Biblical Allusions 3

Question 1

a title given to Jesus Christ in John 10:11—12

Answer 1

Good Shepherd

Question 2

the telling of the life and death of Jesus

Answer 2

Gospel

Question 3

the books that tell of the life of Jesus: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Answer 3

Gospels

Question 4

an idiom for “imminent doom or misfortune” and for “the future is predetermined”; hand wrote words on the wall and the king was killed

Answer 4

Handwriting on the wall

Question 5

the presence of God as part of a person’s religious experience

Answer 5

Holy Spirit

Question 6

a statement that the cosmos had an absolute beginning and describing the condition of the world when God began creating

Answer 6

In the beginning

Question 7

a ladder seen by Jacob in a dream, reaching from the earth to heaven

Answer 7

Jacob’s ladder

Question 8

a battle in the biblical Book of Joshua; the first battle of the Israelites during their conquest of Canaan; the walls of Jericho fell after Joshua’s Israelite army marched around the city blowing their trumpets

Answer 8

The Battle of Jericho

Question 9

a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims; the capital of the ancient kingdom of Judah and of the modern state of Israel; name means “city of peace”

Answer 9

Jerusalem

Question 10

an immoral, cruel queen of Israel who attempted to kill Elijah and other prophets of God

Answer 10

Jezebel

Question 11

a Jewish patriarch, who maintained his faith in God in spite of the afflictions sent by God to test him

Answer 11

Job

Question 12

he was an Israelite whom God had called to be a prophet but who refused to accept his divine mission and left on a sea voyage instead; God then raised a great storm as a sign of his anger; saved from drowning when he was swallowed by a great fish and lived for three days then took up his prophetic mission

Answer 12

Jonah and the whale

Question 13

the apostle who betrayed Jesus to his enemies for 30 pieces of silver

Answer 13

Judas Iscariot

Question 14

the occasion of the Last (or General) Judgment by God at the end of the world

Answer 14

Judgment Day

Question 15

often cited as a prophecy speaking of a literal utopia on earth to come—a Golden Age; misquoted often

Answer 15

Lamb shall lie down with the lion

Question 16

a metaphor meaning all good things—God’s blessings; and that the Promised Land must have been a land of extraordinary fertility

Answer 16

Land flowing with milk and honey

Question 17

the meal eaten by Christ with his disciples on the night before his Crucifixion, during which he is believed to have instituted the Eucharist

Answer 17

Last Supper

Question 18

the brother of Mary and Martha, whom Jesus restored to life or the beggar who lay at the gate of the rich man Dives in Jesus’ parable

Answer 18

Lazarus

Question 19

a verse that continues the discussion of worry about material provisions; Jesus said to not worry because God will provide for even the flowers

Answer 19

Lilies of the field

Question 20

a miracle performed by Jesus; he was preaching to a crowd of thousands who grew hungry and needed to be fed, but only five loaves and two fishes could be found; he blessed the food and then it was distributed with leftovers

Answer 20

Loaves and fishes