Women in the crowd - 30 Minute Bible Study

Homework 1: Read Mark 1:4-11

1. What phrases in verse 5 allow us to presume that there were women, and probably children, in the crowd?

2. From where did the men, women and children in the crowd come?

3. What are some indications as to why the great crowds came to the wilderness?

4. Read through all the verses and make a list of all the things the women in that crowd would have seen. For example, in v. 4, they saw the dry, barren wilderness.

5. Read through the verses again and list what the women heard.

6. Consider what any or all of the following might have to do with the women’s interest in John the Baptist, his message, and the events in the wilderness: Curiosity, Hope, Fun, and Spiritual Hunger.

7. What did they learn about God? About Jesus?

8. Think about what you can learn from these verses.1) Read Mark 1:21-28

1. Where were the crowds?
In this place, the women and children were divided from the men, and in some cases, they could not even see one another, although they may have been able to see what was going on in the center of things.

2. What did the women in the crowd see?

3. Even if the women could not see, what did they hear?

4. What were the various responses to what they saw and heard? Did any of these responses particularly reflect feminine traits?

5. What did they learn about God? About Jesus?

Homework 2: Read Mark 2:1-13

1. Where were the men, women and children gathered? Why might that be significant?

2. What did the women see?

3. What did the women hear?

4. What were the various responses of the crowd (and of course, the women)?

5. What did they learn about God? About Jesus?

Homework 3: Read Luke 7:11-17

1. There are two crowds. Who were in each crowd? Why were they there?

2. What did the women in the crowds see?

3. What did the women in the crowds hear?

4. What were the responses of the people?

5. What could they all have learned about God? About Jesus? About themselves?

6. What do we learn about crowds and individuals?

Homework 4: Read Mark 6:30-44

1. What were Jesus and The Twelve trying to do?

2. Where did the crowds come from? How did they find Him?

3. What did the women in the crowds see?

4. What did the women in the crowds hear?

5. According to verse 44, how many men ate? Assuming there were also women and children in the crowd, what might have been the total number of people?

6. With women in the crowd, what is the significance of the fact that no one, except one little boy, had brought lunch?

7. What were they learning about God? About Jesus? About themselves?
5) Read Mark 10:13-16.

1. Name the people who were in this group of people.

2. What part did each play in the story?

3. What did the women see?

4. What did the women hear?

5. What were they learning about God? About Jesus? About themselves?

Women in Jesus’ Crowds – Homework 2

Background Information: Jesus appointed his 12 disciples in Mark 3:13-19, yet the author, Mark, mentions Jesus’ disciples in 2:15. Many verses in the gospels indicate there were other disciples besides The Twelve (Luke 10:1; 10:32; John 6:66; 19:38).

1. According to Mark 2:15, what were the “many” disciples doing in general? What does that mean?

2. Read Luke 8:1-3. Who were the women?

3. Why were the women there?

4. What role did they play?

5. Considering that men’s and women’s lives were very separate in those days, how could these specific women, following Jesus, have supported His ministry in more than financial ways?

Women in Jesus’ Crowds – Homework 3

Read Luke 11:53-54 and 12:1-12.

1. What were the circumstances? What kind of crowd had gathered?

2. To whom was Jesus speaking, even though the crowds were listening?

3. List some of the main points of Jesus’ teaching.

4. Why would some of these points have resonated with the women in the crowd?

5. What were they learning about God? About Jesus? About themselves?

6. Read Mark 8:34-38
1. What is required to follow Jesus?

2. What did the people (women) think of back then when someone mentioned a
cross?

3. What are the answers to the questions in verses 36-37?

4. There seem to be only two positions on Jesus. What are they?

5. What are the consequences of each position?

6. If you had been a woman in that crowd, how would you have responded?

7. Read Luke 15:1-10
1. What is the irony in verses 1-2?

2. What is the point of each of Jesus’ stories?

3. Why would this have been important to the women in the crowd?

4. Why could this be important to us?

8. Read Matthew 11:7, 25-30.
1. What does Jesus talk to God about?

2. Who are “the wise” and who are the “infants?”

3. Who can know God? Who can’t know God?

4. What sort of burdens do women carry?

5. Thinking about a yoke: why might Jesus’s yoke be light?

6. What are the requirements to allow a person to carry Jesus’s yoke?

7. Why might this have been attractive to women during Jesus’ time? Why would
it still be attractive today?

Homework 4 – Women in the Crowds

Read Matthew 21:1-11.

1. Comparing Luke 19:37, who made up the crowd?

2. What did the women in the crowd or the bystanders see?

3. What did the women in the crowd or the bystanders hear?

4. What did they know about God? About Jesus?

5. Consider that this event occurred one week before Jesus’ resurrection. What thoughts do you have about these followers?

9) Read Luke 23:26-35 and 23:46-49.
1. Where were the crowds? What was the general attitude of the crowds?

2. Where were a few women and disciples? Why do you think they were there?

3. What did the few followers of Jesus see?

4. What did the few followers of Jesus hear?

5. What were the various reactions of the onlookers?10) Read Mark 15:47-16:8. The Gospel of Mark was probably the first gospel written.

1. Who were the women? Where was the crowd?

2. What was their purpose in going to the tomb?

3. What did the women see?

4. What did they hear?

5. What was their response?

6. What did they learn?

11) Read Matthew 28:1-10. The Gospel of Matthew was probably the second gospel written.
1. Who were the women? Where was the crowd?

2. What was their purpose in going to the tomb?

3. What did the women see?

4. What did they hear?

5. What was their response?

6. What did they learn?

12) Read Luke 23:55-24:11. The Gospel of Luke was probably the third gospel written.

1. Who were the women? Where was the crowd?

2. What was their purpose in going to the tomb?

3. What did the women see?

4. What did they hear?

5. What was their response?

6. What did they learn?

13) Read John 20:1-2; 10-18. John’s Gospel was probably written last of the four.

1. Who were the women? Where was the crowd?

2. What was their purpose in going to the tomb?

3. What did the women see?

4. What did they hear?

5. What was their response?

6. What did they learn?

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