Here are the answers to yesterday’s ‘Who Said That?’ quiz, taken from my book Ask Me Another. How did you get on?
1. And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways – Zechariah (Luke 1:76)
2. If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless – James (1:26)
3. In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets – Jesus (Matthew 7:12)
4. You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do – Stephen (Acts 7:51)
5. O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me – Job (29:2)
6. Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us? – The two disciples on the Emmaus Road (Luke 24:32)
7. Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water – Peter (Matthew 14:28).
8. Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints in Jerusalem; and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who invoke your name – Ananias (Acts 9:13)
9. We have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us – Paul (2 Corinthians 4:7)
10. Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptised? – The Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:37)
11. I have sinned by betraying innocent blood – Judas Iscariot (Matthew 27:4)
12. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act and do not delay! For your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people bear your name – Daniel (9:19)
13. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us – Paul (Romans 8:18)
14. I will not let you go unless you bless me – Jacob (Genesis 32:26)
15. Are you so quickly persuading me to become a Christian? – Herod Agrippa (Acts 26:28)