1985
Colors in the Bible
November 1985


“Colors in the Bible,” Friend, Nov. 1985, 26

Colors in the Bible

Crossword puzzle

Across

  1. Color of robe soldiers put on Jesus (John 19:2)

  2. “Though your sins be as _________, they shall be as white as snow” (Isa. 1:18)

  3. Color of “cattle among the sheep” (Gen. 30:32)

  4. Color with “blue, and purple, and scarlet,” of Aaron’s ephod (Ex. 39:5)

  5. “Yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove … her feathers with ________ gold” (Ps. 68:13)

Down

  1. Mordecai’s “royal apparel of ______ and white” (Esth. 8:15)

  2. Color of horse at opening of third seal (Rev. 6:5)

  3. When Jesus fed the multitude, He had them “sit down by companies upon the _____ grass” (Mark 6:39)

  4. “Though they be red like ______, they shall be as wool” (Isa. 1:18)

  5. “Behold a man riding upon a _____ horse” (Zech. 1:8)

  6. “Is there any taste in the ______ of an egg?” (Job 6:6)

Answers:

  • Across—(3) purple, (5) scarlet, (7) brown, (10) gold, (11) yellow. Down—(1) blue, (2) black, (4) green, (6) crimson, (8) red, (9) white.