Synoptic Gospels
Vocabulary
Who Wrote it?
Divine & Human
Good to know
100

The number of Synoptic Gospels in the Bible.

What is 3?

100

The Truth that the Son of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, became man and lived among us.

What is Incarnation?

100

His Gospel shows Jesus as the New Moses, teaching how to live out the law given to Moses from a mountain.

Who is Matthew?

100

Jesus' miracles show that He was this.

What is fully divine?

100
The word Gospel means this.

What is Good News?

200

These are the names of the Synoptic Gospels of the Bible.

What is Matthew, Mark, and Luke

200

The Son of God, Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.

What is Word of God?

200

His is the shortest of all the Gospels.

Who is Mark?

200

Writing about the birth and early life of Christ emphasize this.

What is the humanity of Jesus?

200

The names of the four Gospels.

What are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?

300

All Synoptic Gospels emphasize this, while also focusing on the humanity of Christ.

What is the divinity of Jesus?

300

Present the Good News of Jesus Christ from a similar point of view.

What are the Synoptic Gospels?

300

His Gospel has a lot of poetry and imagery.

Who is John?

300

We know that Jesus understands every emotion that we feel because we know He was this.

What is fully human?

300

The Synoptic Gospels rotate with this within the Church.

What is the Liturgical Year?

400

This Gospel is NOT included in the Synoptic Gospels.

What is the Gospel According to John?

400

Non-Jewish Christians being persecuted for their faith in Christ.

Who is a Gentile?

400

His is the only Gospel to include the parables of the Lost Sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son.

Who is Luke?

400

A word that means being fully God.

What is divine?

400

The first words of this Gospel are "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

What is the Gospel According to John?

500

Probably the first of the Synoptic Gospels written.

What is the Gospel according to Mark?

500

Short stories with a message

What is a parable?

500

His Gospel stresses the miracles of Christ as dramatic signs that He is the Son of God.

Who is John?

500

A story from the Bible that clearly shows Jesus' humanity.

What is (various choices) 

500

We meet God here.

What is in the Person of Jesus Christ?
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