Verses 1-5

• Who is involved in verses 1-5?
• Who holds the book or scroll?
• How is the scroll sealed?
• What is happening in these 5 verses?
• Who answered the angel’s question?
• Why did John weep?
• What do you think is in the book?
• In your life, do you seek guidance about things that are hidden to you? According to these verses – who is the only one in heaven, on, or under the earth to help you?
• According to the elder, what has the Lion of the tribe of Judah done so that he has the power to open the book?

• What about Jesus allows him to be the only one to open the book?
• Read Mat_20:28, Mat_26:28; Act_20:28; Rom_3:24-26; 1Co_6:20, 1Co_7:23; Eph_1:7; Col_1:14; Tit_2:14; Heb_11:14; 1Pe_1:18, 1Pe_1:19; 2Pe_2:1; 1Jo_1:7, 1Jo_2:2

Verses 6-10

• Where was the lamb standing?
• How did the lamb appear?
• What does this image, a lamb appearing as slain standing in the midst of the throne of God and his elders?
• If 7 means perfect, what does 7 horns, 7 eyes, and 7 spirits indicate to you?
• Discuss the imagery of Jesus taking the book out of the right hand of God?
• What happened when Jesus took the book from God?
• How are the prayers of the saints described in verse 8?
• What made Jesus worthy to open the book in verse 9?
• According to verse 9, who did Jesus blood purchase? Only believers? Only Jews?
• What did Jesus sacrifice make every tribe, tongue, people, and nation? Only believers?

Verses 11-14

• Who and how many proclaimed Jesus\’ worthiness? Was there any dispute?
• Who said “To the one who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise, honor, glory, and power forever and ever!”
• Who heard him say it?
• What does this mean to you?
• What was the last act of the elders and of the creatures?

New Testament Words for Redemption (Reference from Rev 5:9)
Greek Words	English Meanings	References
agorazo(verb)	To buy, to purchase in the market (or slave market)	(1Co_6:20; 1Co_7:23; 2Pe_2:1; Rev_5:9; Rev_14:3-4)
exagorazo(verb)	To buy out, to purchase out of the market (or slave market)	(Gal_3:13; Gal_4:5; Eph_5:16; Col_4:5)
lytron (noun)	Ransom, price of release	(Mat_20:28; Mar_10:45)
lytroomai (verb)	To ransom, to free by paying a ransom price	(Luk_24:21; Tit_2:14; 1Pe_1:18)
lytrosis(noun)	Act of freeing by paying a ransom price	(Luk_1:68; Luk_2:38; Heb_9:12)
apolytrosis(noun)	A buying back, a setting free by paying a ransom price	(Luk_21:28; Rom_3:24; Rom_8:23; 1Co_1:30; Eph_1:7, Eph_1:14; Eph_4:30; Col_1:14; Heb_9:15; Heb_11:35)

Source: Bible Knowledge Commentary for Mark 10:45

REFERENCES

Purchased – Bought:

• Mat 20:28  just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
• Act 20:28  “Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
• Rom 3:21  But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
• Rom 3:22-26  even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;(23)  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (24)  being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; (25)  whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; (26)  for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
• 1Co 6:20  For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
• 1Co 7:23  You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
• Eph 1:7  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
• Tit 2:14  who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
• 1Pe 1:18  knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,
• 1Pe 1:19  but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
• 2Pe 2:1  But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
• 1Jo 2:2  and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
• Propitiation – from The Complete Word Study Dictionary: In the NT, we find man incapable of offering anything to placate God because He is a righteous God. For Him to accept sinful man, it was necessary for God, not man, to do something to deliver man from his sin. This is the reason why, in 1Jo_2:1, we find Jesus Christ presented as the righteous One. God demands that the payment for sin be made once and for all. It is Christ Himself, therefore, who becomes hilasmós, the means which is acceptable to God to satisfy His righteousness or His justice. This does not merely appease God but provides the means for the redemption of man. Christ is the propitiation which supplies the method of deliverance from our sin and, being reconciled to God, we are acceptable for fellowship with God.