| A | B |
| Peter | the fisherman who doubts Jesus but b/c of his strong faith in love he is able to surpass in hatred |
| Matthew | tax collector/evangelist (gosple writer) |
| Thomas | a servant who was known as a doubter who was still asked by Jesus to be a disciple |
| Judas Iscariot | the man that betrayed Jesus then hung himself |
| the Zealots | a group that revolted against the Romans |
| the Pharisees | a group in conflict with Jesus, they were liberal in religion and conservative in politics |
| Garden of Gethsemane | the garden where jesus spent his last hours aftre he was comdemned to death |
| the Sanhedrin | a court-like group who was in charge fo Jewish law and faith who were liberal in polotics |
| the Sadducees | a priestly caste who worked out accomadations with the new Jewish politics |
| the Samaritans | people of the north shore who were despised b/c they fell away from God, they were the first rejected people |
| Nazareth | the place where Jesus grew up |
| Bethlehem | the place where Jesus was born |
| John the Baptist | Jesus' cousin who was killed by the Romans |
| Mary Magdalene | the prostetute who washed jesus' feet with her tears and dried them with her hair |
| Joseph of Arimathea | the guy that asked for Jesus' body after he was taken down from the cross |
| Lazarus | Jesus' friend in which Jesus rose him from the dead |
| Salome | herod's daughter who wanted john the baptists head |
| Herod the Great | a king at jesus time |
| Herod Antipas | a king that married his brothers wife and lusted for his niece, he also killed john the baptist for his niece |
| the Scribes | the people who wrote down the law and presented it to the Romans |
| Pontius Pilate | the ruler who condemned jesus to die, who chose jesus to die over the man that ahd killed a roman soldier |
| Barrabus | the man that had killed the roman soldier but was set free instead of jesus |
| Nicodermus | the roman soldier who had his servant cured by Jesus (100 men behind him) |
| the Good Centurion | the guy in the Sanhedrin who was on Jesus' side |
| the Passover | the supper that the Jews had as a rememberance supper of the last supper |