Q 01/05

Colossians 4:6 says speech should always be gracious and seasoned with which kitchen staple?

A) Salt

B) Honey

C) Cumin

D) Vinegar

Answer · why

A) Salt

Salt is Paul's picture for talk with some flavour to it, and he gives the reason at once: so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Q 02/05

Colossians 4:14 names Luke, by tradition the third Gospel's author, as a member of which profession?

A) Fisherman

B) Physician

C) Tax collector

D) Tentmaker

Answer · why

B) Physician

Physician is Paul's word for Luke, the reason he is thought to have been a healer as well as a writer, and he is now honoured as a patron saint of phy...

Q 03/05

In Colossians 2:14, what did God do with the record of debt against believers?

A) Buried it in the tomb

B) Cast it into the sea

C) Nailed it to the cross

D) Burned it on the altar

Answer · why

C) Nailed it to the cross

Nailed it to the cross is how Paul pictures a debt being cancelled, coming straight after his claim that people dead in their trespasses had been brou...

Q 04/05

Colossae, the Colossians' city about 100 miles from Ephesus, lies in ruins in which modern country?

A) Greece

B) Syria

C) Italy

D) Turkey

Answer · why

D) Turkey

Turkey is home to the site, a mound of buried ruins near the town of Honaz at the foot of Mount Cadmus, the highest peak in the country's western Aege...

Q 05/05

Paul ends Colossians by writing the greeting himself and asking readers to remember what?

A) His guards

B) His chains

C) His trial

D) His cell

Answer · why

B) His chains

His chains get three plain words, 'Remember my chains', squeezed between Paul's signature and the letter's closing blessing of grace.