PRIZE CROSSWORD No. 900 by Axe

Across

5 'When Paul and his companions had passed through ---------- and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica...' [Acts/NIV] (10) 7 'Afflicted city, lashed by ------ and not comforted...' [Isa/NIV] (6) 8 Ammonite king, first victim of th e united Israelites under Saul [1 Sam; 1 Chr] (6) 9 Egyptian Christian (4) 11 Sobriquet Matthew gave to the Messiah [KJV spelling] (8) 13 Territorial jurisdictions of bishops (8) 14 'When an impu re spirit comes out of a person, it goes thr ough ---- places seeking rest and does not find it' [Luke/NIV] (4) 15 Holy antiquities, wh ich have sur vived, at least in part, from the distant past (6) 17 Swiss theologian (15091564) wh ose tenets defined Presbyterianism (6) 19 Belief of adher ents of 17 who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects (10)

Down

1 '...let us consider how we may ---- one another on toward love and good deeds...' [Heb/NIV] (4) 2 Cathedrals or lar ge churches originally connected to monasteries (8) 3 'Hebron had been built seven years befor e ---- in Egypt' [Num/NIV] (4) 4 Place where the 'Spirit of Jesus' would not allow Paul and his followers to enter [Acts] (8) 5 Version of the Bible translated into English and completed in 1611 (either spelling) (10) 6 Doctrine of renunciation of worldly pleasures, so one can achieve a high spiritual state (10) 10 Brother along with Onesimus sent by Paul to Colos- sae [Col] (8) 12 'Here ar e the m en who ser ved, together with their sons: Heman, the --------, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel...' [1 Chr/NIV] (8) 16 'The rest were there to get on planks or on other pieces of the ----' [Acts/NIV] (4) 18 Grandmother of Timothy (4)

Solution to last week’s

Across: 1 Diocese, 5 Snail, 8 Nathanael, 9 Gat, 10 Haiti, 12 Temples, 13 Carmel, 14 Edicts, 16 Stephen, 19 Caleb, 21 Eli, 22 Nicodemus, 24 Heeds, 25 Ordinal. Down: 1 Dinah, 2 Oft, 3 Examine, 4 Exact, 5 Salim, 6 Angelical, 7 Lotuses, 11 Israelite, 13 Casteth, 15 Decided, 17 Hands, 18 Necho, 20 Basil, 23 Man.