Monday Night Bible Study Parables Lesson 4
Parable of the Wedding Banquet
QUESTIONS
Day 1-Review
1.What did you find from the commentary notes that was helpful to you?
2.What did you find helpful from listening to the lecture?
Day 2-Matthew 22:1-3[Open NKJV] [Open NIV]
3.Make a bullet point list of the parable’s facts you glean from verses 1-3.
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b.
c.
4.What principles can you develop from the facts listed above?
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b.
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5.? Personal Question: How might you personally apply a principle or two from the list above?
Day 3-Matthew 22:4-6[Open NKJV] [Open NIV]
6.In verse 4, the king sends out a second round of invitations to his son’s wedding feast. What do you learn about the heart of the king from this action?
7.For those invited to the wedding feast, what two reasons are given in verse 5 that would keep them from attending the feast? What point is Jesus making by using these two reasons?
8.? Thought Question: Using verse 6, describe how the servants of the king were treated for simply inviting these guests to his son’s wedding feast? Why do you think the servants were treated so poorly? Write down a spiritual principle that is being taught in verse 6.
9.? Personal Question: Have you ever made an excuse for not participating in something to which one of God’s servants has invited you? Describe the circumstance.
Day4-Matthew 22:7-10[Open NKJV] [Open NIV]
10.Give a bullet point summary of the action taken by the king toward the way the originally invited guests treated his servants.
v. 7-
v. 8-
v. 9-
v. 10-
11.? Thought Question: What do you think is meant by the statement in verse 8, “but those invited were not worthy”? What do you think caused their unworthiness?
12.? Thought Question: What do you think is meant by the statement in verse 10, that the “servants gathered all whom they found, both bad and good”?
Day 5-Matthew 22:1-10[Open NKJV] [Open NIV]
13.What or who might be associated with the following from the parable?
a.The king?
b.The son?
c.The wedding feast?
d.The king’s servants?
e.The originally invited guests?
f.The latter invited guests?
g.The response of the king to the first invited guests?
14.? Personal Question: Which of the charactersdo you identify with at this point in the story and why?
Day 6-Matthew 22:11-14[Open NKJV] [Open NIV]
15.? Thought Question: Why do you think the king made such a big deal about one guest not wearing the appropriate wedding attire? (Note: It was customary for the host of the wedding feast to distribute his guests’ proper attire for the feast just prior to the guests entering the celebration.)
16.? Thought Question: Why do you think the king responded so harshly to the guest that was not dressed appropriately? What spiritual principle can you gain from the king’s response?
17.What do you think is the main point being made by this parable?
18.? Personal Question: How might you apply that principle to your own life?