Printable Bible Story Coloring Pages for Sunday School

Jesus delivered the words behind this prayer during the Sermon on the Mount, recorded in Matthew's Gospel as a response to his followers asking how they should pray. Rather than a private ritual, he offered a short model prayer meant to be spoken by everyone, which is part of why it became the most repeated prayer in Christian history across countless languages and denominations.

A single candle placed beside scripture is a visual shorthand that has appeared in prayer spaces for centuries, long before electric lighting made evening reading possible without a flame. The soft, steady light gave early readers a practical way to see the page after dark, and the image stuck around in religious art even after gas and electric lamps made a literal candle unnecessary.

According to Genesis 2, God formed Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed life into him, then placed him in a garden called Eden in the east. Eden is described as a well-watered region where "every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food" grew. A river flowed out of Eden and divided into four headwaters - the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. The Tigris and Euphrates are real rivers in modern Iraq and Turkey, which led many early commentators to place Eden somewhere in the ancient Near East, though its exact location has never been agreed upon.

The Book of Daniel opens in 605 BCE, when the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem and took a group of young Israelite nobles to his court at Babylon. Daniel was among them. He and three companions - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego - refused to adopt the Babylonian diet and religious practices, yet they excelled in wisdom and were given positions in the royal administration. The Book of Daniel covers their lives and visions through the Babylonian and Persian periods, ending during the reign of Cyrus the Great. Daniel 6, the lion's den episode, takes place under Darius the Mede - either a governor or king in the Persian administrative system, depending on the historical interpretation.

The story of David and Goliath is recorded in 1 Samuel 17, one of the most dramatic chapters in the Hebrew Bible. The Philistines and Israelites were facing each other in battle lines across the Valley of Elah. The Philistine champion Goliath, described as six cubits and a span tall - roughly nine feet and nine inches - came forward each morning and evening for forty days, challenging the Israelites to send a warrior to fight him in single combat, with the outcome deciding the war. No Israelite soldier volunteered. David, a young shepherd delivering food to his older brothers in the army, heard Goliath's challenge and was troubled that no one had responded.

Sheep herding was one of the oldest and most widespread occupations in the ancient Near East. Archaeological evidence from Mesopotamia and the Levant shows that sheep were domesticated at least ten thousand years ago, and their importance to ancient economies was enormous. Wool provided textiles, milk provided dairy products, and meat was a primary protein source. A skilled shepherd was not just a manual laborer but someone with detailed knowledge of terrain, water sources, weather patterns, and animal behavior. In a landscape where wells were widely spaced and predators like wolves and lions were common, the shepherd's job required courage, endurance, and continuous vigilance.

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The feeding of the five thousand is the only miracle of Jesus recorded in all four canonical Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This unique presence across all four accounts suggests early Christian communities considered it among the most significant events in Jesus's ministry, or at least the most widely remembered. The core elements are consistent: a large crowd in a remote place, a small amount of food (five loaves and two fish), Jesus blessing and multiplying the food, everyone eating and being satisfied, and a large quantity of leftovers. The number five thousand refers specifically to the men counted; Matthew 14:21 adds "not counting women and children," so the total crowd may have been considerably larger.

The Sea of Galilee is a freshwater lake in northern Israel, roughly 21 kilometers long and 13 kilometers wide. Despite being called a sea, it sits well below sea level - about 209 meters below the Mediterranean. The lake was the center of a busy fishing economy in first-century Judea, and many of Jesus's disciples were experienced fishermen who had worked its waters since childhood. Sudden storms on the lake were well known to local sailors because cold air from the surrounding hills could rush down and churn up dangerous waves with little warning. That geographic detail gives the walking-on-water account its weight: these were experienced sailors who understood the danger of night storms, not casual travelers unfamiliar with the water.

The Book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Hebrew Bible - only four chapters and forty-eight verses. It belongs to the section called the Minor Prophets (the Twelve) in the Hebrew Bible, which Christians place at the end of the Old Testament. Unlike most prophetic books, Jonah is narrative rather than a collection of oracles; it reads more like a short story than a prophetic speech. The main character, Jonah son of Amittai, also appears briefly in 2 Kings 14:25 as a prophet active during the reign of Jeroboam II in the eighth century BCE, giving the book a historical anchor in the Assyrian period of Near Eastern history.

According to the synoptic Gospels - Matthew, Mark, and Luke - the Last Supper took place on the night of Passover, the Jewish festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt. Jesus had sent two disciples ahead to prepare a large upper room in Jerusalem. The meal they shared was a Passover Seder, which included unleavened bread, bitter herbs, and wine. Passover was one of the three pilgrimage festivals when Jewish families from across Judea and the diaspora traveled to Jerusalem. The city would have been crowded with pilgrims that week, and the symbolic timing of the meal - a celebration of liberation from slavery - gave special weight to what Jesus said and did at the table.

The account of Moses parting the Red Sea appears in Exodus 14, one of the most dramatic chapters in the Hebrew Bible. By this point in the Exodus narrative, Moses had already confronted Pharaoh with ten plagues, the last of which - the death of firstborn sons - finally prompted Pharaoh to release the Israelites from generations of slavery. The Israelites left Egypt rapidly, but Pharaoh changed his mind and sent his army of six hundred chariots in pursuit. The Israelites found themselves trapped between the advancing Egyptian force and the sea in front of them. It was at this moment that God commanded Moses to raise his staff over the waters.

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Exodus 20 places the giving of the commandments on Mount Sinai, where Moses is described as spending forty days on the mountain before returning with the stone tablets. That long absence is part of the same story that includes the Israelites growing impatient and building a golden calf, a contrast the Bible draws between the law being written and the people's willingness to keep it.

Tradition holds that the ten commandments were divided across two tablets rather than carved onto one, with the first several addressing duty toward God and the remainder addressing duty toward other people. Splitting sacred agreements across a pair of tablets or stelae was also a known practice in the ancient Near East for formal treaties, giving the arrangement a familiar legal shape for people of that era.

The story of Noah's Ark is found in Genesis 6 through 9, the first book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. According to the narrative, God observed widespread moral corruption among people and decided to send a great flood. Noah, described as a righteous man, was chosen to build a large wooden vessel called an ark and fill it with his family and pairs of every kind of animal. The ark is described in Genesis 6:15 with specific measurements: three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. A cubit, based on the length of a forearm, is roughly eighteen to twenty-two inches - making the ark somewhere between 437 and 510 feet in length, comparable to the size of a modern ocean freighter.