How DID He Train Them? (Cont'd.)

2. He trained and taught them as he worked and did miracles.

• The storms on the Sea of Galilee
  (Matthew 8:23-27; 14:22-33).
• Withering of the fig tree (Matthew 21:17-22).

3. He taught them in parables, not just in a class setting but as he walked through the fields and other places.

• The Sower and the Seed (Matthew 13).
• Viewing the sunset (Matthew 16:1-5).

4. He used various events to teach important things.

• Meeting the woman at the well of Samaria (John 4).
• His transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-13).
• At the foot of the mountain, coming down from the transfiguration - where the disciples were unable to cast out the demon (Matthew 17:14-21).
• The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7).
• The raising of Lazarus from the dead (John 11).
• The triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1 -11).
• The cleansing of the temple (Matthew 21:12-16).
• His last Passover Supper with His disciples (John 13-17).
• His praying and His arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-56).
• His trial before the Sanhedren and before Pilate (Matthew 26:57 - 27:23).
• His crucifixion (Matthew 27:26-54).
• His meetings with them after His resurrection (John 20, 21; Acts 1).

5. Jesus taught them when John's disciples and His own disciples asked questions.

1. "Why do we (the disciples of John) fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?" (Matthew 9:14).
2. "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" (Matthew 11:3).
3. "Declare unto us the parable" (Matthew 13:36).
4. "Knowest thou that THE Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?" (Matthew 15:12).
5. "Is it because we have taken no bread?" (Matthew 16:7).
6. "Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?" (Matthew 17:10).
7. "Why could not we cast him out?" (Matthew 17:19).
8. "Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times" (Matthew 18:21).
9. "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" (Matthew 17:27).
10. "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?" (Matthew 17:3).
11. "Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?" (Matthew 19:7).
12. "Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" (Matthew 24:3).
13. "Where wilt thou that we prepare the passover?" (Matthew 26:17).
14. "Master, is it I?" (Matthew 26:25). "Lord, who is it?" (John 13:25).
15. "Hath any man brought him ought to eat?" (John 4:33).
16. "Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?" (John 6:5).
17. "Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" (John 9:2).
18. "Whither goest thou?" (John 13:36).
19. "Lord, why can I not follow thee now?" (John 13:37).
20. "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?"
21. "Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" (John 14:22).
22. "What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and Because I go to the Father?"
23. "Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?" (John 21:20).
24. "Lord, what shall this man do?" (John 21:21).