Gospel Moments You Skipped | Digging Deeper | Bible Trivia Quiz

Question 1. During Jesus’ trial, Pilate received an urgent message from his own wife. What did she tell him?

Answer: “Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him” (Matthew 27:19).

Context & Exhortation: Only Matthew records this. Pilate is sitting on the judgment seat, the crowd is being stirred up for Barabbas, and in the middle of it a private message arrives from his wife, unnamed in Scripture, warning him off.

Pilate had a warning from his own household and still washed his hands and handed Jesus over (27:24–26). Knowing the right thing is not the same as having the courage to do it.

Matthew alone records the message. He places it right beside the crowd choosing Barabbas (27:20–21). Pilate already knew the chief priests had delivered Jesus “for envy” (27:18).

God sent Pilate more than one warning that day. When we sense God stopping us, it is wise to listen the first time.

Question 2. When collectors asked whether Jesus paid the temple tax, where did He tell Peter to find the money?

Answer: In the mouth of the first fish Peter caught. The coin inside paid the tax for both Jesus and Peter (Matthew 17:24–27).

Context & Exhortation: Jesus points out that a king’s own children are free from the tax, yet He pays anyway, “lest we should offend them” (17:26–27). Then He sends a professional fisherman back to fishing, with one hook and one fish.

Jesus did not insist on His rights when laying them down kept a door open. He also provided exactly what was owed, no more and no less, and enough for Peter too.

The tax was the yearly half shekel for the temple (see Exodus 30:13). The coin Peter found covered two people, “for me and thee” (17:27).

Jesus included Peter in the payment. What He provides, He often provides for us together with Himself.

Question 3. What happened to the graves of many saints when Jesus died on the cross?

Answer: The graves opened, and many bodies of the saints arose. After His resurrection they went into Jerusalem and appeared to many (Matthew 27:52–53).

Context & Exhortation: Matthew lists this beside the earthquake, the split rocks and the veil torn in two (27:51). It is one of the most mysterious lines in the Gospels, and Matthew gives it in a single sentence without explanation.

Even at the moment of His death, Jesus’ cross was already working against the grave. The resurrection was not an afterthought. Death was losing its grip while He hung there.

Matthew notes they came out of the graves “after his resurrection” (27:53). Paul calls Christ “the firstfruits of them that slept” (1 Corinthians 15:20).

The grave’s power was broken at the cross. Believers can face death with hope, not fear.

Question 4. On the night Jesus was arrested, what did one young man leave behind as he ran away?

Answer: His linen cloth. The soldiers grabbed it, and he fled from them naked (Mark 14:51–52).

Context & Exhortation: Only Mark mentions this young man, and he is never named. Many have suggested it was Mark himself, quietly signing his Gospel, but the text does not say.

Everyone fled that night, even this one who tried to follow a little longer (14:50). The scene is honest about how quickly courage can fall away, and it is told by people who were later restored.

Just before this, Jesus told the arresting crowd, “the scriptures must be fulfilled” (14:49). Then “they all forsook him, and fled” (14:50).

The young man escaped with nothing but his life. Jesus stayed and faced the cross alone for those who ran.

Question 5. After Jesus preached in His hometown synagogue, what did the crowd try to do to Him?

Answer: They led Him to the brow of the hill their city was built on, to throw Him down. He passed through the midst of them and went His way (Luke 4:28–30).

Context & Exhortation: Jesus had just read from Isaiah and announced, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears” (4:21). When He reminded them that God had shown mercy to outsiders in Elijah’s and Elisha’s day (4:25–27), the room turned to wrath.

The people who watched Him grow up were the first to try to kill Him. Familiarity can blind us to who Jesus really is.

At first the people “wondered at the gracious words” and asked, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” (4:22). Their admiration turned to anger within minutes.

Jesus did not fight back. He simply walked through them, because His hour had not yet come.

Question 6. Returning from Egypt, why did Joseph avoid Judea and settle in Nazareth instead?

Answer: He heard that Archelaus, Herod’s son, was reigning in Judea and was afraid to go there. Warned in a dream, he went to Galilee (Matthew 2:22–23).

Context & Exhortation: Herod the Great had died, but his son Archelaus now ruled Judea. Joseph’s caution, confirmed by a dream, sent the family north to an obscure town.

That is how Jesus came to be called a Nazarene. God guided this family through ordinary fear and common sense as well as through dreams.

Matthew sees the move as fulfilling the prophets: “He shall be called a Nazarene” (2:23). Nazareth was a small town with little reputation.

God’s plan ran through an ordinary family’s careful choices. He still guides through common sense as well as clear signs.

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