Across
- 2. Official teachings and practices that have been handed down from one generation to the next.
- 6. Religious faction who completely separated themselves from Jewish society and lived under strict religious observations.
- 10. The earliest written of the Four Gospels.
- 11. A words used to refer to the writers of the Four Gospels.
- 12. The promised figure that God would send to save his people; also means the Son of God.
- 15. The last of the books of the New Testament, sometimes called Apocalypse.
- 17. A solemn promise; a relationship.
- 19. The first of the patriarchs with whom God made a Covenant.
- 20. People sent by God to call out injustice and idolatry.
- 21. The last written of the Four Gospels.
- 22. The title given to Jesus that means Lord or Savior.
- 24. The cornerstone of the Law of Moses.
- 25. The great event in Israel's history when the Kingdom of Judah was destroyed and its people sent away to Babylon for about seventy years.
- 26. The Roman procurator of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea; he puts Jesus on trial.
- 27. The pivotal event of Christianity when Jesus returned to life after being dead for three days.
Down
- 1. Religious faction who took a middle position between the Sadducees and Essenes, and were popular with the people.
- 3. Religious faction of priests who made accommodations with the new Jewish leaders.
- 4. Four short books in the New Testament about the life and death of Jesus.
- 5. Another word for Covenant.
- 7. Descendants of the Northern Kingdom of Israel that survived the Assyrian Exile; they had different religious practices than the Jews.
- 8. A word meaning "father" or "leader of a family".
- 9. The name given to the land of Israel and Judah by the Greeks.
- 13. A Roman writer and lawyer who mentions Christ in his writings.
- 14. A Jewish historian who mentions Jesus in his writings.
- 16. another word for letter.
- 18. Luke's depiction of the life of the early Church.
- 23. A book attributed to Paul but possibly not written by him.