Children’s Bible Stories
Building Background
As you read the selected short stores from the Bible, please remember that this is NOT
for the purpose of converting people to or from Christianity. Please look at this as building
background knowledge for the next piece we read.
Remember that one of the three most alluded to texts in the Western world is the Bible,
whether you are familiar with it or not. Our purpose, then, is to provide all students with at least
a rudimentary, or basic, understanding of some of the more alluded to stories in this piece of
literature.
As you read each short story, please provide a short summary for each of the listed
items.
1) Garden of Eden
2) The apple or “fruit”
3) Cain
4) Walking on water
5) Betrayal / Judas
6) The Last Supper
7) Denial of Jesus
8) Crucifixion
9) Rising from the dead