Barnabas Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.What does the name Barnabas mean?
- A. Son of thunder
- B. Son of consolation / exhortation ✓
- C. Beloved physician
- D. Little rock
Answer: Son of consolation / exhortation
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus.
Q2.What did Barnabas sell and lay at the apostles' feet?
- A. His house
- B. A field he owned ✓
- C. His cattle
- D. His ship
Answer: A field he owned
Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Q3.Who did Barnabas bring to the apostles when others were afraid of him?
- A. Peter
- B. John Mark
- C. Saul of Tarsus / Paul ✓
- D. Silas
Answer: Saul of Tarsus / Paul
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way.
Q4.Where was Barnabas from?
- A. Jerusalem
- B. Antioch
- C. Cyprus ✓
- D. Tarsus
Answer: Cyprus
A Levite, and of the country of Cyprus.
Q5.What did Barnabas see in the church at Antioch?
- A. Confusion
- B. The grace of God, and was glad ✓
- C. Division
- D. Idolatry
Answer: The grace of God, and was glad
Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
Q6.Whom did Barnabas bring to Antioch to teach for a whole year?
- A. Peter
- B. Saul / Paul ✓
- C. Silas
- D. Apollos
Answer: Saul / Paul
Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church.
Q7.Barnabas and Paul were sent out as missionaries from which church?
- A. Jerusalem
- B. Antioch ✓
- C. Ephesus
- D. Corinth
Answer: Antioch
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them… and they sent them away.
Q8.On their first missionary journey, where did Barnabas and Paul first preach?
- A. Athens
- B. Salamis in Cyprus ✓
- C. Rome
- D. Alexandria
Answer: Salamis in Cyprus
So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews.
Q9.Why did Barnabas and Paul separate after their first journey?
- A. A disagreement about whether to take John Mark with them again ✓
- B. A doctrinal dispute
- C. Paul was arrested
- D. Barnabas wanted to return home
Answer: A disagreement about whether to take John Mark with them again
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus.
Q10.What fruit of the Spirit is Barnabas especially remembered for?
- A. Patience
- B. Gentleness
- C. Generosity and encouragement ✓
- D. Self-control
Answer: Generosity and encouragement
Barnabas exemplified generosity (selling his land), encouragement (bringing Paul to the apostles), and grace (seeing the good in others).