Quiz 8.

John, 9

1.As he went along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2.His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should have been born blind?’ 3.’Neither he nor his parents sinned,’ Jesus answered, ‘he was born blind so that the works of God might be revealed in him. 4.’As long as day lasts we must carry out the work of the one who sent me; the night will soon be here when no one can work. 5.As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world.’ 6.Having said this, he spat on the ground, made a paste with the spittle, put this over the eyes of the blind man, 7.and said to him, ‘Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam’ (the name means ‘one who has been sent’). So he went off and washed and came back able to see. 8.His neighbours and the people who used to see him before (for he was a beggar) said, ‘Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?’ 9.Some said, ‘Yes, it is the same one.’ Others said, ‘No, but he looks just like him.’ The man himself said, ‘Yes, I am the one.’ 10.So they said to him, ‘Then how is it that your eyes were opened?’ 11.He answered, ‘The man called Jesus made a paste, daubed my eyes with it and said to me, “Go off and wash at Siloam”; so I went, and when I washed I gained my sight.’ 12.They asked, ‘Where is he?’ He answered, ‘I don’t know.’ 13.They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14.It had been a Sabbath day when Jesus made the paste and opened the man’s eyes, 15.so when the Pharisees asked him how he had gained his sight, he said, ‘He put a paste on my eyes, and I washed, and I can see.'”

Matthew  14

“It was two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by some trick and have him put to death. 2.For they said, ‘It must not be during the festivities, or there will be a disturbance among the people.’ 3.He was at Bethany in the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a virulent skin-disease; he was at table when a woman came in with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the ointment on his head. 4.Some who were there said to one another indignantly, ‘Why this waste of ointment? 5.Ointment like this could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor’; and they were angry with her. 6.But Jesus said, ‘Leave her alone. Why are you upsetting her? What she has done for me is a good work. 7.You have the poor with you always, and you can be kind to them whenever you wish, but you will not always have me. 8.She has done what she could: she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial. 9.In truth I tell you, wherever throughout all the world the gospel is proclaimed, what she has done will be told as well, in remembrance of her.’ 10.Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, approached the chief priests with an offer to hand Jesus over to them. 11.They were delighted to hear it, and promised to give him money; and he began to look for a way of betraying him when the opportunity should occur. 12.On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was sacrificed, his disciples said to him, ‘Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?'”

Matthew 56

“56.Now all this happened to fulfil the prophecies in scripture. Then all the disciples deserted him and ran away. 57.The men who had arrested Jesus led him off to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58.Peter followed him at a distance right to the high priest’s palace, and he went in and sat down with the attendants to see what the end would be. 59.The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus, however false, on which they might have him executed. 60.But they could not find any, though several lying witnesses came forward. Eventually two came forward 61.and made a statement, ‘This man said, “I have power to destroy the Temple of God and in three days build it up.” ‘ 62.The high priest then rose and said to him, ‘Have you no answer to that? What is this evidence these men are bringing against you?’ 63.But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, ‘I put you on oath by the living God to tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.’ 64.Jesus answered him, ‘It is you who say it. But, I tell you that from this time onward you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.’ 65.Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, ‘He has blasphemed. What need of witnesses have we now? There! You have just heard the blasphemy. 66.What is your opinion?’ They answered, ‘He deserves to die.’ 67.Then they spat in his face and hit him with their fists; others said as they struck him, 68.’Prophesy to us, Christ! Who hit you then?’ 69.Meanwhile Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came up to him saying, ‘You, too, were with Jesus the Galilean.’ 70.But he denied it in front of them all. ‘I do not know what you are talking about,’ he said. 71.When he went out to the gateway another servant-girl saw him and said to the people there, ‘This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.’ 72.And again, with an oath, he denied it, ‘I do not know the man.’ 73.A little later the bystanders came up and said to Peter, ‘You are certainly one of them too! Why, your accent gives you away.’ 74.Then he started cursing and swearing, ‘I do not know the man.’ And at once the cock crowed, 75.and Peter remembered what Jesus had said, ‘Before the cock crows you will have disowned me three times.’ And he went outside and wept bitterly.”