Q 01/05

Which 'most excellent' addressee, named again at the start of Acts, did Luke write his 'orderly account' for?

A) Theophilus

B) Philologus

C) Tychicus

D) Onesimus

Answer · why

A) Theophilus

Theophilus means 'lover of God', so he may be a real patron or any Christian reader; 'most excellent' is the form of address Acts uses for Roman gover...

Q 02/05

Which two passed by 'on the other side' before the Good Samaritan stopped for the beaten man, in Luke 10?

A) A scribe and a Pharisee

B) A soldier and a merchant

C) A priest and a Levite

D) A rabbi and a farmer

Answer · why

C) A priest and a Levite

A priest and a Levite, both temple men, walked past before the Samaritan poured oil and wine on the wounds and paid the innkeeper two denarii, promisi...

Q 03/05

In Luke's parable of the prodigal son, what job did the starving younger son take in the 'distant country'?

A) Tending sheep

B) Feeding pigs

C) Picking grapes

D) Threshing wheat

Answer · why

B) Feeding pigs

Feeding pigs, unclean animals to a Jewish audience, was the low point: he 'longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no ...

Q 04/05

Which chief tax collector of Jericho, too short to see over the crowd, climbed a sycamore-fig tree in Luke 19?

A) Nicodemus

B) Bartimaeus

C) Matthias

D) Zacchaeus

Answer · why

D) Zacchaeus

Zacchaeus came down to host Jesus and promised half his possessions to the poor and fourfold repayment to anyone he had cheated, earning the verdict '...

Q 05/05

Whose census decree, recorded only by Luke, brought Mary and her betrothed from Nazareth to Bethlehem?

A) Tiberius Caesar

B) Caesar Augustus

C) Claudius Caesar

D) Julius Caesar

Answer · why

B) Caesar Augustus

Caesar Augustus ordered 'a census of the entire Roman world', and the family went to Bethlehem because Mary's husband belonged to the house and line o...