Here are the answers to the Spot the Mistake Bible quiz I set for you a couple of days ago, taken from my book Who Knows? The correct word is given in red.
1. . . . wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking ‘Where is the child who has
been born king of the Jews?’ (Matthew 2:1b, 2)
2. Consider the lilies of the field . . . even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed
like one of these. (Matthew 6:28b, 29)
3. As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew (or Levi) sitting at the
tax booth. (Matthew 9:9a)
4. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
(Matthew 5:6)
5. . . . it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who
is rich to enter the kingdom of God. (Matthew 19:24)
6. Now John was clothed with camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and
he ate locusts and wild honey. (Mark 1:6)
7. . . . before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times. (Mark 14:30)
8. In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should
be registered. (Luke 2:1)
9. . . . the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this
thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’ (Luke 2:15b)
10. He stood up to read and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him.
(Luke 4:16b, 17a)