3. Tick the box! In each of the following, say whether it is true or false.
True
1. Maximilian Kolbe was a Protestant pastor in the USA. 2. Oscar Romero was a Catholic archbishop in El Salvador. 3. Manche Masemola was an Anglican lay woman in South Africa.
4. Lucien Tapiedi was a lay member of the Anglican Communion in Papua New Guinea.
5. Wang Zhimang was a Lutheran minister in Germany. 6. Jesus’s disciples expected his public ministry to end in his death.
7. Jesus’s disciples believed that his public ministry would end with him freeing them from Roman rule and setting up an independent Jewish kingdom.
8. It was only after the events of Holy Week that Jesus’s disciples came to understand the meaning of all he had said and done during his public ministry.
9. Jesus’s teachings challenged everything the Pharisees believed in. 10. Jesus called the Pharisees hypocrites. 11. The Pharisees told Jesus to be quiet and he agreed to do so.
12. By challenging the power of the Sadducees and the Pharisees, Jesus was engaged in a conflict with authority.
13. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus were two Sadducees who defended Jesus.
14. Jesus overturned the tables of the money-changers and drove them from the Temple precinct.
15. The Sadducees did not know that the money-changers and the animal traders were working together to rip off pilgrims at the Temple.
16. Although the Sadducees and the Pharisees were bitter rivals, they united against Jesus because he had publicly challenged them.
17. The Sanhedrin feared that arresting Jesus in daylight would provoke a riot, so they decided to arrest him after dark.
18. Judas Iscariot was forced by the Sanhedrin to betray Jesus. 19. Judas was paid thirty pieces of gold for betraying Jesus.
20. When Judas heard that Jesus had been condemned to death, he asked for more money.