Questions about John
67 honest questions people ask about John, each answered from the verses. In Favor, they come up right where they arise as you read.
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John 2Bible study →
- Jesus answers his mother, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come" (2:4). Was he turning her down?
- "He made a whip of cords" (2:15). Did Jesus strike people with it?
- John tells of the tables overturned here, in chapter 2. Mark, Matthew and Luke tell of Jesus driving people out of the temple later in their books. Did it happen twice?
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- Jesus says to the woman, "you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband" (4:18). Does John say what happened to her husbands, or why Jesus spoke of them?
- John says, "For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country" (4:44), and then that "the Galileans received him" (4:45). Which country does he mean?
- The nobleman begged Jesus to come down and heal his son, and Jesus answered, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe" (4:48). Was Jesus turning him away?
John 5Bible study →
- The Gospel says that "an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water" (5:4). Does Jesus use the water to make the man well?
- Jesus told the man, "Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you" (5:14). Did his sin cause his sickness?
- "The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well" (5:15). Why did he tell them?
- Jesus says the Scriptures "testify about me" (5:39), and of Moses, "he wrote about me" (5:46). Which passages did he mean?
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- Jesus told his brothers, "I am not yet going up to this feast" (7:8), and then he went up (7:10). How do the two fit?
- "He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water" (7:38). Which Scripture did Jesus mean?
- Some said, "Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" (7:42). Does John's Gospel say where Jesus was born?
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- "This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him" (9:3). Does that mean God made him blind for this?
- "Then they threw him out" (9:34). Was he put out of the synagogue?
- Jesus says, "I came into this world for judgment" (9:39). Doesn't John's Gospel also say he didn't come to judge?
John 10Bible study →
- Jesus speaks of "a thief and a robber" (10:1), a stranger (10:5) and "a hired hand" (10:12). Whom does he mean?
- "I have other sheep which are not of this fold" (10:16). Who are they?
- They said, "If you are the Christ, tell us plainly" (10:24), and Jesus answered, "I told you" (10:25). When had he told them?
- "It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem" (10:22). What feast was that?
John 11Bible study →
- The Gospel says Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus (11:5), and that when he heard Lazarus was sick, "he stayed two days in the place where he was" (11:6). Why did he stay?
- Jesus had said, "I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep" (11:11). Why did he weep?
- At the tomb Jesus said to Martha, "Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?" (11:40). When had he told her?
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- Mark and Matthew also tell of a woman pouring ointment on Jesus at Bethany. Is it the same anointing as Mary's?
- The multitude says, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever" (12:34). Which passage did they mean?
- A voice came out of the sky (12:28). The multitude who stood by said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him (12:29). What did they hear?
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John 17Bible study →
- "None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled" (17:12). Who is the son of destruction, and which Scripture?
- Jesus prays, "glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed" (17:5). What is this glory?
- "that they may all be one" (17:21). Who are "they", and what is the oneness Jesus prays for?
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- Jesus said, "It is finished!" (19:30). What was finished?
- John tells that when one of the soldiers pierced Jesus's side, "immediately blood and water came out" (19:34). What does it mean?
- Jesus said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" (19:26), and to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" (19:27). What did he mean?
John 20Bible study →
- The other disciple "saw and believed" (20:8). The next verse says, "For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead" (20:9). What did he believe, and which Scripture is meant?
- Jesus tells Mary, "Don’t hold me" (20:17). To Thomas he says, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands" (20:27). How do the two fit?
- Jesus "breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!" (20:22). What does it mean?
- "If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them" (20:23). What does this mean?
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