What is the New Testament (Double Jeopardy)
The entire New Testament was written in this type of "common" Greek.
What is Koine Greek?
Tradition says Matthew the apostle held this occupation before following Jesus.
What is tax-collector?
Early tradition, citing Papias, identifies Mark as a student of this apostle.
Who is Peter?
The "we" passages in this New Testament book are a main reason Luke is considered the author of the Gospel.
What is Acts?
This place where Jesus worshipped was first built by King Solomon and rebuilt by Herod the Great.
What is (Jerusalem's) Temple?
There are approximately this many Greek manuscripts of the New Testament.
What is almost 6,000?
"Synoptic," the term for Matthew, Mark, and Luke, literally means this.
What is "seen together"?
Of the four Gospels, Mark is this length in relation to the others.
What is the shortest?
Luke's Gospel is addressed to this person, who may have been a high priest or the son of one in Jerusalem.
Who is Theophilus?
The purpose of the synagogue in the land is this.
What is the reading and studying the commandments (Torah)?
Papyrus 52, dated to the early to mid 2nd century CE, contains John 18:31-33 from this Gospel.
What is the Gospel of John?
In Matthew 5:17, Jesus says he has come not to abolish the Law and the Prophets but to do this.
What is to fulfill them?
In Mark 5, Jesus' Aramaic words "Talitha cumi" mean this.
What is "little girl rise"?
The Greek word nomikos, used for the man who tests Jesus in Luke 10, means "a person having to do with" this.
What is the law?
Seen at Chorazin, the "bema" is the raised platform in the synagogue may have been used for this?
What is standing and reading the Torah Scroll?
This 2nd-century figure from Sardis is the first to use the terms "Old Testament" and "New Testament."
Who is Melito?
In Matthew 3:9, God can raise up children to Abraham from these, a wordplay on the Hebrew banim (sons) and avanim.
What are stones?
Derived from the Greek thaumaturgy, referring to the practical application of magic to effect change in the physical world, means this.
What wonder works or amazing works?
Jesus' reading at the Nazareth synagogue combines Isaiah 61 and Isaiah 42:7 with "to set at liberty those who are oppressed," which comes from this other chapter of Isaiah.
What is Isaiah 58?
This is the one of the names used for synagogue that were outside of the land of Israel?
Of the Roman tria nomina (three names), this term names the family name, after the praenomen (first) and the nomen (clan).
What is the cognomen (last)?
Matthew 1:23, calling the child "Emmanuel," quotes this prophet.
Who is Isaiah?
This Dead Sea Scroll, 11Q13, describes this figure who leads God's angels in the final battle and utilizes Isaiah 61:1 to describe his work.
Who is Melchizedek?
The Hebrew term behind "the favor of the Lord" appears in this many places in the entire Hebrew Scriptures, which is evidence of Jesus' education.
What is two?
In Matthew 23, Jesus says the scribes and Pharisees sit on this.
What is Moses' seat?