Lent 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.How many days did Jesus fast in the wilderness?
- A. Forty days and forty nights ✓
- B. Seven days
- C. Three days
- D. Twelve days
Answer: Forty days and forty nights
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. (Matthew 4:1-2)
Q2.What did Jesus use to answer each temptation?
- A. It is written ✓
- B. His own wisdom
- C. Miracles
- D. The authority of angels
Answer: It is written
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (Matthew 4:4)
Q3.What does Deuteronomy 8:3 say man shall not live by?
- A. Bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD ✓
- B. Bread and water
- C. Fasting alone
- D. The law alone
Answer: Bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. (Deuteronomy 8:3)
Q4.What does Matthew 4:17 say Jesus began to preach?
- A. Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand ✓
- B. The law is fulfilled
- C. I am the way
- D. Love your enemies
Answer: Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Matthew 4:17)
Q5.What does Isaiah 58:6-7 say true fasting is?
- A. To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke; to deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ✓
- B. Only abstaining from food
- C. Wearing sackcloth
- D. Sitting in ashes
Answer: To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke; to deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the poor that are cast out to thy house
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? (Isaiah 58:6-7)
Q6.What does Mark 1:35 say Jesus did in the morning?
- A. Rose up a great while before day, and went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed ✓
- B. Slept late
- C. Preached to crowds
- D. Healed the sick
Answer: Rose up a great while before day, and went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. (Mark 1:35)
Q7.What does Luke 5:16 say Jesus often did?
- A. He withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed ✓
- B. He went to feasts
- C. He taught in the temple
- D. He travelled to cities
Answer: He withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. (Luke 5:16)
Q8.What does Hebrews 4:15 say Jesus was in all points?
- A. Tempted like as we are, yet without sin ✓
- B. Free from temptation
- C. Above suffering
- D. Beyond weakness
Answer: Tempted like as we are, yet without sin
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15)
Q9.What does 1 Corinthians 11:1 say to be followers of?
- A. Me, even as I also am of Christ ✓
- B. The world
- C. The Pharisees
- D. The scribes
Answer: Me, even as I also am of Christ
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. (1 Corinthians 11:1)
Q10.What does Romans 12:1 call us to present?
- A. Our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service ✓
- B. Our wealth
- C. Our time
- D. Our families
Answer: Our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)