The Curtain
The curtain separating the Holy Place from this inner room was torn when Jesus died.
Answer: What is the Holy of Holies?
This Roman officer declared, “Truly this man was the Son of God.”
Answer: Who is the centurion?
These followers of Jesus remained watching from a distance at the cross.
Answer: Who are the women?
This sacred object once stood in the Holy of Holies but was missing in the Second Temple.
Answer: What is the Ark of the Covenant?
Mark 1:1 calls Jesus this title.
Answer: What is the Son of God?
The direction the temple veil tore, showing it was God's action.
Answer: What is top to bottom?
The Gospel that begins by declaring Jesus the Son of God and ends with the centurion confessing it.
Answer: What is the Gospel of Mark?
One woman at the cross who had been delivered from seven demons.
Answer: Who is Mary Magdalene?
This Babylonian king destroyed Jerusalem and the first temple in 586 BC.
Answer: Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
The disciple who confessed Jesus as the Christ in Mark 8:29.
Answer: Who is Peter?
Only this person could enter the Holy of Holies, and only once a year.
Answer: Who is the High Priest?
Mark says the centurion made his confession after seeing this about Jesus’ death.
Answer: What is how He breathed His last / the manner of His death?
These women witnessed three events: the crucifixion, the burial, and this event.
Answer: What is the resurrection / empty tomb?
The Jewish historian who recorded that the Holy of Holies was empty.
Answer: Who is Flavius Josephus?
According to Mark 8:34, disciples must do this to follow Jesus.
Answer: What is take up their cross?
According to Hebrews 10:20, the veil symbolized this part of Christ.
Answer: What is His flesh/body?
This Roman military officer typically commanded about this many soldiers.
Answer: What is about 100 soldiers?
The region where these women originally followed Jesus before coming to Jerusalem.
Answer: What is Galilee?
Hebrews says believers now have this because of Christ’s sacrifice.
Answer: What is access to God?
Mark 14:50 says the disciples did this when Jesus was arrested.
Answer: What is fled / ran away?
This Old Testament ritual allowed the high priest to enter the Holy of Holies.
Answer: What is the Day of Atonement?
Early church tradition gives the centurion this name.
Answer: Who is Longinus?
The Greek word meaning “to serve” or “minister,” describing what the women did for Jesus.
Answer: What is diakoneō?
Revelation 21 says in the new creation there will be no temple because this is its temple.
Answer: Who is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb?
This confession at the cross mirrors Mark’s opening declaration about Jesus.
Answer: What is “Truly this man was the Son of God”?