Answer: tax collector
Matthew went from being a hated tax collector to bringing other tax collectors and sinners to Jesus.
From Quiz: The Gospel of Matthew
Answer: sleeping
Jesus went off to pray and asked the disciples to watch him and pray. When he returned they were all asleep. He left again to pray the same prayer and when he returned the disciples were asleep again. He left once more to pray and when he returned the disciples were still sleeping. He said, "Are you still sleeping? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going. See, my betrayer is at hand." (Matthew 26:45-46)
From Quiz: From the Upper Room to the Grave and Back Again
Answer: pure in heart
The word "pure" occurs over 150 times in the Old Testament, to describe both ceremonial and moral purity. Meaning no tainting of any kind.
From Quiz: The Beatitudes
Answer: Sinners to repentance
This is from Matthew 9:13. Jesus wanted everyone to be saved (he still does), yet some of the righteous thought bad of Jesus for having anything to do with the sinners. Sadly the world still thinks that way today, so that a Christian being seen with a sinner sometimes is the talk of the town. But how can a sinner come to know Jesus if the Christian doesn't tell them? Think about it!
From Quiz: Matthew 101
Answer: Salt
Salt was used in Biblical times to keep food from decaying. In covenants, salt was used to demonstrate the unbreakable bond between the two groups in the covenant. Whereas salt symbolized goodness, salt was also used to make fertile ground barren by sprinkling it on the ground. Israelites took their salt mostly from the Dead Sea, which contained a high concentration of salt. When Jesus told the crowd during his Sermon the Mount that He considers them to be the salt of the earth, He was telling the people and His disciples that He wanted them to influence those around them just as salt savors an entire meal.
From Quiz: Bible Literacy 4: Sermon on the Mount
Answer: Little children
See Matthew 11: 25.
In this passage, Jesus was warning people of the consequences of ignoring his teaching.
From Quiz: Biblical Wise Guys
Answer: A childless woman who had been widowed seven times and then died
Their story is about a woman who marries seven brothers, one after another, and they all keep dying on her. She is left in the end with no child, and she dies too -- as the story goes. This is supposed proof for the idea that there cannot be a resurrection. (See Matthew 22:24-28.)
From Quiz: Outwit the Master
Answer: when they say "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord"
The answer is found in Matthew 23:39.
"For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."
(Here Jesus is quoting Psalm 118:26.)
From Quiz: Mr. Levi...Mr. Matthew...Despised Tax Man
Answer: Terms used in writing
A jot is the long stem of a lower case i or j and derives from the Greek letter, iota, regarded as being the smallest of all letters. A tittle is the even smaller dot that sits on top of the jot. What Jesus is saying, therefore, is that not even the very smallest part of the Law can ever be disregarded. Exactly the same idea is carried into two equivalent English phrases - "not one jot of difference" and "not one iota of difference" - meaning that there is not even the very smallest difference.
The terms are, of course, English and contemporary to the writing of the King James translation. The actual Greek words used by Matthew are iota and keraia.
From Quiz: Quizzing the New Testament : Matthew
Answer: fearful, faith
Matthew 8:26 says, "And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm."
Faith is a common theme throughout the Bible. At one point Jesus tells his disciples that if they had the faith of a mustard seed (which is a very small seed) they could move mountains. In chapter 14, when Peter is walking on the water, he loses faith and starts to sink, and Jesus asks him why he has so little faith.
From Quiz: The First of the Gospels
