Mark Stories Two

Question 1

Who did Jesus say this to “ Come with me and I will teach you to catch people?

Answer 1

Simon Peter and his brother Andrew

Question 2

Who was Levi?

Answer 2

A tax collextor who became a disciple of Jesus

Question 3

What special name did Jesus call the 12?

Answer 3

Apostles

Question 4

What does Jesus say about any one who wants to save his life?

Answer 4

They would lose it

Question 5

What does Jesus say about those who want to be first?

Answer 5

They would have to put themselves last and the servant of all

Question 6

What did the rich man have to do to receive eternal life?

Answer 6

Sell everything he had and give the money to the poor

Question 7

Who asked to sit on the left and right of Jesus in the glorious kingdom?

Answer 7

James and John

Question 8

What did Jesus say to the father of the boy with the evil spirit?

Answer 8

Everything is possible for him who believes

Question 9

Who came to serve and to give his life to redeem many people?

Answer 9

The Son of Man (Jesus)

Question 10

Where did the story of the widow’s offering (mite) take place?

Answer 10

The Temple

Question 11

How did the disciples let Jesus down in the Garden of Gethsemane?

Answer 11

All of them

Question 12

What did Jesus say to the paralysed man brought to him by 4 friends?

Answer 12

Your sins are forgiven

Question 13

How did Jesus answer the question “ Why does he eat with such people”?

Answer 13

It is not the healthy who need a doctor but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

Question 14

What miracle did Jesus perform in a synagogue on a Sabbath?

Answer 14

He healed a man with a shrivelled hand

Question 15

What things according to Jesus make a person unclean?

Answer 15

He said it is ‘what comes out of a man that makes him unclean’

Question 16

What did the Jews use Corban as an excuse to avoid?

Answer 16

It was used as an excuse not to honour their fathers and mothers

Question 17

What did the crowd do and say as Jesus entered Jerusalem?

Answer 17

Hosanna![a]”
Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields - they shouted “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”

Question 18

Why did Jesus overturn the tables in the Temple?

Answer 18

Jesus said “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.]”

Question 19

When asked by the religious leaders whose authority Jesus used - what did Jesus say?

Answer 19

He refused to tell them

Question 20

How did Jesus answer the question about paying taxes?

Answer 20

He said ‘give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give to God what belongs to God.

Question 21

Who asked Jesus a question about resurrection and a wife with 7 husbands?

Answer 21

The Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection

Question 22

How did Jesus answer the question - which commandment is the most important?

Answer 22

The most important one,“is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Question 23

What happened in Simon’s house in Bethany?

Answer 23

A woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

Question 24

What did Jesus say about the bread and wine in the last Supper?

Answer 24

Jesus took bread, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”
Then he took a cup, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,”

Question 25

Who was the first trial before? What was the charge?

Answer 25

The Sanhedrin. Blasphemy.

Question 26

At what time did they crucify Jesus?

Answer 26

It was nine in the morning when they crucified him

Question 27

How did the disciples know where the body of Jesus was buried?

Answer 27

Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.

Question 28

When and why did the women go to the tomb?

Answer 28

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body

Question 29

How many resurrection appearances are recorded in the longer ending?

Answer 29

14

Question 30

Which Aramaic words did Jesus say to Jairus’ daughter? What did they mean?

Answer 30

“Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).

Question 31

Who asked Jesus “to take pity on me”? What did he call Jesus?

Answer 31

Blind Bartimaeus. “Jesus, Son of David”

Question 32

What should we be like to enter the Kingdom of God?

Answer 32

Jesus said - anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it