We continue this issue to the Systematic Study of the New Testament, which includes the study of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the book of Acts. The study is based on the Portuguese version of the New Testament that the reader can see from this link: http://www.bibliaonline.com.br/asv/mc/1. 

Relevant answers to questions are at the end of the text below. 

Questions 

1. What does the parable of the rich fool and what it teaches us?

2. What is the meaning of these words spoken by Jesus: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added"?

3. Why did Jesus say that he had not come to bring peace on earth, but division?

4. What message would convey the Master with the parable of the fig tree?

5. Seeing that Jesus healed up on Saturday that the prince of the synagogue words addressed the crowd assembled there?  

Text for reading

31. The lamp of the body is the eye - With respect to signal that she was asked, Jesus told the crowd: "This is an evil generation: they seek a sign and you will not be given another signal, but the sign of Jonah, because, well as Jonah became a sign to Nineveh, so the Son of man be to this generation." Claiming to be greater than Solomon and Jonah, the Master reminded everyone that no one lights a lamp, puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. "The lamp of the body is the eye. Since, therefore, thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light, but it is evil, thy body also is dark. Therefore sees the light in you is not darkness. If therefore thy whole body is light, having no part dark, it will be all light, as when the lamp illumines you with its brightness. "(Luke 11:29 to 11:36.) 

32. Jesus also rebukes the lawyers - Home of the Pharisee who had invited him to dinner, Jesus continued by warning both the scribes and Pharisees, when a lawyer told him: "Master, thus saying thou reproach us also." The Lord answered him, saying, "Woe unto you also, lawyers, and that load men with burdens hard to carry, and you yourselves will not even with one of your fingers touch these weights. Woe to you who build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed them. Witnesses and therefore allow the deeds of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs. Therefore also said the wisdom of God: I will send them prophets and apostles, and they shall kill and persecute, so that this generation is required the blood of all the prophets since the world began, has been shed from the blood Abel unto the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple, so I tell you, this generation will be required. Woes unto you, lawyers have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in, and hindered those who entered. " After hearing this, the scribes and the Pharisees began to squeeze it tightly, making him speak of many things, setting her snares, to catch up to his mouth something to accuse him. (Luke 11:42 to 11:54.) 

33. There is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed - Recommending to his disciples caution with respect to the doctrine preached by the Pharisees, Jesus asserted that there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor secret that shall not be known. "Because - he said - all have spoken in darkness, the light will be heard and spoken to the ear in closets shall be proclaimed from the housetops. And I say to you, my friends: Do not fear those who kill the body and then have no more to do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who, after killing, has power to cast into hell: yea, I say unto you, Fear him. Not five sparrows sold for two concepts? And none of them is forgotten before God. Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. And I say unto you, whosoever shall confess me before men the Son of man also confess before the angels of God. But whoever denies me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of man you will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. And when they bring you to synagogues and to magistrates and powers, take no thought how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say. Because at the same time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you ought to say. "(Luke 12:2 to 12:12.) 

34. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God," said Jesus - After telling the parable of the rich fool, Jesus told his disciples: "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, neither for the body, what you will wear. The life is more than food and the body more than the dress. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap nor has neither waiver nor barn, and God feeds them: how much more value are you than birds? And which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Because if you cannot even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin: And I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of them. And if God so clothe the grass which is in the field and tomorrow is cast into the oven, the more you, O ye of little faith? Do not ask, then, that you will eat or what ye shall drink, and walk not worried. Because the nations of the world seek these things, but your Father knows that ye mister them." "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added." (Luke 12:22 to 12:31.)

Answers to questions

1. What does the parable of the rich fool and what it teaches us?  

The parable was thus expressed: The estate of a rich man brought forth abundantly. He thought within himself, saying, what shall I do? I have nowhere to bestow my fruits. And said that I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my fruits and my goods, done that, I will tell my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods for many years, rest, eat , drinks and off. But God said to him, Fool! Tonight you ask your soul, and thou hast prepared, whose will? So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. The parable warns us to the transience of corporeal existence and makes clear that we own assets that may not be used solely for our personal enjoyment, but also the progress of the community in which we live. (Luke 12:16 to 12:21.) 

2. What is the meaning of these words spoken by Jesus: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added"?  

The words quoted were spoken by Jesus following this exhortation: "Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin, and I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of them. And if God so clothe the grass which is in the field and tomorrow is cast into the oven, the more you, O ye of little faith? Do not ask, then, that you will eat or what ye shall drink, and walk not worried. Because the nations of the world seek these things, but your Father knows that you need them. "Seek first the kingdom of God means to seize the opportunity and we are having, in the sense of our intellectual and moral improvement and implementation of the part that we must the work of creation, which are the two key objectives of our presence in the world. If we act thus, of course God will give us the resources we need. (Luke 12:27 to 12:31.)

3. Why did Jesus say that he had not come to bring peace on earth, but division?  

With this sentence, Jesus foresaw the struggles, the wars and persecutions that the establishment of God's Kingdom would face over the centuries in our world, because everyone knows that if the victims in the millions produced by the religious wars that have occurred on our planet. (Luke 12:49 to 12:53.) 

4. What message would convey the Master with the parable of the fig tree? 

The way Luke has recorded, this parable is easy to understand. Here is what she says: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and was sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then he said to the vineyard, Behold these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it off, why still occupies the ground? Responding to him, the man said, Lord, let it alone this year, until I dig and dung it: if it bear fruit, and will, if not, after that thou shalt cut. The parable shows us that good tree that bears good fruit, will be preserved; a bad tree which produces nothing, it will be cut. Applying this principle to human beings, we understand that we must be as good tree which produces, if we want to enjoy new opportunities in the world in which we live. The era of regeneration is approaching and with it come the time of selection, so that those who cannot stay here will inevitably be excluded and, of course, sent to the lower worlds to ours. (Luke 13:6 to 13:9.)

5. Seeing that Jesus healed up on Saturday that the prince of the synagogue words addressed the crowd assembled there?  

Jesus healed a woman there who for eighteen years was bowed together and could in no wise lift up herself. Jesus called her to him and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands upon it and the woman immediately stood up straight and glorified God. It was there that, taking that word, angry, the ruler of the synagogue told the crowd: "Six days ago in what is needful work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day." (Luke 13:10 to 13:16.)