-34 *MARK 5:1-20 * LUKE 8-26-39
13. BLEEDING WOMAN * MATTHEW 9:20-22 * MARK 5:24-34 * LUKE 8:43-48
14. DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS * MATTHEW 9:18-19 &23-26* MARK 5:22-24 & 35-43 * LUKE 8:41-42 & 49-56
15. 2 BLIND MEN * MATTHEW 9:27-31
16. MUTE MAN * MATTHEW 9:32-34
17. THOSE WHO TOUCHED HIS CLOTHES * MATTHEW 14:34-36 * MARK 6:53 thru 56
18. CROWD IN GALILEE * MATTHEW 9:35
19. FEW IN NAZARETH * MARK 6:1-6
20. GREEK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER * MATTHEW 15:21-28 * MARK 7:24-30
21. DEAF MAN WITH SPEECH IMPEDIMENT* MARK 7:31-37
22. GREAT MULTITUDES * MATTHEW 15:29-31
23. EPILEPTIC BOY * MATTHEW 17:14-21 * MARK 9:14-29 * LUKE 9:37-42
24. BLIND MAN * JOHN 9:1-41
25. BLIND/MUTE MAN * MATTHEW 12:22 *LUKE 11;14
26. BLIND MAN OF BETHSAIDA * MARK 8:22-26
27. STOOPED WOMAN * LUKE 13:10-17
28. MAN WITH DROPSY * LUKE 14:1-16
29. LAZARUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD * JOHN 11:1-45
30. TEN LEPERS * LUKE 17:11-19
31. GREAT MULTITUDES IN JUDAEA * MATTHEW 19:1-2
32. BLIND BARTIMAEUS *MARK 10:46-52 *LUKE 18:35-43
33. MULTITUDES IN JERUSALEM * MATTHEW 21 10-14
34. EAR OF MALCHUS * LUKE 22:47-53 * JOHN 18:10-11
35. RESURRECTION * MATTHEW 28:1-10 * MARK 16:1-20 * LUKE 24:1-53 * JOHN 20:1-31

OTHER RECORDED MIRACLES JESUS PERFORMED

• 1. JESUS CHANGED WATER INTO WINE AT A WEDDING JOHN 2:1 thru 10

JOHN 2:11 KJV * THIS BEGINNING OF MIRACLES DID JESUS IN CANA OF GALILEE, AND MANIFESTED FORTH HIS GLORY; AND HIS DISCIPLES BELIEVED ON HIM.

• 2. 1st MIRACULOUS CATCH OF FISH / LUKE 5:1 thru 11 KJV
• 3. CALMED A STORMY SEA/ MATTHEW 8: 23 thru 26 KJV * MARK 4:36 thru 41 KJV * LUKE 8:22 thru 25 KJV

MATTHEW 8:27 KJV BUT THE MEN MARVELLED, SAYING, WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS, THAT EVEN THE WINDS AND SEA OBEY HIM!

• 4. FED ABOVE 5000 PEOPLE WITH FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD AND TWO FISH/ MATTHEW 14:13 thru 21 KJV * MARK 6:32 thru 44 KJV * LUKE 9:10 thru 17 KJV * JOHN 6:1 thru 13 KJV
• 5. WALKED ON WATER / MATTHEW 14:22 thru 33 KJV * MARK 6:45 thru 51 KJV
• 6. FED ABOVE 4000 PEOPLE WITH SEVEN LOAVES OF BREAD AND A FEW LITTLE FISHES/ MATTHEW 15:32 thru 38 KJV / MARK 8:1 thru 9 KJV
• 7. INSTRUCTED PETER TO FIND MONEY IN THE MOUTH OF A FISH TO PAY TRIBUTE / MATTHEW 17:24 thru 27 KJV
• 8. COMMANDED A BARE TREE TO WITHER AWAY AND IT DID IMMEDIATELY/ MATTHEW 21:18 thru 21 KJV * MARK 11:12 thru 23 KJV
• 9. 2nd MIRACULOUS CATCH OF FISH / JOHN 21:1 thru 14 KJV

JOHN 21:25 KJV* AND THERE ARE ALSO MANY OTHER THINGS WHICH JESUS DID, THE WHICH, IF THEY SHOULD BE WRITTEN EVERY ONE, I SUPPOSE THAT EVEN THE WORLD ITSELF COULD NOT CONTAIN THE BOOKS THAT SHOULD BE WRITTEN. AMEN.

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