Respond to the following with your reflections about the passages indicated. Your response is to be two full type pages, professionally done. Work from the Biblical text (not with outside sources, except Harris).

1. What happens when Jesus goes up the high mountain? Why does Jesus order his disciples not to tell anyone about this event?

2. Why did the man who asked the question in v. 17 go away grieving?

3. Why did Jesus respond so aggressively against the buyers and sellers in the temple?

4. What is the meaning of the parable of the vineyard?

5. What is the special character of the meal that Jesus had with his disciples on the night before he died?

6. How would you describe the character of Pilate? How did the Roman centurion respond to the death of Jesus?

7. What were the women at the tomb asked to do and how did they respond (vv. 58-8)? How do you explain this response?