We continue this issue to the Systematic Study of the New Testament, which includes the study of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the book of Acts. The study is based on the Portuguese version of the New Testament that the reader can see from this link: http://www.bibliaonline.com.br/asv/mc/1. 

Relevant answers to questions are at the end of the text below. 

Questions 

1. What's in the parable of Lazarus and the rich?

2. Referring to the scandals of the world, warning that Jesus did?

3. Passing once through the middle of Galilee, Jesus healed ten lepers in one village. Of those, how many returned to thank and glorify God and what is your nationality?

4. How, according to Jesus, will present the kingdom of God on earth?

5. What's in the parable of the judge and the widow and what is its significance? 

Text for reading 

40. Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled - Jesus was a Saturday at home of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread when they appeared before him a certain man dropsy. The Lord, taking the floor, asked the lawyers and Pharisees: "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" They were silent. Then Jesus healed the man and let him go, telling them: "Which of you shall have it, dropping him into a pit on the Sabbath, the ass or an ox, not just take?" They were not able to replicate this. It was then, noticing how they chose the first seats, the Master told the following parable: "When someone you are invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest they be bidden more worthy than you, and coming asked you what you and him, you say, Give this man place, and then begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when thou art bidden, go and sit in last place, so when she asked you what, you say, 'Friend, go up higher. Then you will be honored before those who are with you at the table. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." (Luke 14:1 to 14:11.) 

41. No man can serve two masters - After telling the parable of the prodigal son, Jesus told his disciples: "There was a certain rich man, which had a steward, and he was accused before he had wasted his goods. And he called him, told him: 'What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be longer steward. And the steward said to himself: What is it then that my master takes my stewardship? Dig, I can not, to beg I am ashamed. I know what I should do, so that, when the stewardship, they may receive me into their homes. And calling to him each of his lord's debtors, said the first: How much do you owe my lord? And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down, and write fifty. Then he said to another: And you, how much do you owe? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write eighty. And the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the sons of light. And I say unto you gain friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. Who is faithful in the least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. For if in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful, who will entrust the true? And if the others have not been faithful, who will give what is yours? "No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate one and love the other, or if there will come the one and despise the other. You can not serve God and mammon. "(Luke 16:1 to 16:13.)

42. It is easier to pass the sky to fall one tittle of the law - the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard these things and made fun of Jesus. But the Master said to them: "Ye are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts: for that is high among men before God is an abomination. The law and the prophets were until John: since it announced the kingdom of God, and every man entereth violently into it. And it's easier to move heaven and earth than falling off a tittle of the law. " Referring following to the importance of observing up to the law governing marriage, Jesus warned: "Anyone who leaves his wife and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries a divorced by her husband commits adultery." (Luke 16:14 to 16:18.) 

43. A lesson in faith - After speaking to the disciples about the scandals that occur in the world and its consequences, Jesus cautioned them, saying, "Look to yourselves. If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day and seven times a day to thee, saying, I repent, forgive him. " The apostles asked Jesus to him that adds to their faith. The Master answered them, saying: "If ye have faith as a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up here, and planted in the sea: and it would obey. And which of you having a servant plowing or tending sheep, whom he came in the field say, Come you, and sit at the table? And do not tell him before: Prepare my supper, and gird thyself and serve me, till have eaten and drunk, and then eat and drink you? Doth he thank that servant because he did what was commanded? I think not. So likewise ye, when ye all that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants, because we have done what we should do. " (Luke 17:3 to 17:10.) 

44. The kingdom of God cometh not with observation - After telling the Pharisees that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward show, the Master said unto them, The Son of man, before that, would suffer greatly. As happened in the days of Noah, so shall the days of the Son of man. Everyone ate, drank and married, until the day Noah entered the ark and the flood came, consuming them all. Incidentally, this occurred in the days of Lot, when people ate, drank, bought and sold, planted and built. However, the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. "So - asserted Jesus - will be the day that the Son of man is revealed. That day, who is on the roof, taking their stuff in the house, not come down to take them and, likewise, which is in the field not turn back. Remember Lot's wife Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses, it will save. "Conclusion, Jesus warned:" I tell you that tonight will be two in bed, one will be taken and the other left. Two women shall be grinding together: one will be taken, and the other left. Two are in the field: one will be taken the other left. " (Luke 17:20 to 17:37.)

 Answers to questions 

1. What's in the parable of Lazarus and the rich?  

There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen, and everyday lived sumptuously. There was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who lay at the door full of sores that. He wanted to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the table of the rich and the dogs came and licked his sores. One day the beggar died, and was carried by angels to the bosom of Abraham, died sometime after the rich, and was buried. One day, being in torments, and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his bosom. Cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that dip in the water at your finger tips and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. He said, however, Abraham, Son, remember that you received your good things in your life, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented. Moreover, there is a great gulf between us and you, so that those who would pass from hence to you can not, nor can those from there pass here. Former Rich then asked him, I pray thee therefore, father, send him to the house of my father, for I have five brothers so that they may bear witness, lest they also come into this place of torment . Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. He replied: No, father Abraham, if any from the dead goes to them, they would repent. But Abraham said, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. (Luke 16:19 to 16:31.)

2. Referring to the scandals of the world, warning that Jesus did?  

Jesus said it was impossible that scandals come, but woe to him through whom they come! Better for him that he would put a millstone around the neck of atafona, and he cast into the sea. (Luke 17:1 and 17:2.)

3. Passing once through the middle of Galilee, Jesus healed ten lepers in one village. Of those, how many returned to thank and glorify God and what is your nationality?  

Only one returned, glorifying God with a loud voice. It was a Samaritan. That led Jesus to say: Were not ten cleansed? And where are the nine? There were those who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner? He then told the Samaritan, Arise, and go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole. (Luke 17:11 to 17:19.) 

4. How, according to Jesus, will present the kingdom of God on earth?  

Asked by the Pharisees on the subject, Jesus said to them: The kingdom of God cometh not with outward show, and you never will, Lo here or lo there, for the kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17:20 to 17:24.) 

5. What's in the parable of the judge and the widow and what is its significance? 

There was a city a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man. There was also that same city, a widow who came to him saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. For some time the judge would not answer it, but then he said himself: Although I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow bothers me, I'll do it justice, so I fail to return to annoy me. Then said the Master: Hear what the unjust judge, and conclude that God will avenge those who cry to him day and night, albeit belatedly. The parable shows that God never fails to hear their children and that there is divine providence and works effectively for the benefit of all creatures. (Luke 18:1 to 18:7.)