Q 01/05

Which term from Greek philosophy does John's prologue apply to Christ, rendered 'the Word' in English Bibles?

A) Logos

B) Sophia

C) Pneuma

D) Nous

Answer · why

A) Logos

Logos: in Goethe's Faust, the scholar struggling to translate this verse rejects 'Word' and finally writes 'In the beginning was the Deed'.

Q 02/05

Which word completes John 1:14 in the NIV: 'The Word became ___ and made his dwelling among us'?

A) Man

B) Spirit

C) Flesh

D) Light

Answer · why

C) Flesh

Flesh: when this passage closed the old Latin Mass as the Last Gospel, the priest genuflected at the words 'Et Verbum caro factum est'.

Q 03/05

Which title did John the Baptist give Jesus at the Jordan, adding 'who takes away the sin of the world'?

A) The Lion of Judah

B) The Lamb of God

C) The Son of David

D) The Light of Israel

Answer · why

B) The Lamb of God

The Lamb of God was said the day after priests and Levites had questioned the Baptist, and its Latin form, Agnus Dei, became a fixed part of the Catho...

Q 04/05

In which Galilean village did Jesus perform his first sign, at a wedding where the wine ran out?

A) Nain

B) Magdala

C) Chorazin

D) Cana

Answer · why

D) Cana

Cana is where the master of the banquet, tasting the new wine without knowing where it came from, told the bridegroom he had saved the best till now.

Q 05/05

Which verse, the shortest in the King James Bible, comes as Christ nears a dead friend's tomb in John 11?

A) Jesus wept

B) Rejoice evermore

C) Pray without ceasing

D) Remember Lot's wife

Answer · why

A) Jesus wept

Jesus wept is John 11:35, and the onlookers read the tears two ways: 'See how he loved him!' and why had a healer of the blind not prevented the death...