24. What did Jesus say about the rooster?
(a) “The cock will not crow till you have denied me three times” (John 13:38).
(b) “Before the cock crows twice you will deny me three times” (Mark 14:30).
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25. Did Jesus bear his own cross?
(a) Yes (John 19:17)
(b) No (Matthew 27:31-32)
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26. Did Jesus die before the curtain of the temple was torn?
(a) Yes (Matthew 27:50-51; Mark l5:37-38)
(b) No. After the curtain was torn, then Jesus crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last (Luke 23:45-46)
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27. Did Jesus say anything secretly?
(a) No. “I have said nothing secretly” (John 18:20)
(b) Yes. “He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained
everything” (Mark 4:34). The disciples asked him “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given” (Matthew 13:10-11)
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28. Where was Jesus at the sixth hour on the day of the crucifixion?
(a) On the cross (Mark 15:23)
(b) In Pilate’s court (John 19:14)
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29. The gospels say that two thieves were crucified along with Jesus. Did both thieves mock Jesus?
(a) Yes (Mark 15:32)
(b) No. One of them mocked Jesus, the other defended Jesus (Luke 23:43)
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30. Did Jesus ascend to Paradise the same day of the crucifixion?
(a) Yes. He said to the thief who defended him, “Today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43)
(b) No. He said to Mary Magdelene two days later, “I have not yet ascended to the Father” (John 20:17)
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31. When Paul was on the road to Damascus he saw a light and heard a voice. Did those who were with him hear the voice?
(a) Yes (Acts 9: 7)
(b) No (Acts 22: 9)
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32. When Paul saw the light he fell to the ground. Did his traveling companions also fall to the ground?
(a) Yes (Acts 26:14)
(b) No (Acts 9:7)
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33. Did the voice spell out on the spot what Paul’s duties were to be?
(a) Yes (Acts 26:16-18)
(b) No. The voice commanded Paul to go into the city of Damascus and there he will be told what he must do. (Acts 9:7 & 22:10)
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34. When the Israelites dwelt in Shittin they committed adultery with the daughters of Moab. God struck
them with a plague. How many people died in that plague?
(a) Twenty-four thousand (Numbers 25:1 and 9)
(b) Twenty-three thousand (I Corinthians 10:8)
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35. How many members of the house of Jacob came to Egypt?
(a) Seventy souls (Genesis 46:27 & Ex 1:5)
(b) Seventy-five souls (Acts 7:14)
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36. What did Judas do with the blood money he received for betraying Jesus?
(a) He bought a field with it (Acts 1:18)
(b) He threw all of it into the temple and went away. The priests could not put the blood money into the temple treasury, so the priests used it to buy a field to bury strangers (Matthew 27:5)
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37. How did Judas die?
(a) After he threw the money into the temple he went away and hanged himself (Matthew 27:5)
(b) After he bought the field with the price of his evil deed he fell headlong and burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out (Acts 1:18)
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38. Why is the field called “Field of Blood”?
a) Because the priests bought it with the blood money (Matthew 27:8)
(b) Because of the bloody death of Judas therein (Acts 1:19)
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39. Jesus' death was supposedly a ransom for who?
(a) “The Son of Man came...to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
(b) “Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all... “(I Timothy 2:5-6)
(c) if this can be applied here, Jesus said in Matthew, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel," (Matthew 15:24). To go along with this, Jesus even commands his disciples this, "These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel," (Matt 10:5).
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40. Is the Law of Moses useful?
(a) Yes. “All scripture is... profitable...” (2 Timothy 3:16)
(b) No. “ . . . A former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness... “(Hebrews 7:18)
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41. What was the exact wording on the cross?
(a) “This is Jesus the King of the Jews” (Matthew 27:37)
(b) “The King of the Jews” (Mark 15:26)
(c) “This is the King of the Jews” (Luke 23:38)
(d) “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews” (John 19:19)
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42. Did Herod want to kill John the Baptist?
(a) Yes (Matthew 14:5)
(b) No. It was Herodias, the wife of Herod who wanted to kill him. But Herod knew that he was a righteous man and kept him safe (Mark 6:20)
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43. Who was the tenth disciple of Jesus in the list of twelve?
(a) Thaddaeus (Matthew 10: 1-4; Mark 3:13 -19)
(b) Judas son of James is the corresponding name in Luke’s gospel (Luke 6:12-16)
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44. Jesus saw a man sit at the tax collector’s office and called him to be his disciple. What was his name?
(a) Matthew (Matthew 9:9)
(b) Levi (Mark 2:14; Luke 5:27)
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45. Was Jesus crucified during the day before the Passover meal or the day after?
(a) After (Mark 14:12-17) also Matthew and Luke
(b) Before. Before the feast of the Passover (John 13) Judas went out at night (John 13:30). The other
disciples thought he was going out to buy supplies to prepare for the Passover meal (John 13:29).
When Jesus was arrested, the Jews did not enter Pilate’s judgment hail because they wanted to stay clean to eat the Passover (John 18:28). When the judgment was pronounced against Jesus, it was about the sixth hour on the day of Preparation for the Passover (John 19:14)
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46. Did Jesus pray to The Father to prevent the crucifixion?
(a) Yes. (Matthew 26:39; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42)
(b) No. (John 12:27)
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47. In the gospels which say that Jesus prayed to avoid the cross, how many times did ‘he move away from his disciples to pray?
(a) Three (Matthew 26:36-46 and Mark 14:32-42)
(b) One. No opening is left for another two times. (Luke 22:39-46)
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48. Matthew and Mark agree that Jesus went away and prayed three times. What were the words of the second prayer?
(a) Mark does not give the words but he says that the words were the same as the first prayer (Mark 14:3 9)
(b) Matthew gives us the words, and we can see that they are not the same as in the first (Matthew 26:42), thus contradicting Mark.
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49. What did the centurion say when Jesus dies?
(a) “Certainly this man was innocent” (Luke 23:47)
(b) “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39)
(c) "Truly this was the Son of God," Matt 27:54
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50. When Jesus said, “My God, my God,” on the cross.... what language did he speak?
(a) Hebrew: the words are “Eli, Eli…“(Matthew 27:46)
(b) Aramaic: the words are “Eloi, Eloi..." (Mark 15:34)
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51. According to the gospels, what were the last words of Jesus before he died?
(a) “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” (Luke 23:46)
(b) "It is finished" (John 19:30).
(c) Matthew and Mark have him saying nothing beyond "my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He just cries out with a load voice, like a hollering scream possibly.
This it would appear that Luke and John display a mission, whereas Mark and Matthew display disappointment because his enemies were victorious.
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52. When Jesus entered Capernaum he healed the slave of a centurion. Did the centurion come personally to request Jesus for this?
(a) Yes (Matthew 8:5)
(b) No. He sent some elders of the Jews and his friends (Luke 7:3 & 7:6)
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53. If God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow... and in his law it says,
"Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere."
Then why did He have Cain and Seth marry their sisters?
1 Samuel 15:29
"And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
James 1:17
"...the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
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54. Apart from Jesus did anyone else ascend to heaven?
(a) No (John 3:13)
(b) Yes. “And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven” (2 Kings 2:11)
(c) Yes, Enoch (Gen 5:24)
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55. Who was high priest when David went into the house of God and ate the consecrated bread?
(a) Abiathar (Mark 2:26)
(b) Ahimelech, the father of Abiathar (I Samuel 1:1; 22:20)
Hard to be "God in the flesh," if you can't get your own scriptures correct!
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56. Was Jesus’ body wrapped in spices before burial in accordance with Jewish burial customs?
(a) Yes (John 19:39-40)
(b) No. Jesus was simply wrapped in a linen shroud. After the sabbath the women bought and came with "sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him," (Mark 16: 1)
(c) no, In Matthew, Joseph doesn't use spices and the women don't have spices at all in the story and no one intends to use any on the body of Jesus.
(d) no, In Luke the women prepared the spices on Friday, but brought them on Sunday
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57. At what time of day did the women visit the tomb?
(a) “At the beginning of dawn” (Matt 28: 1)
(b) “Just after sunrise” (Mark 16:2)
(c) early dawn (Luke 24:1)
(d) when it was still dark (John 20:1)
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58. What was the purpose of the women going to the tomb?
(a) To anoint Jesus’ body with spices (Mark 16: 1; Luke 23:55 to 24: 1)
(b) To see the tomb. Nothing about spices here (Matthew 28: 1)
(c) For no specified reason. In this gospel the wrapping with spices had been done before the Sabbath (John 20: 1)
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59. A large stone was placed at the entrance of the tomb. Where was the stone when the women arrived?
(a) They saw that the stone was “Rolled back” (Mark 16:4) They found the stone “rolled away from the
tomb” (Luke 24:2) They saw that “the stone had been taken away from the tomb” (John 20:1)
(b) As the women approached, an angel descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and conversed
with the women. Matthew made the women witness the spectacular rolling away of the stone
(Matthew 28:1-6)
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60. Did anyone tell the women what occurred to Jesus’ body?
(a) Yes. “A young man in a white robe” (Mark 16:5). “Two men ... in dazzling apparel” later described
as angels (Luke 24:4 and 24:23). An angel - the one who rolled back the stone (Matthew 16:2).
In each case the women were told that Jesus had risen from the dead (Matthew 28:7; Mark 16:6; Luke 24:5)
(b) No. Mary met no one and returned saying, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him” (John 20:2)
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61. When did Mary Magdelene first meet the resurrected Jesus? And how did she react?
(a) Mary and the other women met Jesus on their way back from their first and only visit to the tomb.
They took hold of his feet and worshipped him (Matthew 28:1-10)
(b) On her second visit to the tomb Mary met Jesus just outside the tomb. When she saw Jesus she did not recognize him. She mistook him for the gardener. She still thinks that Jesus’ body is laid to rest somewhere and she demands to know where. But when Jesus said her name she at once recognized him and called him “Teacher.” Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me...” (John 20:1-17)
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62. What was Jesus’ instruction to Mary?
(a) “...go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me” (Matthew 28: 10)
(b) “...go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father; and your Father, to my God
and your God” (John 20:17)
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63. Did Jesus prevent Mary from touching him on the day of the resurrection.
(a) No (Matt 28:9-10)
(b) yes (John 20:17)
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64. When did the disciples return to Galilee after the resurrection?
(a) Immediately (Matthew 28:16-17).
(b) maybe never, but at least after 48 days if Luke wrote Acts. For Jesus told them to remain in Jerusalem (Luke 24:49).
(c) maybe never, for Jesus told them remain in Jerusalem till they get the Spirit baptism, which came 48 days after his resurrection on Pentecost or during the Feast of weeks or Shavuot (Acts 1:4-5)
(Footnote) the counting of the 50 days to Shavuot starts on the 16th of Aviv/Nisan
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65. Was Jesus baptized?
(a) Yes (Matt 3:16; Mark 1:9; Luke 3:21)
(b) Doesn't say, rather John just points out who he supposedly was, because he saw the Spirit come upon him like a dove (John 1:29-34)
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66. After the Spirit came upon Jesus supposedly like a dove, where did Jesus go?
(a) he was led up into the wilderness and was there 40 days (Matt 4:1; Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1)
(b) the next day he came by John again and gained 3 disciples that day: John, Andrew and Peter. The very next day he went up to Galilee and gained Philip and Nathanael. The third day he attended a wedding. Thus, no wilderness scene!
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