Miracles and Plagues
This was the very first public miracle performed by Jesus, taking place at a wedding feast in Cana.
What is turning water into wine?
He was the very first king appointed over Israel, chosen from the tribe of Benjamin, but he ultimately lost his crown due to disobedience.
Who is King Saul?
This is the exact number of days and nights it rained globally while Noah and his family were safely locked inside the Ark.
What is 40?
Jesus was raised in the town of Nazareth, but Micah's prophecy and the Gospel accounts confirm he was actually born in this specific town.
What is Bethlehem?
In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites used a unique linguistic test to catch fleeing Ephraimites at the rivers of the Jordan. Anyone who could not correctly pronounce this specific Hebrew word—instead mispronouncing it with an "S" sound—was immediately executed.
What is Shibboleth? (Judges 12:6)
Out of the 10 infamous plagues sent upon Egypt, this specific insect disaster was the eighth plague, swarming the land and eating every green thing left after the hail.
What are locusts?
This bold Old Testament prophet famously challenged 450 prophets of Baal to a supernatural altar showdown on Mount Carmel.
Who is Elijah?
When Jesus fed the crowd of 5,000 people, the disciples miraculously ended up collecting this exact number of full baskets of leftovers.
What is 12?
Moses famously received the Ten Commandments directly from God while standing on top of this smoke-covered mountain.
What is Mount Sinai (or Horeb)?
In the Book of Acts, a Jewish high priest named Ananias orders those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth. Paul fiercely fires back at him, calling him by this specific architectural insult.
What is a "whitewashed wall"? (Acts 23:3)
In the book of 2 Kings, Elisha performs a mind-boggling miracle where this heavy iron object miraculously floats to the top of the Jordan River.
What is an axe head?
When King Hezekiah fell terminally ill, he wept and prayed to God for mercy. God sent the prophet Isaiah back to him with a promise to supernaturally extend the king's life by exactly this many years.
What is 15 years? (2 Kings 20:6)
According to the Book of Revelation, this is the exact number of total gates found on the city walls of the New Jerusalem.
What is 12?
Jonah famously ran away from God's command to preach. Instead of heading to Nineveh, he boarded a ship heading to this distant port city.
What is Tarshish?
When the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant and set it up inside the temple of their false god Dagon, they returned the next morning to find the statue of Dagon fallen face-down. On the second morning, Dagon had fallen again, but with these two specific body parts broken off.
What are his head and hands (or palms)? (1 Samuel 5:4)
During the plague of boils, God didn't just make the boils appear supernaturally. He commanded Moses to take handfuls of this specific substance from a furnace and toss it into the air.
What is soot (or ashes)? (Exodus 9:8)
This Old Testament prophet was given a bizarre command by God to marry an unfaithful woman named Gomer as a living visual illustration of Israel's unfaithfulness to God.
Who is Hosea?
In the Book of Judges, Gideon famously narrows his massive army down to just this many men based on how they drink water.
What is 300? Judges 7:6
When the Apostle John received his epic apocalyptic visions recorded in the Book of Revelation, he was living in exile on this specific Mediterranean island.
What is the Island of Patmos?
In Acts chapter 20, a young man named Eutychus famously falls completely asleep during a very long sermon by Paul, causing him to plunge out of a window from this specific floor of the building.
What is the third floor? (Acts 20:9)
In the Gospel of John, when Jesus heals the blind man by spitting on the ground and making mud, he commands the man to go wash the mud off in this specific, named pool of water.
What is the Pool of Siloam? (John 9:7)
This obscure prophet boldly confronted King Ahab right before his final battle, predicting his death. Ahab hated him because, as the king put it, "he never prophesies anything good about me, but always evil."
Who is Micaiah son of Imlah? (1 Kings 22:8)
Following the resurrection, the Apostle Peter and several disciples go fishing but catch nothing all night. Jesus tells them to cast on the right side, resulting in a miraculous catch. John explicitly records the exact, specific number of large fish pulled ashore in that net.
What is 153? (John 21:11)
In Joshua chapter 7, the Israelites suffer a shocking, embarrassing military defeat against this tiny, minor city right after their massive victory at Jericho.
What is Ai?
In Exodus chapter 24, Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and 70 elders of Israel ascend Mount Sinai and physically see the God of Israel. The text notes that under God's feet was a pavement made of this specific precious blue stone, clear as the sky itself.
What is lapis lazuli (or sapphire)? (Exodus 24:10)