Gospels--People and Places

1.Question: What happened to both John the Baptist and Jesus at the age of eight days?

2. Who had been the most famous resident of Bethlehem, so much so that Bethlehem was known as his city?

3. Multiple choice: To whom had the Holy  Spirit revealed that he should not die before he had seen
the Lord's Christ?  (a) John the Baptist; (b) Simeon; or (c) Herod.

1. They were circumcised (Luke 1:59; 2:21).

 

 

2. David (Luke 2:4)

 

 

3. (b) Simeon (Luke 2:25, 26).

Gospels--People and Places

1. Multiple choice: What would be true of John the Baptist from his mother's womb? (a) He would wear camel's hair; (b) he would be filled with the Holy Spirit; or (c) he would never speak to women.

2. Luke identified the angel who announced the birth of Jesus to  various people. Who was he? (a) Gabriel; (b) Michael; or (c) Raphael.

3. The family of John the Baptist lived in the hill country of which tribal area? (a) Judah; (b) Levi; or (c) Simeon.

1. (b) He  would be filled with the Holy Spirit (Luke 1: 15).

 

 

2. (a) Gabriel  (Luke 1:19, 26). In the Old Testament, Gabriel appeared in Daniel as the angel who interpreted  Daniel's vision and revealed the prophecy of seventy weeks (Dan. 8:16-27;

9: 21-27).

 

 

3. (a) Judah (Luke 1:39).

Gospel--People and Places

1. Multiple choice: Who feared John the Baptist because he was a just and holy man? (a) The Pharisees; (b) Herod the tetrarch; or (c) the Roman soldiers.

2. The Pharisees were separatists who rejected contacts  with the  Roman occupiers. The Herodians were collaborators  with the Romans. What cause, recorded in the Gospels, united the Pharisees and Herodians? (a) Building the temple; (b) hatred of Herod;  or (c) a plot to destroy Jesus.

3. What was the connection between Mary  the mother of Jesus and Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist ? (a) next door neighbors; (b) the same age; or (c) blood relatives.

1.(b) Herod the tetrarch (Mark 6:20). John the Baptist had preached against Herod for marrying the wife of Herod's  brother Philip. Herod arrested John  to silence him, but he wanted to protect John because he respected and feared  him (vv. 17, 18).

 

 

2. (c) A plot to destroy Jesus (Mark12:12,13).Both felt their plans threatened by the spiritual kingdom of Jesus.

 

 

3. (c) Blood relatives (Luke 1:36).

Gospel--People and Places

1. True or false? In the parable of the sower, the birds which ate the seed that fell by the wayside represented the Pharisees.

2. Multiple choice: Who  was named  Legion? (a) The centurion at the cross; (b) the group of demons who went into the swine; or (c) a half brother of Jesus.

3. Who was the synagogue ruler whose daughter was raised by Jesus? (a) Nicodemus; (b) Zacharias; or (c) Jairus.

1. False. The birds represented Satan (Mark 4:4,15).

 

 

2. (b) The group of demons who went into the swine (Mark 5:9).

 

 

3. (c) Jairus (Mark 5:22-43; Luke 8:40--56).

Gospels---People and Places

1. Question: Whom did Jesus call "Sons of Thunder"?

2. The scribes accused Jesus of casting out demons by the ruler of the demons, Who is the ruler of the demons?

3. Jesus  said that blasphemy against  someone was an unforgivable sin. Who was that person?

1. James and John (Mark 3:17). Their worst outbreak of rage was during an incident at a

Samaritan village when they wanted to call down fire from heaven to destroy it and its

inhabitants (Luke 9:51-54).

 

 

2. Beelzebub (Mark 3:22).

 

 

3. The Holy Spirit (Mark 3:29 ).

Gospels--People and Places

1.  Multiple choice: Two of the disciples were from Bethsaida but had a house in Capernaum Who were they. (a) James and John; (b) Thaddaeus and Bartholomew or (c) Simon and Andrew.

2. Question: How many friends lowered a paralytic through a roof to be healed by Jesus?

3. Multiple choice: Whom did Jesus identify as the Old Testament character who ate the showbread from the tabernacle "when he was in need and hungry"? (a) Moses; (b) David; or (c) Job.

1. (c) Simon and Andrew (Mark 1:2, 29; John 1:44).

 

 

2. Four (Mark 2:3).

 

 

3. (b) David (Mark 2:25). Jesus used this incident as an example of the way which God's institutions are to serve mankind rather then bind them into harmfully rigid forms (v. 27).

Gospels--People and Places

1. Multiple choice: Who drove Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted? (a) The devil; (b) the Holy Spirit; (c) the scribes and Pharisees.

2. Who said, "What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth?...I know who You are---the Holy one of God"? (a) The thieves on the cross; (b) Simon Peter; or (c) an unclean spirit.

3. Question: What is the more familiar name for the tax collector Levi, the son of Alphaeus?

1. (b) The Holy Spirit (Mark 1:12). The Holy Spirit had come upon Jesus at His baptism and immediately began to motivate Him to pursue the ministry the  Father had for Him.

 

 

2. (c) An unclean spirit (Mark 1:24).

 

 

3. Matthew (Mark 2:14). This is the Matthew who penned the first Gospel.