{"id":116331,"date":"2026-09-21T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/?page_id=116331"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:25:07","slug":"bible-trivia-easter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/index.php\/bible-trivia-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Trivia: Easter &#038; Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BGodInspired Bible Trivia: Easter & Resurrection -->\n<link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Playfair+Display:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;0,700;1,400;1,600&#038;family=Inter:wght@300;400;500;600&#038;display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n<style>\n#bgi-game-bible-trivia-easter *, #bgi-game-bible-trivia-easter *::before, #bgi-game-bible-trivia-easter *::after { box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; }\n#bgi-game-bible-trivia-easter {\n  --navy: #0D1B2A; --navy-mid: #162233; --cream: #F5F0E8;\n  --sage: #7B9E87; --sage-dim: #5E7A69; --clay: #C4847B; 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Matthew 21:4-5\",\n\"fact\": \"Zechariah 9:9 pictures a king arriving \\\"lowly, and riding upon an ass.\\\" Matthew quotes it as the donkey is brought to Jesus.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Besides cutting down branches, what did the \\\"very great multitude\\\" spread on the road in front of Jesus?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Their garments\",\n\"Rose petals\",\n\"Fresh straw\",\n\"Linen cloths from the temple\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Matthew 21:8\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"A very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In Matthew, the crowds shout \\\"Hosanna to the ___.\\\" Which title completes it?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Son of David\",\n\"Lamb of God\",\n\"Prince of Peace\",\n\"King of Israel\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Matthew 21:9\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"When the whole city of Jerusalem was stirred and asked \\\"Who is this?\\\", what did the crowd answer?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee\\\"\",\n\"\\\"This is the King of the Jews\\\"\",\n\"\\\"This is Elijah come again\\\"\",\n\"\\\"This is the son of Joseph the carpenter\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Matthew 21:10-11\",\n\"fact\": \"The multitude said, \\\"This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.\\\" A big welcome, but still a smaller title than the week would reveal.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"During Holy Week Jesus quoted: \\\"The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.\\\" Which Old Testament book was he quoting?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Psalms\",\n\"Proverbs\",\n\"Daniel\",\n\"Nehemiah\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Psalm 118:22; 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Very early on the first day of the week &mdash; the Sunday &mdash; a group of women came with spices to finish the burial and found the stone rolled away and the tomb empty. Angels told them Jesus had risen. Over the next forty days, the New Testament records him appearing to Mary Magdalene, to the women, to two travellers, to the disciples behind locked doors, to Thomas, to seven of them by the Sea of Galilee, and, Paul says, to more than five hundred people at once. Everything the church later celebrated as Easter grows out of that one morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why does the date of Easter change every year?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Because Easter is tied to the Passover, and the Passover follows a lunar calendar rather than a fixed date. The Gospels place Jesus&rsquo; death during &ldquo;the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread,&rdquo; so the earliest Christians marked the resurrection in step with that festival. In AD 325 the Council of Nicaea began the process of settling on a common method, and the rule most Western churches use today puts Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox. That means it can land anywhere from 22 March to 25 April. Eastern Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar for the calculation, which is why their Easter often falls a week or more later. The moving date is a quiet reminder that Easter began as a Passover story &mdash; Paul even calls Jesus &ldquo;Christ our passover.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Holy Week, and what happened on each day?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Holy Week is the week leading up to Easter, and the Gospels give it more space than any other stretch of Jesus&rsquo; life. It opens on Palm Sunday, when Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a young donkey and the crowds spread their coats and branches on the road, shouting &ldquo;Hosanna.&rdquo; Over the following days he clears the temple traders and teaches in the temple courts. On the Thursday he eats the Passover meal with his disciples, washes their feet, gives them the bread and the cup, sings a hymn with them and goes out to pray in Gethsemane, where Judas arrives with an armed crowd. Through the night and into Friday come the trials before the high priest, Pilate and Herod, then the crucifixion at Golgotha and burial before sunset. Saturday is the sabbath, silent in the text. And on Sunday morning the tomb is found empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is there evidence outside the Bible that Jesus was crucified?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes. The crucifixion is one of the best-attested facts about Jesus, and not only from Christian writers. The Roman historian Tacitus, writing around AD 116 and no friend of Christianity, says the movement took its name from &ldquo;Christus,&rdquo; who &ldquo;suffered the extreme penalty&rdquo; under Pontius Pilate during the reign of Tiberius. The Jewish historian Josephus also refers to Jesus being condemned to the cross by Pilate, though parts of that passage were later added to by Christian copyists. The resurrection itself is a different kind of claim &mdash; historians can record that the first followers were convinced they had seen Jesus alive, and that they were willing to suffer for saying so, but whether it happened is where history hands the question over to each reader. Paul, writing within about twenty-five years, pointed people to living witnesses they could go and question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does this Easter trivia game work, and can I play it more than once?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Each round gives you twelve questions drawn at random from a bank of forty-six, all written specifically about the Easter story: Palm Sunday, the Last Supper, Gethsemane, the trials, the cross, the burial, the empty tomb and the forty days that followed, along with the Old Testament passages the Gospel writers saw being fulfilled. The answer order shuffles every time. After each answer you see the exact verse it comes from and a line on what is going on in the passage, so a wrong answer still teaches you something. There is no sign-up, nothing is saved, and your score is just for you &mdash; or for sharing with your family, church group or class if you want to see who knows the story best. Hit Play Again for a different mix. 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