Foundations of Religion - Christianity SECTION B 2. Say what it means!
(a) Gospel means _______________________________________________________ . (b) An evangelist is ______________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ .
(c) Divine inspiration means that ____________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ .
3. Tick the box! In each of the following, say whether it is true or false.
True
1. The Gospels offer us a biography of Jesus in the modern sense of the word.
2. Mark was a missionary who travelled with St Peter to Rome. 3. Matthew was a Greek doctor who worked as a missionary with St Paul.
4. Luke was one of the original twelve apostles. 5. John was one of the original twelve apostles. 6. The first Gospel to be written was the Gospel of Luke. 7. All the Gospels were written in the latter half of the 2nd century CE.
8. The Gospels of Mark and Luke were most likely written by their students.
9. Each evangelist wrote his own version of Jesus’s story.
10. The main focus of the four Gospels is to explain the meaning and importance of Jesus’s teaching, miracles, death and resurrection.
11. The Synoptic Gospels do not agree on what Jesus said and did or when that happened.
12. The Gospel of John is a Synoptic Gospel. False
