The Lord's Prayer · 5 min
The Lord's Prayer quiz
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What did one of the disciples ask Jesus?
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Reading it aloud instead? Here are all 8 questions with the answers and the verses behind them, from Object Lesson on Prayer: The Lord's Prayer in a Lunch Bag.
1. What did one of the disciples ask Jesus?
- A. Lord, teach us to pray
- B. Lord, make us rich
- C. Lord, where do you live?
- D. Lord, can we go fishing?
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Answer: A. Lord, teach us to pray. After Jesus finished praying, one of his disciples said, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples" (Luke 11:1).
2. What did Jesus say God knows before we even ask?
- A. Our favorite color
- B. What we need
- C. How long our prayer will be
- D. Nothing
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Answer: B. What we need. "Your Father knows what things you need before you ask him" (Matthew 6:8). So prayer doesn't need fancy or extra-long words (Matthew 6:7).
3. Where did Jesus say to go when you pray?
- A. To the street corner so people see you
- B. Into your room with the door shut
- C. Only to the Temple
- D. Up a mountain
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Answer: B. Into your room with the door shut. "Enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret" (Matthew 6:6).
4. Finish the line: "Our Father in ___."
- A. Jerusalem
- B. Heaven
- C. The sky
- D. The church
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Answer: B. Heaven. "Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy" (Matthew 6:9).
5. Finish the line: "Give us today our daily ___."
- A. Bread
- B. Toys
- C. Money
- D. Fish
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Answer: A. Bread. "Give us today our daily bread" (Matthew 6:11). Bread was the main food in Jesus's day, so this meant "everything we need to live today."
6. In Matthew's version, what does the prayer ask God to forgive?
- A. Our debts
- B. Our homework
- C. Our neighbors
- D. Nothing
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Answer: A. Our debts. "Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors" (Matthew 6:12). Luke's version says "forgive us our sins" (Luke 11:4).
7. How many times a day did Daniel kneel and pray?
- A. Once
- B. Twice
- C. Three times
- D. Ten times
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Answer: C. Three times. Daniel "kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God" (Daniel 6:10).
8. In Jesus's stories, when did day workers get paid?
- A. Once a year
- B. Every evening
- C. Never
- D. When they asked
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Answer: B. Every evening. "When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages'" (Matthew 20:8). One day's pay bought one day's food.