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Bible facts: April
A fact for each day of April, as the app shows it as «Fact of the day» in 2026, with its verse in the Berean Standard Bible.
- April 1
The notice on Jesus’ cross was written in three languages — Hebrew, Latin, and Greek — and many people read it, because the place was near the city.
John 19:20Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
- April 2
The wood of Noah’s ark, Hebrew gofer, is named nowhere else in the Bible, and no one knows for sure what tree it was; cypress is one common guess.
Gen 6:14Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
- April 3
After David killed Goliath, the Philistine’s sword was kept at the sanctuary of Nob, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod, until David came and took it.
1 Sam 21:9The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
- April 4
In 1961 archaeologists at Caesarea found a reused stone bearing the name of Pontius Pilate and his title, prefect of Judea — the first inscription found that names him.
Matt 27:2They bound Him, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.
- April 5
In the Gospel of John, John the Baptist is never called “the Baptist” — he is simply “John.”
John 1:6There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.
- April 6
After one day of gleaning, Ruth beat out about an ephah of barley — roughly 11 to 14 kilograms of grain.
Ruth 2:17Read the articleSo Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.
- April 7
A stone notice from Herod’s temple, found in 1871, warns in Greek that any foreigner caught beyond the barrier will have himself to blame for his death.
Acts 21:28–29Read the articlecrying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
- April 8
The coastal road through Philistine land was the shorter way from Egypt to Canaan. Egyptian records show it as Egypt’s main military road, guarded by a chain of forts.
Exod 13:17When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
- April 9
Saul hunted David in the wilderness of En-gedi. Nubian ibex, the wild goats of the region, still climb the cliffs above its springs today.
1 Sam 24:2See the placeSo Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
- April 10
Beekeeping was known in Israel: rows of clay hives of the 10th–9th century BC, the oldest yet excavated, were dug up at Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley in 2007.
Judg 14:8Read the articleWhen Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
- April 11
Joash was seven years old when he was crowned — the youngest king the Bible names — after six years hidden in the temple.
2 Kgs 11:21Joash was seven years old when he became king.
- April 12
The words about beating swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks appear twice, almost identical: in Isaiah and in Micah.
Mic 4:3Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
- April 13
Job names star groups still known today: the Hebrew Kimah and Kesil are usually taken to be the Pleiades and Orion.
Job 38:31Topic: StarsCan you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
- April 14
In the Jubilee year the ram’s horn sounded through the land on the Day of Atonement; the shofar is the only instrument of ancient Israel still played in its original form.
Lev 25:9Read the articleThen you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.
- April 15
In 1990 a decorated bone box inscribed “Joseph son of Caiaphas” was found in a family tomb in Jerusalem. Josephus gives the high priest’s name as Joseph Caiaphas, and many scholars think it was his.
Matt 26:57Those who had arrested Jesus led Him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.
- April 16
Paul writes that he had already been shipwrecked three times — before the wreck off Malta that Acts tells — and once spent a night and a day in the open sea.
2 Cor 11:25Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
- April 17
On the shoulder pieces of the high priest’s ephod were two precious stones, each engraved with six of the names of the sons of Israel.
Exod 28:9–10Read the articleTake two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel: six of their names on one stone and the remaining six on the other, in the order of their birth.
- April 18
Jacob worked for his uncle Laban for 20 years: 14 for his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and six for his flocks.
Gen 31:41Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
- April 19
Paul saw an altar in Athens inscribed “to an unknown god”. Ancient writers, among them Pausanias and Philostratus, also mention altars to unknown gods at Athens.
Acts 17:23See the placeFor as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
- April 20
Fig leaves are the first plant the Bible names: Adam and Eve sewed them together as coverings. The fig tree can give two or three crops a year.
Gen 3:7Read the articleAnd the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
- April 21
When Jeremiah bought a field, both copies of the deed — one sealed, one left open — were put in a clay jar so they would last a long time.
Jer 32:14Read the article“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
- April 22
Only the Gospel of John names the high priest’s servant whose ear was cut off at Jesus’ arrest: Malchus.
John 18:10Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
- April 23
The Book of Numbers quotes a few lines from “the Book of the Wars of the LORD” — a book that has not survived.
Num 21:14See the placeTherefore it is stated in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon,
- April 24
The coin shown to Jesus for the tax was a denarius, a small silver coin of about 3.9 grams. Most likely it bore the head of Emperor Tiberius and the title “son of the divine Augustus.”
Matt 22:19–20Read the articleShow Me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought Him a denarius. “Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”
- April 25
The Feast of Dedication, today’s Hanukkah, appears once in the Gospels: it was winter, and Jesus was walking in Solomon’s Colonnade in the temple courts.
John 10:22–23Read the articleAt that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.
- April 26
The ark came to rest on “the mountains of Ararat” — a land rather than one peak. Assyrian records call it Urartu, a kingdom around Lake Van in today’s eastern Turkey.
Gen 8:4See the placeOn the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
- April 27
Solomon composed 3,000 proverbs — far more than the whole Book of Proverbs contains.
1 Kgs 4:32Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
- April 28
Abraham’s servant gave Rebekah gold jewelry at the well, among it two gold bracelets weighing, by the Hebrew text, 10 shekels — about 114 grams of gold.
Gen 24:22Read the articleAnd after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
- April 29
Back in Bethlehem after losing her husband and both sons, Naomi asked the women to call her Mara, “bitter.”
Ruth 1:20“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
- April 30
The disciple from Joppa had a name in two languages: Tabitha in Aramaic and Dorcas in Greek. Both mean “gazelle.”
Acts 9:36Topic: Deer and gazellesIn Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which is translated as Dorcas), who was always occupied with works of kindness and charity.
Sources
Berean Standard Bible · Public domain