Nicodemus 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 was Nicodemus' position?
- A. A scribe
- B. A Pharisee, a ruler of the Jews ✓
- C. A Sadducee
- D. A publican
Answer: A Pharisee, a ruler of the Jews
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
Q2.When did Nicodemus come to Jesus?
- A. In the daytime before the crowds
- B. By night ✓
- C. During the Passover feast only
- D. On the Sabbath
Answer: By night
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God.
Q3.What did Nicodemus call Jesus?
- A. A prophet
- B. Rabbi, a teacher come from God ✓
- C. The Son of God
- D. The king of Israel
Answer: Rabbi, a teacher come from God
Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Q4.What did Jesus tell Nicodemus a man must be to see the kingdom of God?
- A. Born of water and of the Spirit ✓
- B. Circumcised
- C. Baptized by John
- D. A descendant of Abraham
Answer: Born of water and of the Spirit
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God… Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Q5.What did Jesus compare the wind to?
- A. The sound of thunder
- B. The Spirit blowing where it listeth ✓
- C. A whirlwind
- D. A gentle breeze
Answer: The Spirit blowing where it listeth
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Q6.What did Jesus reference to explain the new birth?
- A. The crossing of the Red Sea
- B. Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness ✓
- C. The Flood
- D. The giving of the law
Answer: Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.
Q7.What famous verse did Jesus speak to Nicodemus?
- A. I am the way, the truth, and the life
- B. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son ✓
- C. I am the bread of life
- D. I am the good shepherd
Answer: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Q8.What did Nicodemus say to the Pharisees about Jesus?
- A. Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? ✓
- B. He is a false prophet
- C. He should be arrested
- D. He should be stoned
Answer: Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
Nicodemus saith unto them, (He that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
Q9.What did Nicodemus bring for Jesus' burial?
- A. A hundred pounds of myrrh and aloes
- B. A mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight ✓
- C. Gold and frankincense
- D. A linen shroud only
Answer: A mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
Q10.How is Nicodemus' later openness a testimony?
- A. He remained secretive
- B. He moved from night to daylight — defending Jesus before the Sanhedrin and honouring Him in burial ✓
- C. He denied Jesus
- D. He became a Sadducee
Answer: He moved from night to daylight — defending Jesus before the Sanhedrin and honouring Him in burial
Nicodemus progressed from a secret night visitor to a public defender and faithful servant at Jesus' burial.