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New Testament trivia, paired with the actual verse.
From Matthew through Revelation — twenty-seven books that took the early church about a hundred years to write. Kerygma's New Testament category covers the Gospels, the Acts, the letters, and the Apocalypse, with a fresh question every round and the verse open the moment you answer.
What's covered
The category spans the full New Testament canon, from the synoptic Gospels through John's apocalypse on Patmos:
- The four Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. The life and teaching of Jesus.
- Acts of the Apostles — the church's first thirty years, from Pentecost to Paul in Rome.
- Pauline epistles — Romans through Philemon, the thirteen letters tradition assigns to Paul.
- General epistles — Hebrews, James, 1–2 Peter, 1–2–3 John, and Jude.
- Revelation — the final book, the apocalyptic vision recorded by John of Patmos.
- Themes — kingdom, atonement, resurrection, the new covenant, and the early church's self-understanding.
A round, in two minutes
Pick the difficulty (Acquainted for the familiar Gospel stories, Conversant for narrative grasp, Profound for doctrine and detail), pick how many questions you want — five, ten, fifteen, or twenty — and you're playing. Each question is freshly written by AI for the topic you picked, never repeated, never from a fixed bank.
Tap your answer and the actual verse opens, ESV translation, with a short commentary that ties the passage back to the question. That's the round. Quiet repetition is how it sticks.
Sample question
Which of Paul's letters is generally considered to be his earliest?
“Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.”
Commentary
1 Thessalonians is widely dated to AD 50–51, written from Corinth on Paul's second missionary journey. It predates the major doctrinal letters (Romans is around AD 57) by several years and is among the earliest Christian documents we possess. Galatians is a near-rival for the title depending on how you date it, but most scholars give the crown to 1 Thessalonians.
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Which of Paul's letters is generally considered to be his earliest?
“Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.”
Commentary
1 Thessalonians is widely dated to AD 50–51, written from Corinth on Paul's second missionary journey. It predates the major doctrinal letters (Romans is around AD 57) by several years and is among the earliest Christian documents we possess. Galatians is a near-rival for the title depending on how you date it, but most scholars give the crown to 1 Thessalonians.
Which of Paul's letters is generally considered to be his earliest?
“Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.”
Commentary
1 Thessalonians is widely dated to AD 50–51, written from Corinth on Paul's second missionary journey. It predates the major doctrinal letters (Romans is around AD 57) by several years and is among the earliest Christian documents we possess. Galatians is a near-rival for the title depending on how you date it, but most scholars give the crown to 1 Thessalonians.
Which of Paul's letters is generally considered to be his earliest?
"Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace."1 Thessalonians 1:1
1 Thessalonians is widely dated to AD 50–51, written from Corinth on Paul's second missionary journey. It predates the major doctrinal letters (Romans is around AD 57) by several years and is among the earliest Christian documents we possess. Galatians is a near-rival for the title depending on how you date it, but most scholars give the crown to 1 Thessalonians.
More sample questions
In which town was Jesus born, fulfilling the prophecy of Micah?
"And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel."Matthew 2:6
Matthew quotes Micah 5:2, written roughly seven centuries earlier, to ground Jesus' birth in covenant history rather than coincidence. Bethlehem was David's hometown — the prophecy promised a Davidic king, and the Gospel writers stress that the geography lined up. Joseph and Mary were in Nazareth; a Roman census moved them.
Which Gospel opens with "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God"?
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."John 1:1
John deliberately echoes Genesis 1:1 to frame his Gospel as a new creation account, with Jesus as the divine Word (Greek: Logos) through whom all things were made. Where the Synoptics start with genealogy, baptism, or birth, John starts in eternity. This prologue (1:1–18) is one of the New Testament's most explicit affirmations of Christ's divinity.
What did Jesus do at the wedding in Cana, his first public sign in John's Gospel?
"This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him."John 2:11
John structures his Gospel around seven "signs," not "miracles" — each one points beyond itself to who Jesus is. The water for ceremonial washing becomes the wine of the new covenant feast, a quiet announcement that the old purification rituals are being fulfilled and surpassed. The Master of the banquet's observation — "you have kept the good wine until now" — carries the theology of the moment.
Who wrote the book of Acts, traditionally identified as the second volume of a two-part work?
"In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach."Acts 1:1
Acts opens by referring back to "the first book" — the Gospel of Luke, also addressed to Theophilus. Luke, a physician and Paul's traveling companion, is the only Gentile author in the New Testament. The "we" passages later in Acts (16:10ff., 20:5ff., 27:1ff.) suggest he was an eyewitness to substantial portions of Paul's journeys.
At the Last Supper, which disciple did Jesus identify as the one who would betray him?
"So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot."John 13:26
John's account adds the detail of the dipped morsel — a gesture of host to honored guest, which makes Judas' betrayal a violation of intimate fellowship. Peter would deny three times that very night, but he repented; Judas' "remorse" without repentance ended in his death. The contrast is one of the New Testament's hardest pastoral lessons.
On what mountain did Jesus deliver the discourse that includes the Beatitudes?
"Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him."Matthew 5:1
Matthew names no specific peak — the unspecified "mountain" deliberately parallels Sinai, where Moses received the law. Jesus, sitting (the posture of an authoritative rabbi), reframes and intensifies that law from the inside out. Tradition since the fourth century has identified a hill near Tabgha on the Sea of Galilee, but the Gospel itself leaves it open.
Which New Testament epistle is traditionally attributed to "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ"?
"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings."James 1:1
James the apostle (Zebedee's son) was martyred by Herod Agrippa around AD 44 — too early to be the most likely author. Christian tradition since the early church identifies the writer as James "the Just," brother of Jesus, leader of the Jerusalem church (Acts 15) and martyred around AD 62. Galatians 1:19 names him explicitly as "the Lord's brother."
What is the central theme of Hebrews 11, often called "the faith chapter"?
"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."Hebrews 11:1
Hebrews 11 is a sustained survey — Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Moses, Rahab and others — showing that saving faith has always operated by trusting God's promise before its fulfillment. The "cloud of witnesses" of 12:1 picks this chapter up and turns it forward toward the readers' own perseverance. The chapter's logic depends on covenant continuity, not novelty.
In Romans 5, the parallel Paul draws between Adam and Christ is best described as what?
"Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men."Romans 5:18
Paul's Adam-Christ typology is the engine of his soteriology: Adam's disobedience plunged humanity into death; Christ's obedience opens the way to justification. 1 Corinthians 15 expands the same logic ("the last Adam became a life-giving spirit"). The structure depends on Adam being a real, representative figure — not a literary device — for the parallel to bear theological weight.
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