Quiz questions are interesting ways to sharpen learning and awareness. From time to time Jesus asked his disciples and others – Sadducees, Pharisees and others.
Read the questions. Try answering yourself. Only after trying to answer them go to the answers. This way you will benefit most. Exercising and flexing the muscles of your mind.
Question 1) Jesus asks us to remember this specific woman. Who is this? Is it Magdalene Marium, his mother Mary, Lazarus sister Mary or any one else?
Question 2) Which women’s offering was praised by Jesus?
Question 3) Whose grandmother was praised for giving an inheritance of faith to the grandson?
Question 4) Which woman asked her friends and neighbours to rejoice after finding what was lost? Explain the background. Who speaks about this woman in the New Testament?
Question 5) Which women did Jesus speak about mentioning that she has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her?
Answers may be read after you have earnestly tried to answer all the 5 questions.
Answer 1) Jesus asks us to remember Lot’s wife. The verse in which Jesus asks us to remember her is this. “Remember Lot’s wife.” (Luke 17:32 NKJV). To read more on this, click here Why should you not look back?
Answer 2) The widow was praised for her offering. Although she did not have any money, she still gave from the little she had. Thus she showed her trust in God in her giving.
And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings [b]for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”( Luke 21:1-4 NKJV)
Answer 3) Timothy’s grandmother was praised for giving inheritance of faith by Apostle Paul. ( II Timothy 1:5)
Answer 4) The woman who lost one of the ten silver coins rejoices when she finds it and calls her friends and neighbours and rejoices. Jesus speaks about this woman. Jesus speaks about the shepherd who goes behind the one sheep which was lost while the 99 were not lost. Also the story of the prodigal son where the father rejoices greatly even when the younger son had squandered the fathers wealth in a wasteful lifestyle. ( Luke 15: 8-31 NKJV)
Answer 5) Lazarus had two sisters. Mary and Martha. When Jesus went to their home, Martha went to the kitchen cooking and preparing things for LordJesus. Whereas Mary sat at the feet of Jesus and keenly heard what he told. This is what Jesus said was commendable about Mary. This would not be taken from her. This can be read in Luke 10:38-42.
God bless you. Read the Bible daily. Meditate on this. Speak to your friends and family. Change the way you think, you live.
