How Jesus taught

Did Jesus bring a unique approach, or did he build on what came earlier?

Yeshua (Jesus) is rightly revered as a great teacher, but was His approach entirely new or actually in line with the teaching methods employed in His own Bible ( Tanach or “Old Testament”) ? This article argues that as Yeshua was both Jewish Messiah and the Word of God we should expect to see continuity and consistency throughout Scripture.

The ultimate achievement in teaching is to produce pupils who resemble their teacher. The evidence of Yeshua’s teaching gift is how His first followers “turned the world upside down”. Some teaching principles are universal, so before we investigate the specifics of Yeshua’s approach, it would be helpful to describe these briefly.

According to Benjamin Franklin, “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” This neatly encapsulates the concept of moving from words to action and is illustrated below by typical teaching methods used to achieve this: