The New Testament -- Is Your Number Up? (Part 2) Quiz

Answer: 99

Scripture clearly states that when a sinner repents of his/her sins, there is extreme joy in heaven. In other words, Jesus says, no one can be too tainted with sin to enter Christendom.

Answer: 4

The Pharisees, or church leaders of the day, express outrage about Jesus associating with Zacchaeus, because tax collectors work for the Romans and are seen as the worst of sinners. Zacchaeus, however, vows that he wants to change his life around. And, to this end, he tells Jesus he will repay everyone four times the amount if he cheated anyone.

Answer: 12

Scripture states the woman has extreme faith and is healed by simply touching Jesus' cloak: "Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself, 'If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.' Jesus turned and saw her. 'Take heart, daughter,' he said, 'your faith has healed you.' And the woman was healed from that moment."

Answer: 1

After encountering the 10 lepers on the border between Galilee and Samaria, Jesus tells them to present themselves to the priests. After the lepers depart to see the priests, they are healed. Verses 15-19 state: "One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.

He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him -- and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, 'Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?' Then he said to him, 'Rise and go; your faith has made you well'."

Answer: About 120

The church was indeed small at this point in time, but it would grow exponentially over the years, largely because of the disciples going to the ends of the known world preaching a resurrected Christ.

Answer: 9

The chapter is exquisitely written, with the word 'love' appearing nine times. There can be no mistaking the stock Paul puts on love. Here's how the first three verses start: "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing."

Answer: 5

John is credited with writing five books: the Gospel according to John, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John and Revelation.

Answer: 7

It is agreed to appoint seven disciples for the Grecian Jews, because the Hebraic Jews have apparently been overlooking the Grecian widows in the distribution of food. Acts 6:6 states that the chosen are "Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism."

Answer: 7

The seven churches are named in verse 11: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.

Answer: 12

Verses 12 and 13 state: "When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, 'Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.' So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten." It's almost as if God has a sense of humour.

Here we have 12 doubting disciples and, at the end of the feeding of the massive crowd (estimated to be 15,000 when women and children are included in the figure), the disciples are able to fill 12 baskets -- one for each.

In verse 7, Phillip expresses the sentiment that eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite. Yet, they end up with 12 baskets of food left over.