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According to the American Press Institute, A good story is about a topic the audience decides is either 1) interesting, or 2) important. But a great story achieves both goals by using storytelling.
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Here is a list of some of the most famous and greatest Old and New Testament Bible stories.
Old Testament
Creation universal | Genesis 1:1-25 |
Creation of mankind | Genesis 1:26-31 |
Adam formed | Genesis 2:7-8 |
Eve made | Genesis 2:20-25 |
Garden of Eden | Genesis 3 |
Cain and Abel | Genesis 4 |
Noah's flood | Genesis 6 to 8 |
God's blessings and covenant with Noah | Genesis 9:1-17 |
Tower of Babel | Genesis 11:1-9 |
Abraham's call | Genesis 12:1-3 |
God's covenant with Abraham | Genesis 15 |
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah | Genesis 18:16 to 19:29 |
Isaac's birth | Genesis 21:1-8 |
Sacrifice of Isaac (Abraham being tested) | Genesis 22:1-19 |
Marriage of Isaac | Genesis 24 |
Birth of Jacob and Esau | Genesis 25:19-26 |
Esau sells his birthright to Jacob for food | Genesis 25:27-34 |
Jacob and Rebekah's deception of Isaac and Esau for Isaac's blessing | Genesis 27:1-40 |
Jacob's ladder vision | Genesis 28:10-22 |
Jacob's wrestle with the angel and has his named changed to Israel | Genesis 32:24-32 |
Israel's (Jacob) trouble in the land | Genesis 34, 35 and 37 |
Three burials: Deborah, Rachel and Isaac | Genesis 35 |
Joseph's coat, dreams and sold by his brothers for twenty pieces of silver | Genesis 37 |
Israel (Jacob) blesses his twelve sons and then dies | Genesis 49 |
Birth of Moses and found by Pharaoh's daughter | Exodus 2:1-10 |
Moses kills an Egyptian, goes to Midian and gets a wife | Exodus 2:11-25 |
Burning bush - God speaks to Moses | Exodus 3:1 to 4:17 |
Egypt's nine plagues | Exodus 7:14 to 10:29 |
Tenth plague against Egypt threatened | Exodus 11 |
The Passover instituted | Exodus 12:1-20 |
The Passover communicated | Exodus 12:21-28 |
Tenth plague against Egypt inflicted | Exodus 12:29-30 |
The Exodus - God's deliverance of Israel | Exodus 12:31-51 |
Crossing the Red sea | Exodus 14 |
The Ten Commandments | Exodus 20:1-17 |
Golden calf made by Aaron | Exodus 32 |
Spies sent to Canaan | Numbers 13:1 to 14:45 |
City of Jericho | Joshua 6 |
Deborah and Barak | Judges 4 |
Gideon | Judges 6:1 to 8:35 |
Samson | Judges 13:1 to 16:31 |
Samson and Delilah | Judges 16:4-20 |
Ruth | Ruth 1:1 to 4:22 |
Samuel's birth | I Samuel 1 |
Hannah's (Samuel's mom) prayer to the Lord | I Samuel 2:1-10 |
David chosen by God | I Samuel 16:1-13 |
David and Goliath | I Samuel 17 |
David anointed king of Judah | II Samuel 2:1-11 |
David anointed king of Israel | II Samuel 5:1-12 |
David and Bathsheba | II Samuel 11 |
God is displeased with David | II Samuel 12:1-14 |
Solomon anointed king | I Kings 1:28-40 |
God's first appearance to Solomon | I Kings 3:2-15 |
God's second appearance to Solomon | I Kings 9:1-9 |
Queen of Sheba | I Kings 10:1-13 |
God is angry with Solomon | I Kings 11 |
Elijah and the prophets of Baal | I Kings 18:17-40 |
Elijah taken to heaven | II Kings 2:1-11 |
Job afflicted by Satan | Job 1:1 to 2:13 |
God speaks to Job | Job 38:1 to 42:9 |
God blesses Job | Job 42:10-13 |
Ezekiel's vision of dry bones | Ezekiel 37:1-14 |
Daniel and the kings food | Daniel 1:1-16 |
Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego put in the fiery furnace | Daniel 3 |
Daniel put in the lions den | Daniel 6 |
Jonah in the belly of the fish | Jonah 1:1 to 2:10 |
Here is a list of some of the greatest New Testament Bible stories.
New Testament Bible stories
Birth of John the Baptist | Luke 1 |
Birth of Jesus Christ | Matthew 1:1 to 2:23 Luke 1:26-56 and 2:1-52 |
Temptation of Jesus Christ in the wilderness | Matthew 4:1-11 Luke 4:1-13 |
Sermon on the mount | Matthew 5:1 to 7:29 |
Jesus Christ calming the storm | Matthew 8:23-27 Mark 4:35-41 Luke 8:22-25 |
Jesus Christ feeding five thousand | Matthew 14:15-21 Luke 9:12-17 |
Transfiguration of Jesus Christ | Mark 9:2-10 Luke 9:28-36 |
Jesus Christ's entry into Jerusalem | Matthew 21:1-11 Mark 11:1-11 Luke 19:29-44 |
Cleansing the temple of money changers | Matthew 21:12-16 Luke 19:45-46 |
Last supper | Matthew 26:14-29 Mark 14:12-25 Luke 22:8-38 John 13:1 to 17:26 |
Lord before Pilate and crucifixion | Matthew 27:11-54 Mark 15:1-39 Luke 23:1-47 John 18:28 to 19:30 |
Empty tomb and appearances | Matthew 28 Mark 16 Luke 24 John 20:1 to 21:15 |
Ascension | Luke 24:51-53 Acts 1:1-11 |
Paul's conversion | Acts 9:1-30 |
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