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Jesus Christ: Source of Our Salvation

Directed Reading Guide Answer Key

Chapter 3The Coming of the Messiah

  1. True. (p. 56)
  1. Son of God; Salvation; Old Testament; promises; descendants (p. 56)
  1. The Resurrection confirms all of Jesus’ works and teachings and proves his divinity. (p. 56)
  1. Gospels; knowledge; heart; eyewitnesses; Jesus; Lord (p. 58)
  1. False. Each of the four Gospels begins the story of Jesus in a different way. (p. 58)
  1. bridges; Old Testament; baptism; voice; well pleased (p. 58)
  1. The prologue in John’s Gospel teaches that the Word of God is God and that “all things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.” (p. 58)
  1. False. The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke both begin their Gospels with infancy narratives, yet there are differences between the two. (p. 58)
  1. True. (p. 59)
  1. Jewish-Christian; God’s promise; Abraham; Jewish hopes (p. 59)
  1. By including sinners in the genealogy, Matthew is making the point of the marvelous way that God accomplishes his plan of Salvation. (p. 59)
  1. divine action; Holy Spirit; Isaiah; virgin; Emmanuel; God (p. 60)
  1. David; message; own son; Jesus; God saves (p. 60)
  1. Like the Old Testament patriarch Joseph, St. Joseph receives God’s revelation about Jesus’ origins in a dream and saves his family by taking them to Egypt. (p. 60)
  1. True. (p. 60)
  1. Moses; liberator; New; Sermon; infant; future (pp. 60-61)
  1. Herod’s slaughter and the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt reveal that from the beginning of Jesus’ life, the forces of darkness were opposed to him—the “light of the world.” (p. 61)
  1. Nazareth; Jews; Gentile influence; God’s kingdom (p. 61)
  1. historian; Acts of the Apostles; others; eyewitnesses; orderly (p. 61)
  1. False. Like Matthew’ Gospel, one of Luke’s sources was the Gospel of Mark, a common source of sayings called “Q” and a source unique to him, often designated “L”. (p. 61)
  1. True. (p. 61)
  1. Old Testament; New Testament; New Elijah; Messiah; forerunner of Christ (p. 62)
  1. yes; fulfillment; instrument; world; salvific (p. 62)
  1. Mary was conceived without Original Sin by virtue of the merits of her son, Jesus Christ. (p. 62)
  1. True. (p. 63)
  1. John the Baptist (p. 63)
  1. False. The expression “first-born son” is a legal designation for a child who had special rights under the Law of Moses. It does not mean that Mary had other children. (p. 63)
  1. theme; lowly and outcast; shepherds; fishermen; Good News (p. 63)
  1. circumcision; Jewish people; Law; faith; Baptism; Christians (p. 64)
  1. obedience; disobedience; prefigured; scribes; death (pp. 64-65)
  1. Temple and Jerusalem; journey; Passion; Salvation (p. 65)
  1. world; creation; Word; truth; man; Jesus Christ (p. 65)
  1. True. (pp. 65-66)
  1. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” (Jn 3:16) (p. 66)
  1. (a) “To save us by reconciling us with God, ‘who loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins’”; (b) “So . . . we might know God’s love”; (c) “To be our model of holiness”; (d) To make us “partakers of the divine nature” (pp. 66-67)
  1. Woman; Protoevangelium; offspring; Eve; destroy; devil (p. 67)

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