Life of Christ Exam 3

Which option did the Antagonists to Jesus’ miracles choose?

Attribute the miracles to another source

A kingdom, a house, or Satan divided cannot do what?

Stand

Jesus cast out demons by whose power?

Spirit of God

According to Mark 3:35, Jesus regards as family whoever does what?

Does the will of God

Define Parable

A type of allegory in which spiritual truths are illustrated or explained with true-to-life occurences in the human experience

One of the purposes of teaching in parables is that the message is hidden from whom?

Those who are hard-hearted, prejudiced, or spiritually blind

One of the purposes of teaching parables is that the message enlightens whom?

Those open to the truth and make the effort to understand

In the Lord’s parable of a sower planting seed, the seeds fell on how many different types of soil?

4 Types: Wayside, stony, thorny, and good

In the parable of the sower, what does the seed represent?

The Word of God

The heart receiving God’s word, described as “wayside” soil, lacks what?

Understanding, and is snatched away

The heart receiving God’s word, described as “stony” soil, because of superficial understanding does not endure and gives up in the face of what?

Not rooted deeply, doesn’t endure through trials

The heart receiving God’s word, described as “thorny” soil, is overridden by what kind of cares and desires?

Worldly cares and desires

The heart receiving God’s word, described as “good” soil, is open to and understands and accepts what?

Open to, understands, and accepts the word

Which of these “soils” bears fruit?

The good soil

“Hear” in the NT, akouo

Involves more than the mere reception of audible sounds but includes listening, understanding, accepting, and hearkening unto the divine message

Jesus likens the growth of God’s kingdom to what kind of seed?

Mustard seed

Considering how extraordinarily full and busy Jesus’ ministry was, sleeping on a boat during a storm indicates what about Him and His humanness at the time?

Shows His extreme exhaustion

Having calmed a storm, Jesus rebuked His fearful disciples for their lack of what?

Lack of Faith

When Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee, He appears to have been in predominately Gentile territory because of the abundance of what animal?

Pigs

A “legion” was a division of the Roman army of approximately how many soldiers

6000

When the local Gadarenes/Gergesenes pleaded with Jesus to depart from them, whom did Jesus send back to them as a missionary?

The former demoniac

The bleeding woman whom Jesus healed had been bleeding for how long?

12 years

Who were the only immediate disciples of Jesus allowed to accompany Him into Jairus’ house to witness the raising of the girl from the dead?

Peter, James, and John

What was Jesus’ secular trade inherited from His stepfather?

Carpentry

Jesus had at least how many half brothers?

4

Jesus had at least how many half sisters?

2 or more

Only Mark records the locals of Nazareth referring to Jesus as the son of whom?

Son of Mary

During the adult years of Jesus there are multiple references to His mother Mary, almost always in the company of her children but no allusion to Joseph. What does this seem to indicate?

Joseph may have died, making Mary a widow

What was the general attitude toward Jesus among the people of His hometown?

Unreceptive

When Jesus sent out the twelve apostles on their limited mission of teaching and healing, how did He divide them up?

Pairs of two

Whom did King Herod (Antipas) execute for challenging His unlawful marriage?

John the Baptist

What is the only miracle of Jesus, besides the resurrection, recorded in all four Gospels

The feeding of the 5000

When Jesus prayed in public, where would He often look?

Up to Heaven

When Jesus fed over 5000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish, how many baskets of leftovers were collected?

12 baskets full

When Jesus withdrew from His disciples to pray and sent them ahead in a boat, He later met up with them by walking on what?

Walking on the water

As noted in class, the eating-with-unwashed-hands controversy, was the issue of what?

Pharisaic traditions

In Jesus’ encounter with the Syro-Phonecian Greek woman, she demonstrated what kind of faith?

Great faith

When Jesus fed over 4000 people with seven loaves of bread and a few small fish, how many large baskets of leftovers were collected?

7 large baskets

As Peter and His fellow apostles struggled to comprehend Christ’s impending death, any attempt to interrupt God’s plan was to serve whose purpose?

Satan’s purpose

To be a follower of Christ, one must deny what and take up what?

Deny oneself and take up the cross

The Lord’s contemporary disciples were promised that in their lifetime they would see God’s kingdom to have come with what?

Come with power

Who were the only disciples allowed to witness the transfiguration of Christ?

Peter, James, and John

It was revealed at Christ’s transfiguration that instead of listening to Moses and Elijah (the Law and the Prophets), attention is now to be given to whom?

Jesus the Christ

What object lesson did Jesus use to teach about humility?

A small child

When Jesus said, “he who is not against us is on our side”, who was He referring to?

A genuine disciple doing the Lord’s will

When Jesus said, “He who is not with me is against me”, who was He referring to?

Hard-hearted antagonists

When Jesus spoke of cutting off the hand and the foot and plucking out the eye, what did He mean by this?

Used hyperbolic imagery to stress the seriousness of sin and its consequences