Bible Passage Analysis Worksheet
Group Members:
1. _________________________ (Leader)
2.
3.
4.
Assigned Passage: _________________________
SECTION I: OBSERVATION (What does the text say?)
Goal: To identify the facts. Do not try to figure out the meaning yet.
A. Context B. Key Details
Author and Audience: Who wrote this Repeated Word/ Phrases: List any words
passage, and to whom? or Ideas that appear more than once.
Answer: Answer:
Before and After: In one sentence, what Chief Commands/Actions: List the main
happened immediately before this things the text tells people to do.
passage?
Answer:
Answer:
Setting/Situation: What was the general Tone/Feeling: What is the overall mood or
situation or problem facing the original emotional tone of the writing?
readers?
Answer:
Answer:
SECTION II: INTERPRETATION (What does the text
mean?)
Goal: To determine the author's original message based on the facts you
observed.
1. Group Paraphrase
In 5 sentences, re-write the assigned passage in your group's own clear, simple,
contemporary language.
Written Response:
2. The Main Idea (The "Big Idea")
If you had to summarize the entire assigned passage in one concise sentence, what
would it be?
Written Response:
SECTION III: APPLICATION (How does the text apply
to us?)
Goal: To translate the main idea into practical, life-changing action.
1. Personal Takeaway (The "Why it Matters")
Identify the most challenging, convicting, or encouraging truth in this passage for a
student your age today. Why is this message still relevant?
Written Response:
2. Action Step
Based on the truth in this passage, what is one specific, concrete, and measurable thing
your group agrees to try to do differently this week?
Written Response:
3. Group Prayer
Write a short, unified prayer to close your study, asking for God's help in understanding
or living out the passage.
Written Response:
Bible Passage Analysis Rubric
2 - 1 - Needs
Criteria 5 - Excellent 4 - Proficient 3 - Developing
Improvement
Identifies most Identifies some
Accurately identifies all Context and key
contextual context and a few
essential contextual words are missing
elements and key words, but the
I. Observation elements and lists the most or inaccurate.
relevant key words, information is
relevant key Shows minimal
but may miss 1-2 superficial or
words/phrases. engagement.
minor details. incomplete.
The Main Idea is concise, The Main Idea is The Main Idea is
The Main Idea is
precise, and perfectly accurate but may vague or partially
incorrect or
reflects the author's lack precision. The incorrect. The
II. missing. The
intended meaning. The Paraphrase is Paraphrase
Interpretation analysis
Paraphrase is clear, mostly clear but demonstrates
misinterprets the
accurate, and easily contains minor difficulty in grasping
meaning.
understood. inaccuracies. the core message.
Identifies relevant
Identifies challenging takeaways and a Application is
Application is
personal takeaways and specific Action general or cliché
missing or
III. Application provides a highly specific, Step, but the and lacks a direct
irrelevant to the
concrete, and relevant application could connection to the
assigned text.
Action Step. be deeper or more passage.
concrete.
Response is Response contains
Response is well-written, Response is poorly
generally clear with distracting errors in
IV. easy to read, and free of organized, difficult
few minor writing grammar or unclear
Collaboration grammatical/spelling errors. to understand, and
errors. writing. Evidence of
& Writing All group members' contains numerous
Collaboration is unequal group
contributions are evident. mechanical errors.
mostly balanced. contribution.
Individual Grading Sheet:
Per member you rate your fellow groupmates based on their contribution. Each
can have maximum of 10 points. Place your rate on a ¼ yellow paper.
EXAMPLE
Name of the Evaluator: Jose Dela Cruz
Name of Member 1 10
Name of Member 2 8
Name of Member 3 1
