I heard about a young preacher one time who was interviewing for his first church. He had never pastored a church before and the pastor search committee had invited him to come for an interview. As he was being questioned by the committee, the chairman asked, “Son, do you know the Bible?” He replied, “Yes sir, I really know the Bible.” The chairman said, “What part of the Bible do you know the best?” He said, “Well, I know the New Testament the best.” “Well,” said the chairman, “Why don’t you just tell us something about the New Testament. For instance, why don’t you tell the committee the story of the prodigal son?”
He said, “Alright. There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus. He went down to Jericho by night and fell upon stony ground and the thorns choked him half to death. The next morning Solomon and his wife, Gomorrah, came by and carried him down to the ark of Moses to take care of it. But as he was going through the eastern gate to the ark he caught his hair in a tree limb and he hung there 40 days and 40 nights. Afterward he was hungry and the ravens came and fed him. The next day the three wise men came and carried him down to the boat dock and he caught a ship to Nineveh. When he got there he found Delilah sitting on a wall. He said to the men with her, ‘Chuck her down, boys.’ And they said, ‘How many times shall we chuck her down—seven times?’ And he said, ‘Nay, but 70 times seven.’ And they chucked her down 490 times and she burst asunder in their midst and they picked up 12 baskets of fragments. Now, the question is, in the resurrection, whose wife is she going to be?”
When he was finished the chairman of the committee said, “Fellows, I think we ought to call him. He is awfully young, but he really knows his Bible.”
There are a lot of people who don’t know nearly as much about the Bible as they think.