Directions: Each of the following events or stories is in only one Gospel. Have the students work either on their own or with a partner to read through the Gospels and identify the Gospel, chapter, and verse for each.
- Jesus washes the feet of the Apostles at the Last Supper.
- Jesus raises back to life the son of the widow Nain.
- The wedding feast at Cana and the changing of water into wine.
- The eight Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount.
- A young man, who had his linen clothes torn away from in the Garden of Olives, runs away naked.
- The parable of the Good Samaritan.
- Jesus is laid in a manger at birth.
- Jesus makes a charcoal fire on the seashore for the disciples and cooks fish and bread.
- Jesus is crucified at nine o'clock in the morning.
- Jesus tells Martha that her sister Mary has chosen the better part.
- Jesus appears to the Apostles on a mountain in Galilee after he rises from the dead.
- A star appears over the place of Jesus' birth.
- The parable of the Prodigal or Lost Son.
- This Gospel begins at Jesus' baptism when he is thirty years old.
- Jesus tells the repentant criminal on the next cross: "Today you will be with me in paradise."
- Jesus reads the thoughts of the woman at the well.
- Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth who is pregnant with John the Baptist.
- The parable of the two sons, one of whom who worked for his father even though he originally refused.
- Jesus looks with love on a rich young man.
- Peter is the first to enter Jesus' empty tomb.
- Jesus weeps over Jerusalem before he cleanses the Temple.
- Jesus, Mary, and Joseph travel to Egypt to escape King Herod's death threat.
- The parable of the ten virgins waiting for the bridegroom.
- Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead after he has been lying four days in the tomb.
- Zacchaeus, the tax collector, comes down from the sycamore tree and has Jesus stay with him.
- Jesus saves the woman caught in adultery by saying, "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
- Pontius Pilate orders guards to be placed at Jesus' tomb.
- Jesus and the Twelve have their traveling expenses paid by a number of rich women.
- Jesus carried his cross all by himself, with no help.
- Vernonica wipes the face of Jesus while he is carrying the cross and receives an impression of his face on her veil.
Answers: 1. John 13:4-10; 2. Luke 7:11-17; 3. John 2:1-11; 4. Matthew 5:3-12; 5. Mark 14:51; 6. Luke 10: 29-37; 7. Luke 2:7; 8. John 21: 9; 9. Mark 15:25; 10. Luke 10:38-42; 11. Matthew 28:16; 12. Matthew 2:9; 13. Luke 15:11-32; 14. Mark 1: 9; 15. Luke 23: 43; 16. John 4:4-26; 17. Luke 1:39-45; 18. Matthew 21: 28-32; 19. Mark 10: 21; 20. John 20:1-6; 21. Luke 19:41; 22. Matthew 2:13-15; 23. Matthew 25:1-13; 24. John 11:1-44; 25. Luke 19:1-10; 26. John 8:7; 27. Matthew 27:63-66; 28. Luke 8:2-3; 29. John 19:17; 30. Not in any Gospel—legend.
