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Paper 1 Luke and Acts 1–21:15 (Short-answer questions)
October/November 2006
1 hour 15 minutes
Candidates answer on the Question Paper.
No Additional Materials are required.
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Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in.
Write in dark blue or black pen.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
Answer all questions.
You should spend no longer than 35 minutes on Section A.
Where there are differences in quotations from the Bible,
NIV indicates New International Version,
RSV indicates Revised Standard Version.
At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level
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Section A (20 marks)
Answer all questions 1 to 10.
Answers in phrases or incomplete sentences are acceptable.
Each question carries 2 marks.
The Gospel of Luke
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(a) What town was Jesus in, when he read in the synagogue from the scroll of the prophet
Isaiah?
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(b) What was the people’s first reaction to Jesus on this occasion?
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(a) Whose house was Jesus in when he was anointed by a woman?
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(b) What did the house owner say to himself about the woman?
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(a) In the parable of the Lost Coin, what does the woman do when she finds the coin?
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(b) What does the lost coin in this parable refer to?
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(a) When the cock crowed and Jesus looked at Peter, what words of Jesus did Peter
remember?
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(b) What did Peter then do?
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According to the end of Luke’s Gospel, what two things did the disciples do after Jesus was
taken up to heaven (RSV parted from them)?
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Acts of the Apostles 1–21:15
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(a) What was the name of the temple gate where Peter and John healed a crippled
beggar?
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(b) What did the beggar do when he was healed?
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State two things the Acts of the Apostles tell us about Cornelius.
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(a) At Paphos, why did the proconsul send for Paul and Barnabas?
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(b) What happened to Elymas when he tried to oppose Paul and Barnabas?
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(a) Why did the Bereans (RSV Beroeans) examine the Scriptures when they heard Paul
preach?
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(b) Why did Paul have to leave Berea (RSV Beroea)?
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10 (a) What did Agabus do with Paul’s belt?
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(b) What did Agabus say the Holy Spirit had revealed about the owner of the belt?
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Section B (20 marks)
Answer all questions 11 to 14.
Each question carries 5 marks.
Keep your answers short.
Answers should be in complete sentences.
11 NIV
John answered them all, “I baptise you with water. But one more powerful than I will
come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
RSV
John answered them all, “I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is
coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
(Luke 3:16)
(a) To whom was John referring?
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(b) With what would this person baptise (RSV baptize)?
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(c) What did John say this person would also do?
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12 NIV
Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and
everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.”
RSV
And taking the twelve, he said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and
everything that is written of the Son of man by the prophets will be accomplished.”
(Luke 18:31)
(a) What things did Jesus say would be fulfilled (RSV accomplished)?
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(b) What was the reaction of the Twelve?
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(c) Why did they react like this?
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13 NIV
Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
RSV Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
(Acts 8:17)
(a) What did Simon the sorcerer do when he saw that the Spirit was given by the laying on
of hands?
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(b) What did Peter say in response?
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(c) What was Simon’s answer?
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14 NIV
“Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.”
RSV
“What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.”
(Acts 17:23)
(a) Where was Paul speaking when he said this?
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(b) What was it that was “unknown”?
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(c) What were the different ways in which the crowd reacted to Paul’s speech?
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