Mark 1 Worksheet- 5 W's and H

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Who What When Where Why How?

Answers found in the Scripture (NIV)

1a. What is Mark’s introduction?

 

1b. Who is Jesus Christ?

2. What was written by the Prophet Isaiah?

 

3. What will the messenger proclaim?

4a. Who was the messenger?

4b. What did he preach?

 

5a. Who came to him?

 

5b. What did they do?

6a. How did John dress?

6b. What did John eat?

7. What did John tell people?

8a. What did John baptize with?

8b. What will the greater one baptize with?

 

1a. The beginning of the gospel about

      Jesus Christ

1b. the Son of God.

2 "I will send my messenger…who will

    prepare your way"

3 'Prepare the way for the Lord,
      make straight paths for him.' "

4a.  John (the Baptist)

4b. baptism of repentance for the forgiveness

      of sins.

5a. the whole Judean countryside and

      all the people of Jerusalem

5b. confessed their sins, were baptized

6a.  clothing made of camel's hair, leather belt

6b. locusts and wild honey

7. "After me will come one more powerful”

8a. with water

8b. the Holy Spirit

 

9a. Who came to John from Nazareth?

9b. What did He do

10. What two things did John see when Jesus

      came up out of the water?

11a. What did John hear?

11b. What did the voice say?

 

 

9a. Jesus

9b. was baptized by John in the Jordan

10. heaven being torn open,

      the Spirit descending on Jesus like a dove

11a. And a voice came from heaven

11b. "You are my Son, whom I love;

        with you I am well pleased."

12a. Where did He go next? 

12b. Who sent Him there?

13a. How long was He in the desert?

13b. Who tempted Him?

13c. Who was with Him?

13d. Who attended Him?

12a. into the desert,

12b. the Spirit

13a. forty days

13b. by Satan

13c. the wild animals

13d. angels attended Him.

 

14a. Where did Jesus go after John the Baptist

        was imprisoned?

14b. What did He proclaim?

15. What were Jesus’ first words recorded in

      this gospel?

14a. into Galilee

 

14b. the good news of God

15"The time has come,"

   "The kingdom of God is near.

     Repent and believe the good news!"

 

16a. Where was Jesus walking?

16b. Who did He see?

16c. What were they doing?

17. What did Jesus say to them?

 

18. How did they respond?

 

19. Who did Jesus see next?

20a. What did Jesus do?

20b. How did they respond?

 

16a. beside the Sea of Galilee

16b. Simon and his brother Andrew

16c. casting a net into the lake

17. “Come, follow me," 

     "and I will make you fishers of men."

18. they left their nets and followed him.

 

19. James son of Zebedee and his brother John

20. they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

21. Where did Jesus go next?

21b. What did Jesus do on the Sabbath?

 

22. How did people respond?

22b. Why?

 

21a. to the city of Capernaum

21b. went into the synagogue and began to

       teach.

22a. The people were amazed at his teaching

22b. because He taught them as one who had

        authority, not as the teachers of the law.

 

23. Who cried out to Jesus?

24a. How is Jesus referred to first?

24b. How was Jesus referred to the secondly?

 

25. What did Jesus command?

26. How did the evil spirit respond?

 

23. a man possessed by an evil spirit

24a. Jesus of Nazareth

24b. I know who you are—

       the Holy One of God!

25"Be quiet!" "Come out of him!"

26. came out of him

27a. How did the people respond?

27b. Why were they amazed?

 

 

28. What happened next?

 

27a. The people were all so amazed

27b. A new teaching—and with authority! He

        even gives orders to evil spirits and they

       obey him."

28.  News about him spread quickly over the

       whole region of Galilee.

 

29. Where did they go after they left the synagogue?

30a. Who was sick?

30b. What was wrong with her?

31a. What did Jesus do?

31b. What happened to her?

31c. What was she able to do?

 

29. to the home of Simon and Andrew

 

30a. Simon's mother-in-law

30b. in bed with a fever

31a. Jesus went to her, took her hand and

        helped her up

31b. fever left her

31c. she began to wait on them.

 

32. Who came to see Jesus?

33. Who gathered at the door?

34a. Who did Jesus heal?

34b. What else did Jesus do?

34c. Why did He not let the demons speak?

32. the sick and demon-possessed.

33. the whole town gathered

34a. many who had various diseases

34b. many demons

34c. because they knew who He was

 

35a. When did Jesus get up?

35b. Where did he go?

35c. What did He did do there?  

36. Who came looking for Him?

38a. Where did Jesus want to go?

38b. Why?

39. What did Jesus do throughout Galilee?

 

35a. very early in the morning

35b. off to a solitary place

35c. he prayed.

36.  Simon and his companions

38a. to the nearby villages

38b. so I can preach there also

39.  preaching and driving out demons.

 

 

40a. Who came to Him?

40b. What did the man do?

40c. What did he say to Jesus?

 

41a How did Jesus respond?

41b. What did Jesus do?

41c. What did Jesus say to the man?

42. What happened?

 

44a. Who did Jesus tell the man to do?  

44b. What was the man supposed to do?

 

44c. Why was he to do these things?

45a. Did the man do what Jesus told him to do?

45b. What did he do instead?

 

45c. What was the result?   

 

 

 

   

40a. man with leprosy

40b.begged Him on his knees

40c. "If you are willing, you can make me

        clean."

41a. with compassion

41b. reached out and touched the man

41c. "I am willing,"  "Be clean!"

42. Immediately the leprosy left him and he

      was cured

44a show yourself to the priest

44b. offer the sacrifices that Moses

        commanded for your cleansing

44c. as a testimony to the priests.

45a. No

45b. went out and began to talk freely,

        spreading the news

45c. Jesus could no longer enter a town openly

        so He stayed outside…Yet people still

        came to Him from everywhere.

For thought…

Who is Jesus?

Were people attracted to Jesus?

Why or why not?