REP 3 - Life and Teachings of Jesus (Key Vocabulary)

Question 1

Baptism

Answer 1

A ritual in which people are immersed in water to symbolize turning away from sin and following God

Question 2

Bethlehem

Answer 2

The city where Jesus was born

Question 3

Blasphemy

Answer 3

Disrespect towards God

Question 4

Disciples

Answer 4

Jesus’s 12 main followers

Question 5

Fast

Answer 5

To eat very little or no food; at a time of Jesus jews often fasted as a way to focus on God

Question 6

Gospels

Answer 6

The first four books of the New Testament; the word gospel means ‘good news’

Question 7

Incarnation

Answer 7

God coming to earth as a human

Question 8

Ministry

Answer 8

The name given to the three years that Jesus spent preaching and performing miracles

Question 9

Outcasts

Answer 9

People who are not accepted by society

Question 10

Parable

Answer 10

A short story intended to make a particular point or tell a moral lesson

Question 11

Pharisees

Answer 11

A group of Jews at the time of Jesus who followed the rules of the Torah very strictly

Question 12

Prodigal

Answer 12

Wasteful

Question 13

Ressurection

Answer 13

Comming back to life after dying

Question 14

Samaritans Jews from the region called

Answer 14

Samaria which lay on the border with northan Israel

Question 15

Sermon on the mount

Answer 15

A sermon given by Jesus giving guidance on how people should live their lives

Question 16

Trinity

Answer 16

The belief that God is three as well as one - Father, Son and Holy Spirit