Q 01/05

Paul asked Timothy to stay in which city and silence false teachers while Paul went on to Macedonia?

A) Corinth

B) Ephesus

C) Philippi

D) Thessalonica

Answer · why

B) Ephesus

Ephesus was the post Timothy was told to hold while Paul travelled on, and the letter never says whether Paul came back, though 3:14 has him 'hoping t...

Q 02/05

Which group does 1 Timothy's 'faithful saying' say Christ came into the world to save, 'of whom I am chief'?

A) Sinners

B) The lost

C) Israel

D) The righteous

Answer · why

A) Sinners

Sinners is the word, and Paul calls himself their chief because he had been 'a blasphemer, and a persecutor' before he obtained mercy.

Q 03/05

Which two men does 1 Timothy 1:20 say Paul 'delivered unto Satan' so that they might learn not to blaspheme?

A) Phygellus and Hermogenes

B) Demas and Philetus

C) Jannes and Jambres

D) Hymenaeus and Alexander

Answer · why

D) Hymenaeus and Alexander

Hymenaeus and Alexander are the only false teachers the letter names, and 2 Timothy adds that Hymenaeus taught that the resurrection 'is past already'...

Q 04/05

For what ailment does 1 Timothy 5:23 tell Timothy to 'drink no longer water' but take a little wine?

A) His eyes

B) His fever

C) His stomach

D) His headaches

Answer · why

C) His stomach

His stomach and his 'often infirmities' are the reasons given, a rare glimpse of Timothy's health in a letter otherwise about running a church.

Q 05/05

Which Roman governor does 1 Timothy 6:13 name as the one before whom Christ 'witnessed a good confession'?

A) Pontius Pilate

B) Porcius Festus

C) Antonius Felix

D) Junius Gallio

Answer · why

A) Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate is the only person from the Gospel narratives, apart from Jesus himself, named anywhere in the letter, and the verse uses that trial to...