THE FIRST TWENTY VERSES OF THE GOSPEL OF MARK.

1) The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ ______________________

(a) Son of God (b) Son of Man (c) Messiah (d) Saviour

2) As it is written in the prophet _____________

(a) Jeremiah (b) Ezekiel (c) Isaiah (d) Amos

3)  _______________ appeared in the wilderness proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

(a) Jesus Christ (b) John the Evangelist (c) John the Baptizer

4) People ... were baptized by him in the river _________

(a) Tiber (b) Euphrates (c) Galilee (d) Jordan

5) Now John was clothed with _________

(a) Trousers and a coat (b) a robe (c) camel’s hair

 6) John ate ______________

(a) Bread and fish (b) Only bread (c) wild berries (d) locusts and wild honey

7) John proclaimed I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with _________

(a) Fire (b) the Holy Spirit (c) Fire (d) Grace

8) Jesus was in the wilderness _____ tempted by Satan

(a) Seven days (b) Fourteen days (c) Forty days (d) Forty days and forty nights

9) As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw ____________________

(a) James and his brother Bartholomew (b) Judas Iscariot (c) Simon and his brother Andrew (d) Simon the Zealot