Unit 2

Question 1

 The Greek word translated “gospel” means what?

Answer 1

Good news!

Question 2

Which canonical Gospels are anonymous?

Answer 2

All of them

Question 3

What refers to a portion of text such as a parable, sermon, or healing story

Answer 3

Pericope

Question 4

Which of the Gospels mention John the Baptist, a cousin of Jesus who was also a prophet and announced Jesus’s coming.

Answer 4

All of them

Question 5

Which of the Gospels feature Jesus’s miracles, wise teaching, ethical calling, and conflict with religious authorities.

Answer 5

All of them

Question 6

Which of the Gospels are aimed at the last week of Jesus’s life, called the Passion week, including his trials, crucifixion, and resurrection.

Answer 6

All of them

Question 7

What gospels are from after the first century and tell us hardly anything about Jesus’s life and ministry.

Answer 7

All non canonical

Question 8

What is the Synoptic problem?

Answer 8

Explaining the extensive similarities, together with the unique features of each synoptic Gospel,

Question 9

What was the first Gospel written?

Answer 9

Mark

Question 10

What are the synoptic gospels?

Answer 10

Matthew, Mark, Luke

Question 11

What is the shortest Gospel?

Answer 11

Mark

Question 12

Which Gospel written has a more storytelling style than a polished style?

Answer 12

Mark

Question 13

Where and when was Mark written?

Answer 13

Rome in 70 AD

Question 14

What Gospel has many different endings?

Answer 14

Mark

Question 15

What is the most distinctive thing about the book Mark?

Answer 15

those who should understand who Jesus is either don’t understand (religious leaders …) or come to understand very gradually (his disciples …)

Question 16

Who was known also as Levi and was a tax collector?

Answer 16

Matthew

Question 17

What book is the most Jewish of the Gospels?

Answer 17

Matthew

Question 18

What book can the sermon on the mount be found?

Answer 18

Matthew

Question 19

What sermon has the Lords Prayer and the Golden Rule?

Answer 19

The Sermon on the Mount

Question 20

Who was a companion of Paul and was the author of both the third Gospel and Acts?

Answer 20

Luke

Question 21

Who opens his book with “most excellent Theophilus”
which is the patron of the book

Answer 21

Luke

Question 22

Which Gospel is the longest?

Answer 22

Luke

Question 23

Who emphasizes Jesus’s positive interactions with marginalized people such as peasants, women, and Samaritans.

Answer 23

Luke

Question 24

Who puts an emphasis on the gospel being for the entire Greco-Roman world, not only for Jews.

Answer 24

Luke

Question 25

What Gospel is the non synoptic gospel and what makes it different?

Answer 25

John Minimizes certain prominent features of Jesus’s ministry, such as exorcisms Contains unique pericopes, such as turning water to wine, meeting the Woman at the Well, and raising Lazarus from the dead.

Question 26

What is Johns purpose statement?

Answer 26

“Then Jesus did many other miraculous signs in his disciples’ presence, signs that aren’t recorded in this scroll. But these things are written so that you will believe that Jesus is the Christ, God’s Son, and that believing, you will have life in his name”

Question 27

Who was an apostle and brother of James the apostle?

Answer 27

John

Question 28

Where was the book of John written?

Answer 28

Ephesus

Question 29

In which book did the centurion near the cross say of Jesus, ”Truly this man was the Son of God”

Answer 29

Mark

Question 30

In which book did a man request for Jesus to heal his son includes the statement, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

Answer 30

Mark

Question 31

In what book do religious leaders pick up rocks to kill Jesus when he says to them, “Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Answer 31

John

Question 32

What book states, “I am the Bread of Life.” “I am the Light of the World” “I am the Good Shepherd”

Answer 32

John

Question 33

What books opening verse is, “The scroll of genesis of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”

Answer 33

Matthew

Question 34

What goes per includes more parables about women than others

Answer 34

Luke

Question 35

This gospels genealogy of Jesus mentions five women who were not people you’d expect

Answer 35

Matthew

Question 36

Which book does Jesus offer a Samaritan women living water?

Answer 36

John

Question 37

Which gospel includes a post resurrection story in which Jesus reveals himself to two disciples as they walk home from Emmaus?

Answer 37

Luke

Question 38

Which book does Jesus turn water into wine at a wedding?

Answer 38

John

Question 39

The author of this book write Acts

Answer 39

Luke