Miracles of Jesus
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50 free Miracles of Jesus trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Gospels describe Jesus doing far more than teaching. He heals people nobody else would touch, calms the weather, feeds huge crowds from almost nothing and calls the dead back to life. These stories are among the best known in the Bible, and they are full of small, vivid details that are easy to half-remember. This quiz covers the miracles people look up most: the wedding at Cana, the storm on the lake, the meal for a multitude, the healings of the blind, the lame and the sick, the casting out of demons and the raisings of the dead. Questions ask who was there, where it happened, what was said and what happened next. It is written for Sunday school classes, kids' Bible quizzes and family nights as well as adults getting ready for Bible study. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so even a wrong guess teaches the story.
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Q 01At a wedding in Cana, Jesus performed the first of his signs by changing water into what?
Wine
Wine had run out at the feast, and the steward who tasted the new supply said the best had been kept until last. He had no idea where it had come from.
Q 02Which disciple stepped out of a boat and walked on water toward Jesus before losing his nerve?
Peter
Peter walked toward Jesus until the storm frightened him, and Jesus reached out a hand and took hold of him. Only Matthew's Gospel includes this part of the story.
Q 03Which friend of Jesus walked out of his tomb alive after lying dead for four days?
Lazarus
Lazarus came out wrapped in his grave-cloths when Jesus called to him, and Jesus had to ask the bystanders to unbind him. Only one of the four Gospels tells the story.
Q 04How did friends get a paralysed man past the crowd to Jesus inside a packed house in Capernaum?
Through the roof
Through the roof was the only way in, so they dug an opening above Jesus and lowered the man down. Mark's Gospel says four men carried him there.
Q 05Jesus sent demons out of a man living among tombs and into which animals, which then drowned?
Pigs
Pigs grazing on a nearby hillside took the demons, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the water. Mark's Gospel numbers the herd at about two thousand.
Q 06What was Jesus doing in the stern of the boat when a fierce storm terrified his disciples?
Sleeping
Sleeping on a cushion, Jesus had to be woken by disciples who asked whether he cared that they were about to drown. Then he quieted the storm with a few words.
Q 07Finding only leaves, a hungry Jesus cursed a roadside plant near Jerusalem for lacking which fruit?
Figs
Figs were not even in season, Mark notes. In his telling Jesus then drove the money-changers from the temple, and by the next morning the plant had withered to its roots.
Q 08Where did Jesus tell a disciple he would find a coin to pay the temple tax in Capernaum?
In a fish's mouth
In a fish's mouth, the first one caught, was a four-drachma coin: exactly enough to pay the tax for two people. Only Matthew's Gospel tells the story.
Q 09In one Gospel, who supplied the five loaves that Jesus multiplied to feed a crowd of thousands?
A young boy
A young boy had brought the food along with him, a detail only one Gospel gives. The disciple Andrew pointed him out, then asked what use so little was among so many.
Q 10At the arrest of Jesus, which part of the high priest's servant did Jesus heal after a sword blow?
His ear
His ear, the right one, had been cut off, and Jesus touched it and healed him. It is the last miracle the Gospels report before the crucifixion.
Q 11After Jesus fed a crowd of thousands from five loaves, how many baskets of scraps were left over?
Twelve
Twelve baskets of broken pieces were gathered once everyone had eaten their fill, far more food than the meal began with.
Q 12What did the frightened disciples think they saw when Jesus walked across the lake to their boat?
A ghost
A ghost was their first thought, and they cried out in fear until Jesus called to them to take heart. They had been rowing against the wind for most of the night.
Q 13Jesus calmed a sudden storm while crossing which body of water in a boat with his disciples?
The Sea of Galilee
The Sea of Galilee is really a freshwater lake, and it was known for sudden, fierce storms. Several of the disciples in the boat had made their living fishing on it.
Q 21Which miracle of Jesus, apart from his own resurrection, is the only one recorded in all four Gospels?
Feeding the 5,000
Feeding the 5,000 is the one story all four evangelists chose to keep. Matthew and Mark also describe a second, smaller mass meal for about four thousand people.
Q 22Which two Old Testament figures appeared and spoke with Jesus on the mountain at the Transfiguration?
Moses and Elijah
Moses and Elijah have long been read as standing for the Law and the Prophets, a reading that goes back at least to the third-century theologian Origen.
Q 23Which kind of officer in Capernaum amazed Jesus by asking only for a word to heal his sick servant?
A centurion
Q 14What did a woman who had been bleeding for years touch in a crowd to be healed by Jesus?
His cloak
His cloak was enough: she came up behind him, touched it and felt at once that she was well. Jesus turned around and asked the crowd who had touched his clothes.
Q 15After his disciples failed in a healing, Jesus said faith as small as which seed could move a mountain?
Mustard
Mustard was his picture of something tiny: in a parable he calls it smaller than all seeds. Faith that size, he said, would leave nothing impossible for them.
Q 16Jesus healed ten men with leprosy, but the only one who returned to thank him was from which group?
Samaritans
Samaritans were outsiders to Jesus's Jewish listeners, which gives the story its sting. Jesus asked aloud where the other nine had gone.
Q 17Before raising his friend at Bethany, Jesus did what, in the shortest verse of the King James Bible?
He wept
He wept, a moment the King James Version tells in just two words. The verse is the shortest in that translation, though not in the original Greek.
Q 18Jesus angered the Pharisees by healing a man's withered hand in a synagogue on which holy day?
The Sabbath
The Sabbath was a day of rest, and the Pharisees were watching to see whether Jesus would heal on it. He asked who among them would leave a sheep in a pit that day.
Q 19Which miracle did Jesus refuse to perform for himself after forty days of fasting in the wilderness?
Turning stones into bread
Turning stones into bread was the tempter's first suggestion to a hungry Jesus. He answered from scripture that people do not live on bread alone.
Q 20In which hometown could Jesus do only a few miracles because people there refused to believe in him?
Nazareth
Nazareth knew him as the local carpenter, and Mark says he could do no mighty work there beyond healing a few sick people. He remarked that a prophet has no honour at home.
A centurion was used to giving orders that were obeyed, and this one reasoned that Jesus could do the same with a word. Jesus said he had not found such faith in Israel.
Q 24Which synagogue leader begged Jesus to come and heal his dying daughter, whom Jesus then raised?
Jairus
Jairus was on the way home with Jesus when messengers said the girl had died and there was no reason to bother the teacher any more. Jesus kept walking.
Q 25Which blind beggar sat by the road outside Jericho and shouted until Jesus stopped and healed him?
Bartimaeus
Bartimaeus kept shouting even when the crowd tried to silence him. Mark explains that the name means son of Timaeus, and it is unusual for a healed person to be named at all.
Q 26What name did the possessed man of the Gerasenes give when Jesus asked, because there were many of them?
Legion
Legion was also the word for a Roman army unit of 3,000 to 6,000 soldiers. Mark and Luke keep the name, while Matthew's shorter telling leaves the demons unnamed.
Q 27Luke says seven demons had gone out of which woman who travelled with Jesus and supported his work?
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene heads Luke's list of followers who paid for the group's needs out of their own resources, ahead of Joanna and Susanna.
Q 28What did Jesus first tell a paralysed man in Capernaum, prompting scribes to accuse him of blasphemy?
His sins were forgiven
His sins were forgiven, Jesus said, and the teachers of the law objected that God alone can do that. Only then did he tell the man to get up and walk.
Q 29What did Jesus tell the man he healed at the Pool of Bethesda to pick up as he walked away?
His mat
His mat got him into trouble: it was a day of rest, and he was told the Law forbade him to carry it. He had been ill for thirty-eight years.
Q 30Which Gospel calls the miracles of Jesus signs and builds its first half around seven of them?
John
John opens its run of seven signs with the wedding at Cana. It leaves out scenes the other three share, such as the parables and the Transfiguration.