Forty Days and Forty Nights Trivia Quiz

Answer: 6

John 2 1-11 says that "six stone water jars which stood nearby, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons were filled with water to the brim by the servants." The quality of the miraculous wine can be ascertained from the master of the banquet's comment to the bridegroom that, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."

Answer: Hungry

The NIV Bible in Luke 4:2 says, "Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry." Since the Bible earlier specifically mentions in the almost similar case of Moses that he neither ate nor drank in Exodus 34:28, Jesus would have miraculously survived on plain water in the desert or wilderness.

The related Scriptures being Luke 1:12-13 and Matthew 4:1-2.

Answer: Peter

Matthew 14:22-33 gives an account of the events. "Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side of the lake, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake". First the disciples were terrified, then Peter summoned the courage and with Jesus' help began to try the same thing.

However he began to sink; Jesus saved him and chided him for his lack of faith.

Answer: All the four Gospels

Related Scriptures are John 1:32, Matthew 3:16, and Luke 3:21-22. All four Gospels record this significant act of Jesus being anointed as it were with the Holy Spirit. Then the Spirit leads Him into the desert for a perhaps spiritual disciplinary kind of experience of 40 days and 40 nights. Mark 1:12-13 says, "The Spirit then compelled Jesus to go into the wilderness. And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan; and He was with the wild beasts, and the angels were ministering to Him."

Answer: Sychar

This Biblical well is a tourist spot even today at Sychar (now known as Askar) near the modern-day town of Nablus in Israel's northern West Bank. The well is sourced from flowing underground fresh water springs, hence the people of the area call it 'living water', of which Jesus reveals a deeper more precious spiritual message. John 4:5-7 says "So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well.

It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"" Jesus further says in 4:13, "Jesus answered, 'Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.

Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.'"

Answer: in the Temple

In John 7 the Bible says Jesus went secretly to Jerusalem when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near. "Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach." On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said these words in a loud voice.

Answer: reward

Jesus often stressed that even relatively simple or insignificant details and acts have perhaps great significance in the Kingdom of God. In Matthew 5:18 He says, "I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God's law will disappear until its purpose is achieved." In Mark 9:41 and also in Mathew 10:42 Jesus says "And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward."" - NIV Bible

Answer: Pool of Bethesda

Bethesda in Aramaic implies "House of Mercy". Jesus was present there for a Jewish festival on the Sabbath day. John 5:2-5 "Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.

Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed-and they waited for the moving of the waters. From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had." - NIV Bible

Answer: he had no one to help him into the pool

Even though there were many invalid or disabled people at the pool, this particular person received special attention and concern from Jesus. John 5:4-9 says "From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred.

While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.".

At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath," - NIV Bible

Answer: Matthew, Mark and John

In the NIV Bible Matthew 14:22-34, Mark 6:45-52 and John 6:16-21 all have accounts of Jesus walking on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus attracted attention not just because He preached the right things however also because he demonstrated the miracle working power of God in doing good along with Godly signs and wonders confirming His message.

In chapter 8 of Matthew and Luke: "The disciples went and woke him, saying, 'Master, Master, we're going to drown!' He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. 'Where is your faith?' he asked his disciples.

In fear and amazement they asked one another, 'Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.'"