Easy Bible Quiz about Bible Characters and Bible People.

Can you answer this easy Bible quiz about Bible characters?

Here is an easy Bible quiz with answers about people in the Bible.

Who founded the Judaic religion?

a. Abraham.
b. Adam.
c. Jesus.

a. Abraham.
He is the patriarch of the religion.
Abraham is the founding father of the original Hebrew religion of Judaism, which started in Judah.
Who is the Messiah?

a. Abraham.
b. Elijah.
c. Jesus.

c. The Messiah is Jesus.
He was the anointed one who delivers the sinful ones from their sin.
Who was the king when Jesus was born?

a. Solomon.
b. Herod.
c. Saul.

b. Herod.
King Herod the Great was king when Jesus was born.
He wanted to kill Jesus.
Who hated the disciples but experienced conversion on the way to Damascus?

a. Judas.
b. Saul.
c. John.

b. Saul.
Being a Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus saw to the killing of many believers, including the first martyr, Stephen.
While traveling to Damascus, he was met by a heavenly being most people believe was Jesus.
The encounter resulted in Saul becoming a believer and an apostle.
Saul's name was changed to Paul.
Paul did not personally know Jesus and was not an Apostle.
Who brought gold, myrrh, and frankincense to young Jesus?

a. Shepherds.
b. Priests.
c. Magi.

c. Magi.
An unknown number of wise and educated men, known as the Magi, visited Jesus sometime after his birth.
A star in the east guided them.
They brought three expensive gifts.
Tradition assumes that if there were 3 gifts, there must have been 3 Magi.
Magi is the plural form of the word, meaning two or more.
Magus is the singular form of the word, meaning just one.
The Bible does not specify the number of magi.
Some scholars say that there may have been more than three Magi.
Who built a giant boat called the Ark?

a. Adam.
b. Noah.
c. Moses.

b. Noah.
God gave Noah instructions to construct a massive boat.
The purpose was to save humanity and the animal world from the destruction of the world by a massive flood.
How many people were on the Ark?

a. Two.
b. Four.
c. Eight.

c. Eight.
There were eight people on the Ark.
Noah, his three sons, and the four wives were on the Ark.
Who did God transport to Nineveh using a big fish?

a. Jonah.
b. Daniel.
c. David.

a. Jonah.
God commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh to deliver a message.
Jonah tried to run away.
God dispatched a large fish to capture Jonah and deliver him to Nineveh.
It took three days to make the trip.
The fish spit Jonah out on the beach near Nineveh.
Who entered the lion's den?

a. Sampson.
b. Daniel.
c. David.

b. Daniel.
Daniel was forced into a lion's den at the command of King Darius, the Mede.
Darius was tricked into giving the order by his jealous underlings.
As we know from Sunday school, the lions behaved like kittens and Daniel was not hurt.
Which prophet did God take up to heaven in a fiery chariot?

a. Enoch.
b. Moses.
c. Elijah.

c. Elijah.
Something resembling a fiery chariot transported Elijah directly to heaven.
Elijah did not die.
Elisha was with him at the time and assumed Elijah's ministry.
What did God give Moses when he was on Mount Sinai?

a. A staff with a serpent's head.
b. The Ten Commandments.
c. The Beatitudes.

b. Ten Commandments.
Moses received two stone tablets during the 40 days he was with God.
The tablets contained the original Ten Commandments.
It is believed that God himself engraved them with his finger.
How many sets of the commandments did God make for Moses?

a. One.
b. Two.
c. Three.

b. Two.
Moses brought down the first set of tablets from the mountain.
Upon his arrival at the camp, he witnessed the Israelites having a party, and they were worshiping a golden calf idol.
Moses was so angry that he threw the commandments to the ground and broke them into pieces.
Because the original tablets were broken, Moses had to trek back up the mountain to ask God to create a second set of tablets.
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How did Aaron explain to Moses about how and why the golden calf was made?

a. "An angel came and told us to make a golden idol."
b. "The devil showed up and forced us to make a golden calf."
c. "There was this fire, and the people threw some gold into it, and out came this calf."

c. There was this fire.
People threw some gold into it, and out came this calf.
Really!
Exodus 32.
When she looked back at Gomorrah, she turned into a pillar of salt.

a. Eve.
b. Ruth.
c. Lot's wife.

c. Lot's wife.
She disobeyed God.
Lot's wife looked back at Sodom during its destruction by God.
The result was that she turned into something like a pillar of salt.
Who slew 1,000 Philistines with a single blow to the jawbone?

a. David. He faced the Philistines during a battle.
b. Samson, after the Israelites gave him to the Philistines.
c. Stephen, who was a disciple, was attacked by the Philistines when they came to stone him.

b. Samson.
He killed 1,000 Philistines out of revenge for their killing his wife.
His brothers sold him into slavery.

a. Esau.
b. Joseph.
c. Benjamin.

b. Joseph.
The brothers were jealous of a coat that their father had given Joseph.
His jealous brothers sold Joseph into slavery to slave traders.
Joseph was purchased by an Egyptian guard named Potiphar.
Joseph became a powerful leader in Egypt, serving directly under the Pharaoh.
This fellow used a sling and a smooth stone to kill a giant.

a. Samson.
b. Daniel.
c. David.

c. David
David went to the battlefront when he was a young lad to take food and drink.
While there, he heard the blasphemous shouting of the Philistine giant Goliath.
David decided to answer the giant's challenge.
He attacked the giant with a sling and a smooth stone.
After David slew Goliath, David chopped the giant's head off with the giant's sword.
Who betrayed Jesus to the religious mob on the night of His arrest?

a. Thomas.
b. Simon Peter.
c. Judas Iscariot.

c. Judas Iscariot.
As Jesus predicted at the Last Supper, Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus.
Judas identified Jesus with a kiss when the religious mob came to the Garden of Gethsemane to arrest him.
What happened to Judas Iscariot after the mob took Jesus away?

a. Judas fled to Egypt.
b. The disciples slew him.
c. Judas committed suicide.

b. He committed suicide.
The Bible says his guts spewed out.
What was King David's first occupation?

a. Prophet of God.
b. Captain of the guard.
c. Shepherd for his father.

c. David was a shepherd for his father.
This man denied knowing Jesus three times on the night of Jesus' arrest.

a. Paul.
b. Peter.
c. Judas.

b. Peter.
Even though Peter said he would never deny Jesus, he did so on the night of Jesus' arrest.
At the Last Supper, Jesus predicted Peter would deny him three times before the cock crowed in the morning.
As it happened, Peter followed Jesus as he was taken through the streets.
Three times, someone from the crowd pointed out Peter as a follower of Jesus, which he denied.
This person watched as Moses floated among the reeds along the riverbank.

a. The mother of Moses.
b. Aaron, the brother of Moses.
c. Miriam, the sister of Moses.

c. Miriam, the sister of Moses.
Moses' mother hid him for three months.
Fearing for his life, she put Moses into a basket and placed it in the river.
She hoped that the royal court would find Moses and spare his life.
Moses' sister, Miriam, followed along the riverbank.
He was discovered in the river by Pharaoh's daughter, and she adopted Moses.
Pharaoh's daughter, without knowing, hired Moses' biological mother as his nursemaid.
The royal court and family were unaware that the nursemaid was the biological mother.
Jesus brought this man back to life after being dead for four days.

a. Andrew.
b. Lazarus.
c. Nicodemus.

b. Lazarus.
Lazarus was Jesus' friend who had died.
Jesus deliberately waited four days before raising Lazarus back to life to demonstrate God's power.
Who is the oldest person in the Bible?

a. Methuselah.
b. Noah.
c. Adam.

a. Methuselah.
Methuselah was 969 years old when he died.
Noah lived to be 950 years old.
Adam lived to be 930 years old.
Who killed Abel because of jealousy?

a. Cain.
b. Seth.
c. Adam.

a. Cain.
Abel's older brother, Cain, was jealous of Abel and killed him.
Cain was upset because God seemed to favor Abel's animal sacrifice more than Cain's crop sacrifice.
Where was Jesus born?

a. Galilee.
b. Nazareth.
c. Bethlehem.

c. Bethlehem.
Jesus was born just outside Bethlehem in an animal shelter.
After he was born, Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes and placed in a feeding trough called a manger.
The family was in Bethlehem for the census.
What city did Jesus grow up in?

a. Damascus.
b. Jerusalem.
c. Nazareth.

c. Nazareth.
Jesus lived in Nazareth until he started his ministry.
He was born near Bethlehem and died in Jerusalem.
How many criminals were crucified beside Jesus?

a. One.
b. Two.
c. Three.

b. Two.
At the crucifixion, two criminals were also on a cross.
There was one criminal on either side of Jesus.
Jesus told one of them that he would see him in paradise.
Who baptized Jesus?

a. Caiaphas, the priest.
b. His cousin John.
c. Friar Tuck.

b. His cousin John.
John the Baptist, the cousin of Jesus, baptized Jesus in the River Jordan.
The Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus like a dove after the baptism.
God spoke and said he was well pleased.
John lived in the wilderness, ate locusts and honey, and wore fur-skin clothes.
This prophet led the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery.

a. Samson.
b. Moses.
c. Noah.

b. Moses.
God chose him to lead the enslaved Hebrews out of Egypt.
His brother Aaron was his spokesman, and Joshua was his right-hand man.

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"He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit."

Titus 3:1-11.