The Life of Jesus - Quiz No.4

01

During his last week in Jerusalem, in which village did Jesus lodge overnight?

 

02

The Pharisees asked Jesus whether or not it was lawful for a Jew to pay taxes to Caesar - knowing that if he said ‘No,’ he would incriminate himself with Rome, and if he said ‘Yes,’ he would alienate the Jewish populace. What was Jesus’ reply?

 

03

When the Sadducees, who only accepted the authority of the five books of Moses, asked Jesus about the resurrection, how did Jesus prove to them (from the Book of Exodus) that God would raise the patriarchs?

 

04

When a lawyer asked Jesus which was the great commandment of the Law, to which commandment did Jesus direct him?

 

05

”Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” Of what was Jesus speaking to his disciples?

 

06

In Jesus’ parable of the five wise and five foolish maidens waiting for the arrival of the bridegroom, in what way did Jesus say the wise differed from the foolish?

 

07

In Jesus’ parable of the talents, what did the man who received only one talent do, and how did his master assess his work?

 

08

When the chief priests and elders gathered to plan the arrest of Jesus, what was the name of the high priest in whose palace they met?

 

09

One evening at Bethany a woman came and anointed Jesus’ head with very expensive ointment from an alabaster jar. When some complained about what she had done, how did Jesus respond?

 

10

When Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and offered to betray Jesus to them, what did they pay him for his service?

 

11

When Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples in an upper room in Jerusalem, he took the simple elements of bread and wine upon the table and gave them added significance. What did he say of the wine, when he gave it to his disciples?

 

12

After their communal meal Jesus took them to a favourite garden on the slopes of the Mount of Olives. What was the name of that garden?

 

13

When he told his disciples that they would all desert him that night, Peter asserted that he would never fail him. What was Jesus’ reply?

 

14

In the garden Jesus took three of his disciples apart to be with him as he prayed. What were the names of those three?

 

15

When the armed group from the high priest arrived to arrest Jesus, Peter tried to hold them at bay with a sword, and in so doing cut off someone’s ear. Whose ear was cut off - and subsequently restored by Jesus?

 

16

When the witnesses, assembled for the unlawful trial of Jesus, were found to be unreliable, the High Priest in desperation put a question to Jesus, hoping that he would incriminate himself. What was the question posed?

 

17

After Jesus had been condemned to death by the court, Judas repented of his action and brought back the money he had received. What did the chief priests decide to do with it?

 

18

When Judas saw that he could not reverse his act of betrayal, what course of action did he take?

 

 

 

 

   (NB. Quotations are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.)

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