Q 01/05

Peter writes that only 'a few people' were saved through water in Noah's ark—how many in all?

A) 3

B) 20

C) 8

D) 10

Answer · why

C) 8

Only 8 people were saved through the flood—Noah, his wife, their three sons and the sons' wives—while everyone else on earth perished. Peter calls the...

Q 02/05

Peter answers scoffers who doubt Christ's return: with the Lord, a day is like how many years?

A) 1,000

B) 700

C) 350

D) 2,500

Answer · why

A) 1,000

Peter writes that with the Lord a day is like 1,000 years, borrowing Psalm 90's line that a thousand years are 'like a day that has just gone by'. His...

Q 03/05

After Jesus fed a crowd with five loaves and two fish, how many basketfuls of scraps were gathered?

A) 7

B) 12

C) 3

D) 10

Answer · why

B) 12

The disciples picked up 12 basketfuls of broken pieces, and this feeding of the five thousand is the one miracle every Gospel records. Mark's second f...

Q 04/05

Jesus's second feeding miracle started from seven loaves and a few fish; about how many people ate?

A) 5,000

B) 9,000

C) 12,000

D) 4,000

Answer · why

D) 4,000

About 4,000 ate in the second feeding, which ended with seven basketfuls left over and took place after Jesus passed through the Gentile Decapolis. He...

Q 05/05

When the demons called Legion entered a herd on a nearby hillside, about how many animals drowned?

A) 2,000

B) 1,500

C) 450

D) 600

Answer · why

A) 2,000

About 2,000 pigs rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned after the impure spirits entered them, and the frightened townspeople begged Jes...

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