Gustave Doré’s engraving of the Sermon on the Mount, the crowd seated on the hillside

Jesus

of Nazareth, Whose acts here are taken only from the four Gospels

  • 6Axes
  • 16Cited acts
  • 3Axes matched on
  • 24Others

The record, drawn

Placed on 3 of 6

  • Pace recorded at both ends

    Acts firstWeighs first

  • Voice quick to speak up

    Says itHolds it

  • Lead more in front than alongside

    Out in frontAlongside

  • Conflict recorded at both ends

    ConfrontsReconciles

  • Reasons not placed

    Asks whyTakes it on trust

  • Plans leans to planning

    Plans aheadMeets the day

The text places Jesus on 3 of the 6, and on none of them far from the middle, so a wheel would have almost nothing to draw.

Both poles named on every rail

The six axes

In the hatched middle the quiz names neither pole.

Pace recorded at both ends

Acts firstWeighs first

Voice 20% toward Says it

Says itHolds it

Lead 20% toward Out in front

Out in frontAlongside

Conflict recorded at both ends

ConfrontsReconciles

Reasons not shown in the text

Asks whyTakes it on trust

Plans 20% toward Plans ahead

Plans aheadMeets the day

16 cited acts, grouped by axis

The moments behind each axis

Each line is one recorded act and the reference it is taken from. The sentence says what the person did; where it is in quotation marks it is verbatim from the World English Bible British Edition. An act listed here is evidence of how this person moved, not approval of it; read the passage for how it was received. On 2 the text shows both ends and they do not settle, so that axis is left out too — the acts for each end are printed under it.

Pace Acts first Weighs first

recorded at both ends

The text shows both ends. The recorded acts go one way and the other and do not settle, so this axis is left out when a reader is matched rather than counted as a position in the middle. Both ends are below.

Toward Acts first

  1. Mark 1:41-42 toward Acts first

    Moved with compassion, He stretched out His hand, touched the leper and said He wanted to, and the leprosy left him.

Toward Weighs first

  1. Luke 6:12-13 toward Weighs first

    He went out to the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God; when it was day He called His disciples and chose twelve of them.

Voice Says it Holds it

quick to speak up

  1. John 18:20 toward Says it

    Questioned by the high priest He said His teaching had all been done in public.

    I spoke openly to the world.
  2. Mark 8:32 toward Says it

    He spoke to them openly, and Peter took Him and began to rebuke Him.

    He spoke to them openly.
  3. Mark 15:5 toward Holds it

    Before Pilate He made no further answer, so that Pilate marvelled.

    But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marvelled.

Lead Out in front Alongside

more in front than alongside

  1. Mark 10:32 toward Out in front

    On the road up to Jerusalem He walked ahead of the Twelve and they followed.

    Jesus was going in front of them
  2. Mark 1:17 toward Out in front

    He told Simon and Andrew to come after Him, and said He would make them fishers for men.

    I will make you into fishers for men.
  3. Mark 3:13-14 toward Out in front

    He went up the mountain, called to Himself those whom He wanted, and appointed twelve to be with Him and to be sent out to preach.

  4. John 13:4-15 toward Alongside

    At supper He took a towel and a basin and washed the disciples' feet, then told them that He, their Lord and Teacher, had given them an example to follow.

  5. Mark 6:7 toward Alongside

    He called the Twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over unclean spirits.

Conflict Confronts Reconciles

recorded at both ends

The text shows both ends. The recorded acts go one way and the other and do not settle, so this axis is left out when a reader is matched rather than counted as a position in the middle. Both ends are below.

Toward Confronts

  1. John 2:15 toward Confronts

    He made a whip of cords, drove all out of the temple with the sheep and the oxen, poured out the money of the changers and overthrew their tables.

Toward Reconciles

  1. Luke 22:50-51 toward Reconciles

    When one of those with Him cut off the ear of the high priest's servant at the arrest, He touched the man's ear and healed him.

  2. John 21:15-17 toward Reconciles

    He asked Peter three times whether he loved Him, and each time told him to feed or tend His sheep.

Reasons Asks why Takes it on trust

not placed

Not placed on this axis. The reason is below. The axis is left out when a reader is matched, rather than counted as a position in the middle.

  1. Not placed

    The Gospels record Him asking questions among the teachers (Luke 2:46) and yielding to the Father's will in the garden (Matthew 26:42), and they also say He knew what was coming (John 18:4). Neither end of this axis describes that, so He is not placed on it.

Plans Plans ahead Meets the day

leans to planning

  1. Mark 14:13-16 toward Plans ahead

    He sent two disciples with instructions about a man with a pitcher and an upper room, and they found it as He had said.

  2. Mark 11:1-6 toward Plans ahead

    Near Jerusalem He sent two disciples into a village for a young donkey, telling them where it would be tied and what to say if anyone asked.

  3. Mark 5:30-34 toward Meets the day

    On the way to Jairus's house He stopped in the crowd, asked who had touched His clothes, and stayed until the woman had told Him all the truth.

By the same arithmetic the quiz uses

Nearest on the map

Distance between two sets of coordinates across every axis, on the same scale a reader's answers are measured on. No number is shown against a person, and nearness is not likeness: two people can land in the same band for different reasons.

  1. Tobit Closest
  2. Abraham
  3. Moses
  4. Abigail
  5. Gideon
  6. Ruth

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