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Mark 12 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Love God With All Your Heart

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolThe Widow's Gift

WomanCoinTempleJesusflower

Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenLove God

COIN → picture 2HEART → picture 1TEMPLE → picture 4WOMAN → picture 3

Grade 1Give With Love

Love God with all your heart. → picture 3Love your neighbor. → picture 1Give to God what is God's. → picture 2A widow gave two coins. → picture 5Jesus watched at the temple. → picture 4

Order:

1. Give to God what is God's.2. Love God with all your heart.3. Love your neighbor.4. Jesus watched at the temple.5. A widow gave two coins.

Grade 2Two Little Coins

  1. Where did Jesus sit? Near where people gave money at the temple
  2. Who put in a lot of money? Many rich people (circle)
  3. How many coins did the widow put in? Two small coins (circle)
  4. Who did Jesus say gave more? The poor widow (circle)
  5. Why did she give more? She gave all that she had to live on.
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Grade 3The Greatest Commandment

  1. What did leaders ask Jesus to trap Him? If they should pay taxes to Caesar
  2. What did Jesus say to give to God? The things that are God's
  3. What is the greatest commandment? Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.
  4. What is the second commandment? You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
  5. Why did the widow give more than the rich people? She gave all she had to live on.
1: Give to God what is God's.2: Love God with all your heart.3: Love your neighbor.4: Jesus watched at the temple.5: A widow gave two coins.

Grade 4All Your Heart

  1. Whom does the beloved son in the parable represent? Jesus, God's Son, rejected by the leaders
  2. What did Jesus tell the Sadducees they did not know? The Scriptures or the power of God
  3. What confession did Jesus quote before the greatest commandment? Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one
  4. Why did the widow's gift matter more to Jesus than the rich people's gifts? She gave all she had to live on, out of her poverty.

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Not Far From the Kingdom

  1. How does the parable of the tenants retell Israel's history? God sent prophet after prophet, who were rejected, and finally His beloved Son.
  2. How did Jesus' tax answer go deeper than politics? It affirmed government but declared God's greater claim: God's image is on us, so we belong to Him.
  3. How did Jesus root the resurrection in God's covenant? God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the living.
  4. What is the Shema? Israel's confession, Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, with the command to love God completely
  5. How does the widow's gift foreshadow Jesus? Her total self-giving pictures the total self-giving Jesus would soon display on the cross.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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