His mother, and 'earthly father' Joseph were away on holiday when He was born
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They were away from home on a Jewish religious observance, or pilgrimage
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For administrative reasons (in an age long before modern telecommunications), everyone living under the Roman Empire had to go periodically to their ancestral hometown to be registered in a Census
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King Herod of Israel had heard of Jesus' birth, so Joseph and Mary were warned by an angel to go and have the baby somewhere else
Q.2.
In Jesus' day, as now, within traditional Judaism there were large numbers of complex and detailed rules for holy living. Someone once asked Jesus what was His simple key to living a Godly life, and, in the proverbial nutshell, He summarised the Ten Commandments in which of the following ways?
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'Love God and be true to yourself'
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'Love God as very best you can, and love those around you as dearly as you love yourself'
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'Do unto others as you would have them do to you'
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'Honour God and commit no crime'
Q.3.
A smart young man once challenged Jesus, to pin down what He meant by His sweeping encouragement to 'love others'. Jesus' response was to tell one of His famous, illustrative stories: which one?
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The Parable of the Sower
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The Parable of the Lost Sheep
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The Parable of the Prodigal Son
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The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Q.4.
Which, according to the Gospels, was the first Miracle that Jesus performed which showed His mastery over nature and His abundant generosity?
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The Feeding of the Five Thousand
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'Water into wine' at the Wedding in Cana (Galilee)
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The Miraculous Draft of Fish
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Stilling the storm at night on the Sea of Galilee
Q.5.
Conversely, what was the LAST healing miracle reportedly done by Jesus ~ if, for present purposes, we 'count out' the Crucifixion and Resurrection themselves, nor anything following those?
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He restored the severed ear of one of the officials who had come to arrest him by night in the Garden of Gethsemane, after one of His disciples had struck out with a sword
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He raised a twelve-year-old girl who had died
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He restored sight to a blind member of the Jewish Assembly
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He healed a lame man on His way into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
Q.6.
In the Parable of the Sower, what do the seeds represent?
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People
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God's Word
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Sinners
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Saints
Q.7.
Which of the Disciples (originally named Simon) seems to have been closest to Jesus, despite a number of well-intentioned but impulsive blunders, and was given authority as 'the rock on which I shall found my Church'?
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Matthew
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Mark
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Peter
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Bartholomew
Q.8.
A surprising number of women called Mary appear to have played parts in Jesus' earthly life. Which of the following is NOT recorded in the Bible?
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The (Blessed) Virgin Mary, His mother
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Mary of Magdala ('Magdalene'), mentioned by name 12 times across all 4 Gospel accounts
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Mary the reformed prostitute, who washed His feet with her tears, and then dried them using her hair
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Mary of Bethany, sister of Martha (busy in the kitchen) and Lazarus (whom Jesus reportedly raised from death)
Q.9.
The only Gospel story in which we see 'an angry Jesus' is of the occasion when ...
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The Disciples lacked faith that He could calm an overnight storm on the Sea of Galilee
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He went on the rampage against the commercial dealers within the Temple precincts at Jerusalem
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None of the Disciples could, or would, stay up and awake to pray with Him in the Garden of Gethsemane
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The Disciples were trying to hurry him along to heal someone dangerously ill, yet He stopped to talk to a woman who had drawn healing power from the hem of His cloak as He was passing
Q.10.
Besides raising His voice on such occasions (as in Question 9), Jesus was also entirely unashamed to show his emotions by other means. The shortest verse in the whole Bible, in virtually any language or translation, is John 11:35 ~ usually rendered as 'Jesus wept'. Leaving aside the fact that the verse-divisions themselves are not intrinsic to the original text, this detail alone brings the story to a surprising and poignant pause. But what was the cause of His tears on this occasion?
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The death of the brother Lazarus, within a family of good friends of His at Bethany
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When nobody from a group of sick people that He had told to 'go and wash and be healed', had bothered to come back and thank Him
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That when the morning cockerel crowed, He knew that by now, as He had predicted, even His staunchest disciple Peter would have said three times over that he had no connection with Jesus
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That Judas Iscariot would not be talked out of betraying His whereabouts to the authorities
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