Who Done It?

This method of Bible study ignores what is said. Instead, one asks a series of questions about the circumstances of the communication.

• Who is speaking?
• Who are they speaking to?
• Who are they speaking about?
  
  

• Who is present?
• Who is not present, but whose presence would be expected?
• Who is present, whose presence is unexpected?
  
  

• What type of building are they speaking in?
• What hamlet, village, city are they speaking in?
• What country are they speaking in?
  
  

• What time of day are they speaking?
• What time of the week are they speaking?
• What time of the month are they speaking?
• What time of the year are they speaking?
  
  
• When are they speaking?

• Who is the primary audience of this passage?
• Who is the secondary audience of this passage?