Apostle Paul Bible Trivia
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100 free Apostle Paul Bible trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Paul wrote more of the New Testament than anyone else and walked more of the Roman world than most legionaries. This Bible trivia about Paul covers the man from Tarsus who trained under Gamaliel, held the coats at Stephen's stoning, was blinded on the Damascus road and spent the rest of his life planting churches from Antioch to Corinth. You will meet Barnabas, Silas, Timothy, Lydia, Priscilla and Aquila, the jailer at Philippi, the silversmiths of Ephesus, Felix and Festus, and the islanders of Malta, plus the letters themselves: which ones scholars consider undisputed, which is the shortest, and who took Romans to Rome. Fifty questions for Bible study groups, youth groups and anyone who loves Acts.
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Q 01Paul described himself as a member of which strict Jewish group?
The Pharisees
The Pharisees were still his party at his trial: Paul declared himself a Pharisee, son of Pharisees, and set the council arguing among itself.
Q 02Paul's home city of Tarsus lay in which region, as he names it in Acts?
Cilicia
Cilicia was his birthplace, and when a commander took him for a rebel, Paul answered that Tarsus in Cilicia was 'no insignificant city'.
Q 03To which tribe of Israel did Paul say he belonged?
Benjamin
Benjamin was also King Saul's tribe, and Paul's Jewish name Saul was perhaps given in memory of that first king of Israel.
Q 04Under which famous teacher of Jewish law was Paul educated in Jerusalem?
Gamaliel
Gamaliel urged the council to leave the apostles alone in case they were fighting against God, yet his former pupil went on to hunt believers down.
Q 05What trade did Paul practise to support himself, partnering with Priscilla and Aquila?
Tentmaking
Tentmaking let Paul preach without living off the churches: he wrote that he worked night and day so as not to be a burden to anyone.
Q 06According to Acts, what legal status was Paul born with?
Roman citizen
Roman citizen by birth, Paul stopped a flogging in Jerusalem by pointing out that it was unlawful to flog a citizen who had not been tried.
Q 07At whose martyrdom was Saul present as a witness, according to Acts?
Stephen
Stephen prayed that his killers be forgiven as he died, while Saul, minding their coats, approved of the killing.
Q 08Paul was on the road to which city when he was blinded by a light from heaven?
Damascus
Damascus was his target: he carried letters from the high priest to arrest followers of Jesus there and bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Q 09What did the blinded Saul go without for three days?
Food and drink
Food and drink went untouched for those three days, until his sight returned and he was baptized.
Q 10Who laid hands on Saul to restore his sight and baptized him?
Ananias
Ananias came because of a vision, and when he laid his hands on Saul, something like scales fell from Saul's eyes.
Q 11In Galatians, Paul says that after his conversion he first went to which region?
Arabia
Arabia was where Paul went instead of going up to Jerusalem to consult the apostles, since he insisted his gospel came from no man but from Christ.
Q 12When enemies watched the city gates to kill Paul soon after his conversion, how did he escape?
Lowered in a basket
Lowered in a basket through the wall, Paul escaped: the man who had come to arrest believers was now the one being hunted.
Q 13Which companion went to find Paul and brought him to the church that launched the Gentile mission?
Barnabas
Barnabas had already vouched for Paul when the Jerusalem disciples were afraid of him, and later went all the way to Tarsus to bring him to teach.
Q 21What did Lydia of Thyatira, whom Paul met at Philippi, sell for a living?
Purple cloth
Purple cloth was Lydia's trade, and after her household was baptized, she persuaded Paul's group to come and stay with her.
Q 22What event in Philippi led to the conversion of the jailer holding Paul and Silas?
An earthquake
An earthquake at midnight threw open every door, yet no prisoner fled, so the jailer, about to kill himself, asked instead how he could be saved.
Q 23In Philippi, Paul cast a spirit out of whom?
A fortune-telling slave girl
A fortune-telling slave girl earned her owners money, so once the spirit left her, they dragged Paul and Silas before the authorities and had them jailed.
Q 14In which city were the followers of Jesus first called 'Christians'?
Antioch
Antioch earned the name after believers fleeing persecution in Jerusalem began preaching to Greeks there, and its church later sent Paul out on his first missionary journey.
Q 15After Paul healed a man lame from birth, the crowd took him for which god, because he did the talking?
Hermes
Hermes was the gods' messenger, so the crowd cast Paul as him, but soon afterwards they turned on him, stoned him and left him for dead.
Q 16On the first journey’s island stop, Paul rebuked and blinded which magician?
Elymas
Elymas tried to turn the proconsul Sergius Paulus against Paul's message, but once the sorcerer was struck blind, the proconsul believed.
Q 17Which young helper left the first missionary journey at Perga and returned to Jerusalem?
John Mark
John Mark's walkout later split the mission: Paul refused to take him on the next journey, the argument grew sharp, and the two leaders went separate ways.
Q 18The Council of Jerusalem, described in Acts 15, settled what key question?
Whether Gentile converts must be circumcised
Whether Gentile converts must be circumcised was settled in their favour: they were asked only to avoid idol-polluted food, sexual immorality, strangled meat and blood.
Q 19In the clash he recounts in Galatians, Paul confronted which apostle over eating with Gentiles?
Peter
Peter had happily eaten with Gentiles until men from James arrived, then drew back out of fear, and Paul opposed him to his face.
Q 20In which city did Paul and Silas meet the young disciple Timothy?
Lystra
Lystra's believers spoke well of Timothy, so Paul took him along, and several of Paul's letters open by naming Timothy beside him.
Q 24When a viper fastened on Paul's hand after his shipwreck, what did the islanders first assume about him?
He was a murderer
He was a murderer, they reasoned, whom Justice would not let live even after he escaped the sea, but Paul shook the snake into the fire unharmed.
Q 25At the Areopagus, Paul built his sermon around an altar bearing what inscription?
To an unknown god
To an unknown god gave Paul his opening: he told the Athenians that the God they worshipped without knowing was the one he had come to proclaim.
Q 26Which philosophers did Paul debate in the agora before being taken to the Areopagus?
Epicureans and Stoics
Epicureans and Stoics dismissed him as a 'babbler' preaching foreign gods, so they brought him before the Areopagus to explain his new teaching.
Q 27Why had Aquila and Priscilla recently left Rome when Paul first met them?
Claudius expelled the Jews
Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome, so the couple were starting afresh, and because they shared Paul's trade he lodged and worked with them.
Q 28Which proconsul of Achaia, mentioned in Acts, helps historians date Paul's second journey?
Gallio
Gallio threw the case against Paul out of court as a quarrel over words and names, and a letter naming him, found at Delphi, fixes when he held office.
Q 29Why did Paul have his hair cut off at Cenchreae, according to Acts?
Because of a vow
Because of a vow, Paul cut his hair, and later in Jerusalem he underwent a Temple purification rite to show that he still kept the law.
Q 30Paul stayed almost three years in which city, an important centre of early Christianity?
Ephesus
Ephesus became his base: he taught daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word.