Q 01/05

In Jesus's parable about kindness, who helps a beaten traveller after a priest and a Levite walk past?

A) A Samaritan

B) A Pharisee

C) A Roman soldier

D) A tax collector

Answer · why

A) A Samaritan

A Samaritan was the last hero the audience expected, since Jews of the day did not associate with Samaritans. He bandaged the man's wounds and paid an...

Q 02/05

Which biblical sufferer, stripped of wealth, family and health, gave English a byword for patience?

A) Lot

B) Job

C) Jonah

D) Noah

Answer · why

B) Job

Job is praised for his endurance in the letter of James, and the King James wording, 'the patience of Job', passed into everyday speech.

Q 03/05

Jesus entered Jerusalem 'gentle and riding on' which animal, fulfilling a prophecy of Zechariah?

A) A war horse

B) A camel

C) A donkey

D) A mule

Answer · why

C) A donkey

A donkey carries the king in Zechariah's prophecy, which goes on to promise that he will take away the war horses and proclaim peace to the nations.

Q 04/05

On the night Jesus was born, to whom did an angel announce 'good news that will cause great joy'?

A) Fishermen

B) Innkeepers

C) Wise men

D) Shepherds

Answer · why

D) Shepherds

Shepherds keeping watch over their flocks near Bethlehem heard it first, then hurried into town and found the baby lying in a manger.

Q 05/05

Teaching his disciples how to bear much fruit, Jesus says 'I am the vine; you are the' what?

A) Gardeners

B) Leaves

C) Branches

D) Grapes

Answer · why

C) Branches

Branches cut off from the vine simply wither, Jesus goes on, so his followers bear fruit only by staying joined to him: 'apart from me you can do noth...