New World Translation
This is the year the revised edition of the New World Translation was released.
What is 2013?
I am known for my generous hospitality, including welcoming missionaries Paul, Silas, and Luke into my home. You may remember me as a seller of goods dyed a luxurious color.
Who is Lydia, "a seller of purple"? (Acts 16:14. 15)
This number can stand for the entirety or aggregate of something.
What is ten (10)?
Phillip started a Bible study with the Ethiopian eunuch by running alongside this vehicle and asking: “Do you actually know what you are reading?” (Acts 8:27-35)
What is a chariot?
On this day, 120 disciples of Jesus were filled with holy spirit, enabling them to preach in different languages.
What is Pentecost 33 C.E? (Acts 2:1-6)
In the revised edition, immediately following the Bible text is the “Table of the Books of the Bible,” the “Bible Words Index,” and this section, which helps the reader understand selected expressions according to their Bible-specific usage.
What is the “Glossary of Bible Terms"?
My name is a shortened form of the Hebrew name meaning “Gift of Jehovah", and I replaced Judas Iscariot as the 12th apostle.
Who is Matthias? (Acts 1:23-26)
The number seven (7) is often used to represent this idea.
What is completeness?
Jonah boarded a ship bound for this city instead of traveling to Nineveh where he had been assigned to preach.
What is Tarshish? (Jon 1:1-3; 4:2.).
This capital city remained an international cultural center, even after the empire it was part of, represented by abdomen and thighs of copper in Daniel's prophetic vision (Daniel 2:32, 39), ceased to be a world power.
What is Athens?
The entire New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was originally released in this many volumes, from 1950 to 1960.
What are six (6) volumes?
Despite claiming to serve God, we slandered God with false reasoning in our attempts to correct the faithful man Job.
Who are Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar? (Job 3-31)
This number seems to represent a complete, divine arrangement. For example, the vision of heaven given to the apostle John included a city with this amount of foundation stones. (Revelation 21:14)
What is twelve (12)?
The silversmiths who made miniature temples of what goddess created an uproar because the preaching of the apostle Paul interfered with their business.
Who is Artemis (Diana) of Ephesus? (Acts 19:23-28)
The length of time the resurrected Jesus was on earth before his ascension.
What is 40 days? (Acts 1:1-3)
In many contexts, the Hebrew word translated ________ corresponds to the common meaning of the English word. However, the same Hebrew word also has a positive connotation and may be used of the “zeal,” or protective ardor, that Jehovah shows for his servants or of his “requiring exclusive devotion.” (Exodus 34:14; 2 Kings 19:31; Ezekiel 5:13; Zechariah 8:2)
What is "jealousy"? (Proverbs 6:34; Isaiah 11:13)
I became the only woman who reigned on the throne in Judah by murdering all the royal offspring except for my grandson, Jehoash, who was hidden from me by the high priest.
Who is Athaliah? (2 Kings 11:1-3)
Several judgment or punishment periods were linked with this number.
What is forty (40)?
The dying patriarch Jacob, prophesied that "The scepter will not turn aside from Judah...until ______ comes" at Isaiah 49:10, indicating that the messiah would be born of the tribe of Judah.
Who is Shiloh?
Name the four watches of the night that the Jews used in Jesus' day.
What are the “late in the day” watch (sunset until about nine in the evening), the “midnight” watch (about nine o’clock until midnight), the “before dawn” (midnight until about three o’clock in the morning), and the “early in the morning” (expired at dawn, or about six o’clock in the morning)? (Mark 13:35)
Of the thousands of copies of Greek manuscripts in existence today, most were made at least two centuries after the originals were composed. By that time, those copying the manuscripts either replaced the Tetragrammaton with this Greek word meaning “Lord,” or they copied from manuscripts where this had already been done.
What is Kyʹri·os?
I am known by two names and am the only woman in the Bible that has the feminine form of the word “disciple” applied to her.
Who is Dorcas, also known as Tabitha? (Acts 9:36)
Ancient peoples had no concept of zero, giving rise to this arrangement of numbers, such as first (1st), second (2nd), third (3rd), tenth (10th), and hundredth (100th).
What is the ordinal arrangement?
At Acts 5:42, Luke 8:1, and Acts 20:20, the Greek word ka·taʹ describes this method that Jesus and his followers used to reach unbelievers.
What is the house-to-house ministry?
In October 607 B.C.E., Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians according to Bible chronology. (2 Kings 25:1, 8-10.) This marked the start of the period during which God allowed the nations to rule over the earth without interference from any kingdom that he had set up, represented by this phrase.
What is “seven times”? (Daniel 4:10-16)