Bible crossword puzzle: Jesus -- The mediator of the new covenant
Based on
material in chapter 19, Discovering the Bible by Alex Varughese
Challenge: Can you solve this puzzle even if you do not have the book by
Varughese?
ACROSS
- 1 A teaching method Jesus often used to illustrate the kingdom of God
- 6 The Gospel that stands apart from the other three in its wording, structure and
general characteristics
- 9 King over Palestine at the time of Jesus' birth
- 10 Town where
Jesus grew up
- 11 A First Century method of execution reserved for non-Romans, revolutionaries,
the lowest classes, and the most dangerous criminals
- 12 The way scholars label the issue of accounting for the similarities and
differences between the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
- 13 Greek word that means "gospel"
DOWN
- 2 Place where the Old Testament prophet Micah had said that the Messiah would
be born
- 3 The son of Herod the Great who executed John the Baptist
- 4
The high Jewish council in Jerusalem which charged Jesus with blasphemy because He identified
Himself as the Son of Man of Daniel 7:13 and had declared that He would be seated at the right
hand of God and coming on the clouds of heaven
- 5 Roman governor who
condemned Jesus to death under pressure from the Jewish Sanhedrin
- 7 Physical demonstrations by Jesus showing that the Kingdom of God had
come
- 8 The label for the way in which the story of Jesus was passed on until it was
finally written down
This crossword puzzle was created for use in the course Introduction to Biblical Literature.
The words and clues come from the textbook Discovering the Bible: Story and Faith of the
Biblical Communities edited by Alex Varughese and published by what is now called The
Foundry.
-- Howard Culbertson,
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