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Matthew 25 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Ready, Faithful and Kind

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.

PreschoolReady With Our Lamps

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

KindergartenWell Done

LAMP → picture 3COIN → picture 1FOOD → picture 4CUP → picture 2

Grade 1Faithful Servants

Keep your lamp ready. → picture 4Use what God gives you. → picture 5Feed the hungry. → picture 1Give a drink to the thirsty. → picture 2Welcome a stranger. → picture 3

Order:

1. Keep your lamp ready.2. Use what God gives you.3. Feed the hungry.4. Give a drink to the thirsty.5. Welcome a stranger.

Grade 2Kindness to Jesus

  1. Who is the King in the story? Jesus (circle)
  2. What did the people give the King when He was hungry? Food (circle)
  3. What did they give Him when He was thirsty? Drink (circle)
  4. What did they do when He was sick? They visited Him. (circle)
  5. When we are kind to people in need, who are we being kind to? Jesus (circle)
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Grade 3Well Done, Good Servant

  1. Why were five young women wise? They brought extra oil and were ready.
  2. When did the bridegroom come? At midnight
  3. What did the master say to the faithful servants? Well done, good and faithful servant.
  4. What did the third servant do with his talent? He hid it in the ground.
  5. When we help someone in need, who are we helping? Jesus (the King)
1: Keep your lamp ready.2: Use what God gives you.3: Feed the hungry.4: Give a drink to the thirsty.5: Welcome a stranger.

Grade 4Three Stories of Readiness

  1. What made the five wise virgins ready? They brought extra oil for their lamps.
  2. How did the first two servants use their talents? They invested them and doubled what they were given.
  3. Why was the master displeased with the third servant? He was afraid and buried his talent, doing nothing with it.
  4. According to the King, when did people serve Him? When they helped the least of His brothers who were hungry, thirsty, strangers, sick or in prison.

Word bank: 1. oil; 2. midnight; 3. talents; 4. God

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

Grade 5The Sheep and the Goats

  1. What does the request to borrow oil teach about readiness? Readiness cannot be borrowed; each person must be personally prepared to meet the Lord.
  2. About how much was a talent worth? About twenty years' wages, a huge sum
  3. What was the root problem of the unfaithful servant? A wrong view of his master; fear led him to do nothing.
  4. How do works of mercy relate to the righteous in the judgment scene? They do not earn salvation; they reveal that the righteous belong to the King.
  5. Why does serving the least of these count as serving Jesus? Jesus identifies so closely with His needy brothers and sisters that serving them is serving Him.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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