The “OG’s” Impossible N.T. People Test

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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 1:3, ESV).

I believe you will need grace to keep your peace with the following “OG’s Impossible N.T. People Test”. Periodically, I post tests to check your Biblical acumen, thinking them difficult, but at 6:05 a.m. (Interruptions sent at 6 a.m.), I start getting texts saying, “I got 10 out of 10! or “Too easy!”

Typically, Paul includes the word “peace” in most of the introductions to his letters. This test intends to challenge your peace and make you fully understand that only by grace can we be saved (or pass this test).

1. I commend to you our sister , a servant of the church at Cenchreae.
   1. Priscilla
   2. Phoebe
   3. Julia

2. And a young man followed them, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.
   1. Mark
   2. Timothy
   3. Hermas

3. But I left sick in Miletus.
   1. Erastus
   2. Linus
   3. Trophimus

4. And a young man named went to sleep while Paul was preaching and fell from a second-story window and was taken up dead — until Paul prayed for him and he came back to life.
   1. Eutychus
   2. Jason
   3. Nigel

5. Boaz, the father of Obed by .
   1. Tamar
   2. Ruth
   3. Rahab

6. This man came to Jesus by night.
   1. Nicodemus
   2. Peter
   3. Judas

7. For was a man with a nature like ours.
   1. John
   2. Elisha
   3. Elijah

8. His name in Hebrew is , and in the Greek he is called .
   1. Cephas/Peter
   2. Saul/Paul
   3. Abaddon/Apollyon

9. Likes to put himself first.
   1. Ananias 
   2. Diotrephes
   3. Hymenaeus

10. “What is truth?”
    1. Jesus
    2. Thomas
    3. Pilate

(Answer key at bottom.)

That’s it — the “OG’s Impossible N.T. People Test”. If you got all 10, all creation is impressed; 9-8 you have the Holy Spirit’s blessing; 7-6 Billy Graham is impressed; 5-4 Pastor Grant is impressed; 3-2 perhaps someone impressed; 1-0 as Paul wrote, “Grace!” 

Final OG Note: All the names mentioned in the questions are in the New Testament except for one name. You get a bonus point if you can find it.

Till the next OG’s Impossible Test — grace, peace, and mercy!

Answer key: 1. (b); 2. (a); 3. (c); 4. (a); 5. (b); 6. (a); 7. (c); 8. (c); 9. (b); 10. (c)