Q 01/05

According to Christian belief, God raised Jesus from the dead on which day after his crucifixion?

A) The third day

B) The first day

C) The seventh day

D) The fortieth day

Answer · why

A) The third day

The phrase comes from Hosea 6; in Semitic reckoning any part of a 24-hour period counted as a day and a night, which is how Friday to Sunday makes thr...

Q 02/05

Mark's original ending has the empty tomb found by the Magdalene, Salome and whom?

A) The mother of James

B) Joanna of Galilee

C) Martha of Bethany

D) The mother of Jesus

Answer · why

A) The mother of James

A young man in white tells them Jesus will meet the disciples in Galilee; the longer ending was added later.

Q 03/05

In Mark's account, who announces to the women at the tomb that Jesus has risen?

A) Two shining angels

B) The apostle Peter

C) A young man in white

D) The tomb's gardener

Answer · why

C) A young man in white

Matthew makes it an angel and Luke two angelic beings; John has Mary meet Jesus himself.

Q 04/05

The earliest written Christian creed about the resurrection appears in which New Testament letter?

A) Romans

B) First Thessalonians

C) Second Timothy

D) First Corinthians

Answer · why

D) First Corinthians

Paul says he received it and passed it on; scholars think it was formalised in Jerusalem within a few years of the events.

Q 05/05

According to that creed, after Cephas and the twelve, Jesus appeared at one time to how many people?

A) More than five hundred

B) One hundred and twenty

C) Seventy disciples

D) About three thousand

Answer · why

A) More than five hundred

Paul adds that most of them were still alive, then lists James and all the apostles, and finally himself.