admin1. Choose five of the passages (a) to (i) and answer the questions which follow.
(a) It seemed good to me . . . to write an orderly account for you . . . (Luke 1:3)
(i) What did Luke say next about his purpose in writing his gospel?
(ii) Name the person he was addressing.
(iii) Comment on that person’s likely background and position. [6]
(b) . . . the star which they had seen in the East went before them. (Matthew 2:9)
(i) What else are we told about this star?
(ii) What was the reaction of those who saw it or heard about it? [6]
(c) “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary …?” (Mark 6:3)
(i) What other relations of Jesus are mentioned by these questioners?
(ii) What did he say to them?
(iii) What work was he able to do there, and why did he marvel? [6]
(d) “The men of this generation … are like children sitting in the market place and calling to one another.” (Luke 7:31, 32)
(i) What did the children call to one another?
(ii) What did Jesus go on to say about John the Baptist and himself? [6]
(e) “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none.” (Matthew 12:43)
(i) What else did Jesus say about this spirit?
(ii) Explain why Jesus made these remarks. [6]
(f) When he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” (Mark 8:23)
(i) Give the man’s reply.
(ii) Where did this incident take place?
(iii) What happened next, and what was unique about the cure? [6]
(g) “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone.”
(Matthew 18:15)
Complete what Jesus said about settling grievances. [6]
(h) “Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died without children.”
(Luke 20:29)
(i) Why did the Sadducees tell this story?
(ii) What did they say about Moses?
(iii) What did Jesus say about Moses? [6]
(i) … who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate …
(Mark 15:43)
(i) Who was this man, and what official position did he hold?
(ii) What did he ask Pilate, and what did this man do next? [6]
Answer four of Questions 2–10
2 (a) Give an account of the visit to the Temple by Jesus when he was 12 years old. [12]
(b) Comment on three important points in this incident. [6]
3 (a)Narrate what happened on the lake and on the shore after Jesus had borrowed Peter’s boat to speak to the crowds.[12]
(b) Comment on Peter’s behaviour on this occasion and his reaction to what Jesus said and did. [6]
4 (a) In the Sermon on the Mount, what were Jesus’ comments on the laws
(i) ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’, [6]
and (ii) ‘You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’?[6]
(b) Explain with reference to the above laws what Jesus meant by saying he had not come to abolish the Law but to fulfil (NEB complete) it. [6]
5 (a) Describe the occasion when Jesus was asked to go to Jairus’ daughter. (Do not include the healing of the woman who touched Jesus’ robe.) [12]
(b) Comment on three things Jesus said on this occasion. [6]
6 (a) (i) Give Jesus’ answer to the demand, “Bid my brother divide the inheritance with me.”(NEB
(‘Tell my brother to divide the family property with me.’) [3]
and (ii) narrate the parable of the rich fool which followed. [9]
(b) What was Jesus teaching about wealth on this occasion? [6]
7 (a) Relate the occasion when Jesus was asked about the chief places in the kingdom for James and John.[12]
(b) Comment on the remarks Jesus made about true greatness. [6]
8 (a) Tell the parable in which three servants were given talents (NEB bags of gold) each according to his ability (NEB capacity). [12]
(b) What lessons did Jesus want his hearers to learn from this parable? [6]
9 (a) Describe the arrangements Judas made to betray Jesus, and where and how he did this. [8]
(b) What reasons may Judas have had for betraying Jesus? [6]
(c) What indications are there in the Gospels that Judas realised he had acted wrongly? [4]
10 Give details of how the following played a part in Jesus’ last hours:
(a) a cock crowing [5]
(b) a young man in a linen cloth [3]
(c) Herod [5]
(d) Pilate’s wife, [3]
and (e) Simon of Cyrene.[2]
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