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 Why did John the Baptist doubt? The cleansing 'fire' He brought was yet to come in fullness.  He was in prison. In essence, his expectations were not met. 14. How did Jesus confirm His identity to John (see Luke 7:21-22)?   He healed in front of John's disciples ("In that hour", v 21) and pointed to His ministry of healing and preaching as fuilfillment of OT prophecy about the Messiah (Isa 29:18. 24:5-6, 6:1-2). 15.Compare Isaiah 61:2 to Luke 4:19. What part of Isaiah 61:2 was Jesus fulfilling, and what part was He leaving for His future return? Fulfilling in current ministry : t o bring good news to the poor, to bind the brokenhearted, free the captives and open spiritually and physically blinded eyes. To proclaim the time of God's favour (cf. 2:14) Leaving for future return: the day of God's vengeance/judgment, when all who mourn will be comforted (cf. 6:21b) 16. Why did the people reject John when he "sang a dirge "(7:32, when he lived stric...

16  Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17  When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. (Matt 28:16-17) We looked at this passage together because Pastor Ling preached on this earlier this week. We asked if it was legitimate to be entrusted with the Great Commission (Matt 28;18-20) even though we doubt. So I asked: 1) Who is it who is doubting? 2) What are they doubting? before we ask that question. The doubt some had is contrasted to the worship of others. Here, the doubt is with respect to the resurrection and triumph of Christ leading to worship of Him as divine. It appears that vs. 16 indicates that only the 11 disciples were referred to here in this verse. The parallel passage in Mk 16:14-19 suggests that this was the case, and yet the context in Mark 16 is different (at table and not on mountain) as well as the disputed authenticity of the later half of Mark 16 weaken this support. If indeed only t...