Books of the Bible
Disciple Descriptions
Holy Week
On the Map
Perilous Persecution
100

The book after Luke.

John

100

Denied knowing Jesus three times before the rooster crowed.

Peter

100

On this day, people waved palm branches and shouted praises as Jesus entered Jerusalem.

Palm Sunday

100

Jesus was born here.

Bethlehem

100

This person arrested Christians before Jesus called him to faith.

Saul/Paul

200

The last book of the Bible.

Revelation

200

A tax collector in his former life.

Matthew

200

Jesus instituted this sacrament on Holy Thursday.

The Lord's Supper / Holy Communion

200

This is where the disciples waited for Pentecost.

Jerusalem
200

The definition of persecution.

To suffer for what you believe.

300

The book after Galatians.

Ephesians

300

A doctor in his former life.

Luke

300

This is the place Jesus died on Good Friday.

Golgotha ("The Place of the Skull")

300

Jesus' first miracle took place here.

Cana

300

This was the first person to be killed for being a Christian.

Stephen
400

The book after 2 Thessalonians.

1 Timothy.

400

Also called Didymus ("the twin").

Thomas

400

Jesus went here to pray shortly before he was arrested.

The garden of Gethsemane.

400

Jesus walked on water here.

The Sea of Galilee.

400

This was a secret symbol used by early Christians when they had to meet secretly.

Fish (Icthus)

500

The book after Titus.

Philemon

500

This disciple refers to himself as "the one Jesus loved" in the Bible.

John

500

These people buried Jesus.

Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.


500

Philip met the Ethiopian man here (between two cities).

On the road from Jerusalem to Gaza.

500
This person helped convince the early Christians that Paul had truly come to faith and could be trusted now. They later worked together as missionaries.

Barnabus