Luke 17-21

What made one of the ten lepers different?

He was a Samaritan. He was an outcast hardly worth healing. Oh and one more thing that made him different.... He came back to say, "thank you!"

Who was it that went home from the temple justified? Why?

The tax collector went home justified because he humbled himself before the Lord. Now he was still a tax collector and I am assuming still cheating people in order to make money for himself. Yet his humility and recognition of his sinfulness is what justified him before God.

What did Zacchaeus offer to do when Jesus came to his house? How did Jesus respond?

Zacchaeus offered to give half of his possessions to the poor and to return four times as much as he took wrongly from others. Jesus promptly announced that salvation had come to Zacchaeus.

Even if Jesus ordered his disciple to stop praising him what would cry out in praise?

Jesus said if his disciples were forced to be quiet the stones would cry out in praise.

To what event does the parable of the vineyard point?

The parable of the Vineyard points to the coming rejection, arrest, crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of the Jews who rejected him.

What do the Sadducees not believe?

The Sadducees do not believe in the Resurrection. That is why they are "Sad u See"

Jesus told the parable of the fig tree as a way of knowing what was near?

Jesus told the parable of the fig tree as a way of knowing whne the Kingdom of God would be near.