6:12-19 The situation described here might remind us of when Moses gathered the Israelites at Mt Sinai to receive the law from God. What things might be similar and what might be different?
6:20-26 How might you summarise Jesus’ teaching in these verses? How do Jesus’ ideas of happiness and sadness compare with your own?
6:27-36 What do you think about Jesus’ commands here? What does it teach us about God?
6:37-38 What might these verses tell us about the way other people will treat us? What might they tell us about how God will treat us?
6:39-45 How might these verses particularly apply to such as the Pharisees? How could they apply to anybody?
6:46-49 What is Jesus emphasising here and why?
What do you think about Jesus’ teaching in this chapter? (How does it compare to the way you normally think about things?)