Determine the name of the book of the Bible for each clue listed below.
Then write the letters of that book in the 13 by 11 matrix using the following rules:
  1. Each word makes one right-angle turn somewhere along its length.
    But you must determine where each word makes this turn and in which direction.
  2. As a guide, the starting direction (i.e., the direction of the word before its right angle turn) of each answer is indicated by the letter given after the clue number.
  3. Words can go North, South, East, or West to start with.
    For example, 1W begins on square 1 and heads West.
  4. Each letter in the correctly completed grid appears in only one word.
  5. Enter the book of Acts as just one word -- ACTS.
  6. No duplicate names are used.   For example, there will be just one entry for 1 Peter and 2 Peter; similarly, JOHN will be entered just once in spite of the fact that there are four books with that name.
    So, the twenty-seven books of the New Testament will be represented by the twenty unique names.




Clues:
 
1W         The verse, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor" can be found in this gospel as well as the Gospel of Matthew.
 
2S This book refers to Jesus as a great high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
 
3E The first of two letters to these church members tell us that "you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night."
 
4S This book is a letter to Christians, warning them that, after becoming Christian, one cannot have a "license for immorality." This writer says, "Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life."
 
5W         Paul admonishes us in this letter, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
 
6S The verse, "I am the alpha and the omega" is found in this New testament book.
 
7S This gospel was written by a tax collector.
 
8W This book mentions that another disciple, Matthias, was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot (who had betrayed Jesus and then killed himself), so that the disciples again numbered twelve.
 
9E The verse, "the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts" is found in this New Testament book.
 
10W The verse, "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever" is found in the first of the two books with this name.
 
11S The parable of the prodigal son appears only in this gospel.
 
12N The verse, "Jesus wept" is found in this book.
 
13N Paul and Timothy write in this letter that we "have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority."
 
14W         Paul wrote to a man in this epistle concerning the man's slave Onesimus.
 
15N The verse most often quoted at weddings, "Love is patient and kind..." is found in the first of the two books with this name.
 
16W In this book, Paul points out his belief in predestination, stating "God, who set me apart from birth and called me by His grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me."
 
17E The verse, "I can do everything through Him who gives me strength" can be found in this letter from Paul and Timothy.
 
18N Paul's letter to his friend on the island of Crete begins with "Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior."
 
19N         The verse, "The love of money is the root of all evil" is found in this book.
 
20E In this letter from Paul, he makes the point that there is "one Lord, one faith, one baptism."
 

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