‘Name: PASCUA, DANICA A.

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Read Matthew chapters 1-2, and Luke chapters 1-2, then answer the following questions: DO NOT
COPY THE ANSWERS OF YOUR CLASSMATES OR YOUR FRIENDS. MINUS 20 points for those who
will copy their answers from the others and for those who will allow others to copy from them. COPY
YOUR ANSWERS FROM THE BIBLE. Please write your answers in Bold letters.

A. MATTHEW 1: 1-25

1. What names and or titles are given to the baby? What does each mean?
MESSIAH – THERE WERE 14 GENERATION UP TO THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH.
MEANS THE ANNOINTED ONE
JESUS – HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS
IMMANUEL – MEANS “GOD IS WITH US”

2. Give the names of the 5 women mentioned in the story.

MARY, TAMAR, RAHAB, RUTH, BATHSHEEBA THE WIFE OF URIAH

B. Matthew 2: 1 -12

1. For whom where the wise men searching?

FOR THE MESSIAH

2. Why did the wise men leave home?

WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR IN THE EAST, THEY SEACRH ON WHERE THE BABY
WILL BE BORN AS THE KING OF JEW, SO THAT THEY CAN WORSHIP HIM.

3. What does Herod learned from the chief priests?

HE LEARNED THAT THE MESSIAH WILL BE BORN IN THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
IN JUDEA, AND THEY ANSWERED “FOR THIS IS WAT THE PROPHET WROTE:
BETHLEHEM IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, YOU ARE BY NO MEANS THE LEAST OF
THE LEADING CITIES OF JUDAH; FOR FROM YOU WILL COME A LEADER WHO
WILL GUIDE MY PEOPLE FROM ISRAEL.”

4. Why were the wise warned not to return to Herod as had asked?
BECAUSE GOD WARNED THEM IN THEIR DREAMS NOT TO GO BACK TO THEIR
COUNTRY. AS HEROD INTENDS TO HARM THE CHILD.

C. Matthew 2: 12 – 23

1. Why would Herod wanted to destroy the child?

 FEARING THAT IN TIME JESUS WOULD TAKE OVER HIS THRONE, SO HE
ORDERED TO KILL ALL THE BOYS IN BETHLEHEMEN AND NEIGHBORHOOD WHO
WERE TWO YEARS OLD AND YOUNGER.
 2. Where does the family flee?
IN EGYPT

3. Where does the family eventually settle?

IN NAZARETH

D. Luke 1:26 – 56

1. How does God communicate?

GOD SENT ANGEL GABRIEL.

2. What names or titles are given the baby? What does each of these men?
JESUS – THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD. THE LORD WILL MAKE HIM A KING,
AS HIS ANCESTOR DAVID WAS, AND HE WILL BE THE KING OF THE
DESCENDANTS OF JACOB FOR EVER, HIS KINGDOM WILL NEVER END.
SON OF GOD – HOLY CHILD

3. What is the sign given to Mary that the angel speaks for God?
THE ANGEL SAID TO MARY “THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL COME ON YOU, AND GOD’S
POWER WILL REST UPON YOU. FOR THIS REASON THE HOLY CHILD WILL BE
CALLED THE SON OF GOD. THE ANGEL EXAMPLE ELIZABETH WHO IS SIX
MONTHS PREGNANT EVEN THOUGH SHE IS OLD, BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING
THAT GOD CANNOT DO.

4. Who is the central character in the story?

MARY

E. Luke 2: 1 – 2

1. Why did Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem?

FOR CENSUS

2. Where is the baby born?

BETHLEHEM

3. How does God communicate?

THROUGH ANGELS

4. What sign/s are the shepherds given to help them recognize the baby?
THEY WILL FIND A BABY WRAPPED IN STRIPS OF CLOTH AND LYING IN THE
MANGER.

5. What names or titles given to the baby?

CHRIST THE LORD – SAVIOUR
F. Luke 2: 21 – 40

1. What are two indications that Jesus’ parents are devout Jews?
THEY PERFORM THE CEREMONY OF PURIFICATION, SO THEY TOOK THE CHILD
TO JERUSALEM TO PRESENT HIM TO THE LORD, AND THEY OFFERED A
SACRIFICE OF A PAIR OF DOVES OR TWO YOUNG PIGEONS.

2. How does Simeon say the baby will do? How is the crucifixion “foreshadowed”?
SIMEON SAID “THIS CHILD IS CHOSEN BY GOD FOR THE DESTRUCTION AND
THE SALVATION OF MANY IN ISRAEL. HE WILL BE A SIGN FROM GOD WHICH
MANY PEOPLE WILL SPEAK AGAINST AND SO REVEAL THEIR SECRET
THOUGHTS. AND SORROW, LIKE A SHARP SWORD, WILL BREAK YOUR OWN
HEART.

3. Who was Anna?

VERY OLD PROPHET, A WIDOW AND DAUGHTER OF PHANUEL OF THE TRIBE OF
ASHER. MARRIED FOR SEVEN YEARS AND WAS 84 YEARS OLD. SHE NEVER LEFT
THE TEMPLE; DAY AND NIGHT WORHIPPED GOD. FASTING AND PRAYING.

G. Luke 2: 41 – 52

1. What indication is there that Jesus’ parents were devout Jews?

EVERY YEAR THEY WILL GO TO JERUSALEM FOR THE PASSOVER FESTIVAL.

2. What do you think were the reactions of Jesus’ parents after finding Jesus in the Temple?
THEY WERE ASTONISHED WHEN THEY SAW JESUS SITTING WITH THE JEWISH
TEACHERSN LISTENING AND ASKING QUESTIONS. THEY WERE AMAZED BY THE
WAY JESUS ANSWERED.