Gospels--People and Places

1. Multiple choice: Who was imprisoned  for robbery, insurrection, and murder? (a) John the Baptist; (b) Malchus; or (c) Barabbas.

2. Who was "in the beginning with God"? (a) Satan; (b) Gabriel; or (c) the Word.

3. John said he baptized with: (a) Love; (b) water; or (c) spirit.

1. (c) Barabbas (Luke 23:19; John 18:40).

 

 

2. (c) The Word (John 1:1).

 

 

3. (b) Water (John 1:26).  John said this in order to contrast his baptism with the ministry of the greater One who was about to emerge (v. 27).

Gospels--People and Places

1. Question: When Jesus began His Galilean ministry, He Taught in the synagogue and healed extensively in a city on the northern shores of the Sea of Galilee. What was this city which became the home base of Jesus' travels?

2. Multiple choice: Some of the disciples were known by more than one name. By what other name was Judas  the son of James known? (a) Simon the Canaanite; (b) Judas Iscariot; or (c) Thaddaeus.

3. What did Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna have in common? (a) Deliverance from harlotry; (b) support of Jesus' ministry; or (c) presence at the Crucifixion.

 

 

 

1. Capernaum (Luke 4:31).

 

 

2. (a) Simon the Canaanite (Luke 6:16; Mark 3:18).

 

 

3. (b) Support of Jesus' ministry (Luke 8:2, 3).

Gospels--People and Places

1. Multiple choice: Who was described as "a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher"?  (a) Elizabeth; (b) Mary; or (c) Anna.

2. Who was the Caesar when John the Baptist began to preach " a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins"? (a) Tiberius; (b) Titus Flavius; or (c) Marcus Aurelius.

3. Question: What was the ethnic origin of the man in Jesus' parable who demonstrated neighborliness to the victim of a beating and robbery?

 

 

1. (c) Anna (Luke 2:36).

 

 

2. (a) Tiberius (Luke 3:1)

 

 

3. Samaritan (Luke 10:33).

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).