The Bible in a Year

New Testament

Luke 19 to John 2
Read this coming week:
Feb 28 Lev 19‐20, Ps 55, Luke 19 Mar 1 Lev 21‐22, Ps 56, Luke 20 Mar 2
Lev 23‐24, Ps 57, Luke 21 Mar 3 Lev 25, Ps 58, Luke 22 Mar 4 Lev 26, Ps
59, Luke 23 Mar 5 Lev 27, Ps 60, Luke 24 Mar 6 Num 1, Ps 61, John 1 Mar
7 Num 2, Ps 62, John 2

Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading Luke 19 to John 2. Answer
the following:
• What is Zaccheus’ occupation? Whose son does
Jesus say Zaccheus is?
• What does Jesus tell us about marriage and
heaven?
• Where does Jesus go every night after preaching
in the synagogue?
• What does Jesus say He will eat “in the kingdom
of God?”
 • What do the people who see Jesus die go home
doing?
• What is Jesus doing at the end of Luke’s Gospel?
• Who are the disciples that Jesus calls in John?
• When does Jesus cleanse the temple in John?
(Extra credit, when does this happen in the other
Gospels?)
The Johannine Difference
The Gospel of John is “different”. The other three
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) are called
“synoptic” because they “see together” the same story.
John sees the same story, but he certainly does not see
it together with his Gospel writing contemporaries.

John’s Gospel does not share stylistic or chronological

unity with the other Gospels for a reason, however.
John’s Gospel is written, it appears, in a chiasm. A
chiasm is a literary structure that is all but gone in our
modern language arts. This structure would reinforce
its points by leading up to a major point (pre-echo),
giving the major point (sonic boom), and then trailing
with retellings of the point (echo).

Here is an illustration:
a.) There is a dog (pre echo 1)
b.) The dog is black (pre echo 2)
c.) The dog bit its owner (sonic boom)
d.) The owner has had the dog for 4 years (echo 1)
e.) The owner’s name is Bob (echo 2)

The major point is that the dog bit its owner, but the
chiasm helps to support that major point on both sides.
For this reason, sometimes John’s content does not
seem to initially “agree” with its synoptic brothers – but
the truth is still the same throughout and these things
are written that you may believe in Jesus as the Christ
and Lord of all.
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