Matthew
Matthew alone names this prophet in connection with the potter's field, creating a famous attribution problem.
Answer: Who is Jeremiah?
This adverb appears so frequently in Mark that it has become one of the Gospel's stylistic trademarks.
Answer: What is "immediately" (euthys)?
This pair of women sing hymns that frame Luke's infancy narrative.
Answer: Who are Mary and Elizabeth?
Jesus turns water into wine at this event, his first sign in John's Gospel.
Answer: What is the wedding at Cana?
This Gospel is generally considered the earliest according to the majority scholarly view.
Answer: What is Mark?
This title for Jesus appears at key moments in Matthew's narrative and culminates in the Great Commission's declaration of authority.
Answer: What is "Son of God"?
Scholars use this term for Jesus' repeated commands that demons, disciples, and beneficiaries of miracles remain silent about his identity.
Answer: What is the Messianic Secret?
Luke places Jesus' rejection at Nazareth much earlier than Mark does in order to emphasize this aspect of Jesus' mission.
Answer: What is the prophetic mission to outsiders/Gentiles?
This man comes to Jesus by night and hears that one must be "born again."
Answer: Who is Nicodemus?
Matthew and Luke share a version of this prayer absent from Mark.
Answer: What is the Lord's Prayer?
Matthew structures Jesus' teaching into this number of major discourse blocks.
Answer: What is five?
Only Mark records the brief episode involving this mysterious figure fleeing Gethsemane.
Answer: Who is the naked young man?
Luke's genealogy traces Jesus back to this figure.
Answer: Who is Adam?
Jesus raises this man from the dead shortly before his own passion.
Answer: Who is Lazarus?
Only Mark preserves Jesus' cry of dereliction entirely in this language before translating it.
Answer: What is Aramaic?
Only Matthew records this miracle connected with the moment of the death of Jesus.
Answer: What is the resurrection of the saints (Matt 27:52-53)?
At the crucifixion, this unlikely figure becomes the first human in Mark to explicitly identify Jesus as God's Son after his death.
Answer: Who is the Roman centurion?
Only Luke includes this saying from the cross. Answer: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Answer: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Instead of instituting the Lord's Supper, John records Jesus performing this act for his disciples at the Last Supper.
Answer: What is washing the disciples' feet?
In John, this disciple cuts off the ear of the high priest's servant.
Answer: Who is Peter?
Matthew's genealogy is arranged around this symbolic numerical pattern.
Answer: What is three groups of fourteen generations?
In some manuscripts of Mark, which part of Mark is included that most Bibles leave out?
Answer: What is the ending
Luke places Jesus' rejection at Nazareth much earlier than Mark does in order to emphasize this aspect of Jesus' mission.
Answer: What is the prophetic mission to outsiders/Gentiles?
John's passion chronology implies that Jesus dies at the very time these animals are being slaughtered.
Answer: What are Passover lambs?
The inscription on the cross appears in this number of languages according to John.
Answer: What are three languages?