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Bible crossword.
The Bible crossword for 16 October 2026, with 12 clues drawn from Scripture. Every answer is a word from a verse of the King James Version. Solve it, or reveal it, and the verse appears beneath its clue. Play on screen or print it.
Across
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Luke 1:57
Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.
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John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
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Jonah 3:5
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
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Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
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Matthew 10:2
Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
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John 9:1
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
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1 Samuel 17:40
And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
Down
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Jonah 1:17
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
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Matthew 5:10
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Jonah 4:6
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
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Luke 10:32
And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
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1 Samuel 17:4
And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.