Parable of Counting the Cost 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 Jesus ask about building a tower?
- A. Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? ✓
- B. Who will build me a tower?
- C. Towers are useless
- D. Build without planning
Answer: Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? (Luke 14:28)
Q2.What happens if the builder lays the foundation but cannot finish?
- A. All that behold it begin to mock him ✓
- B. He is praised
- C. He is forgiven
- D. He is helped
Answer: All that behold it begin to mock him
Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him. (Luke 14:29)
Q3.What do the mockers say?
- A. This man began to build, and was not able to finish ✓
- B. He is wise
- C. He is strong
- D. He is blessed
Answer: This man began to build, and was not able to finish
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. (Luke 14:30)
Q4.What does Jesus compare to a king going to war?
- A. What king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? ✓
- B. A farmer planting
- C. A merchant trading
- D. A shepherd leading
Answer: What king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? (Luke 14:31)
Q5.What does the king do if he cannot win?
- A. He sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace ✓
- B. He fights anyway
- C. He surrenders unconditionally
- D. He flees
Answer: He sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. (Luke 14:32)
Q6.What does Jesus say about being His disciple?
- A. Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple ✓
- B. Give half your possessions
- C. Keep your family first
- D. Follow at a distance
Answer: Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:33)
Q7.What does salt losing its savour illustrate?
- A. A disciple who loses his commitment is useless ✓
- B. Salt is cheap
- C. Salt is valuable
- D. Salt is necessary
Answer: A disciple who loses his commitment is useless
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Luke 14:34-35)
Q8.What must a disciple hate?
- A. His father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also ✓
- B. His enemies
- C. Sin
- D. The world
Answer: His father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26)
Q9.What must a disciple bear?
- A. His cross, and come after me ✓
- B. His wealth
- C. His honor
- D. His family
Answer: His cross, and come after me
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:27)
Q10.What does Jesus close with?
- A. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear ✓
- B. Go in peace
- C. Be blessed
- D. Follow me
Answer: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Luke 14:35)