Gospel of John (CBS)/Week 2/Study Guide

I have composed the following questions to help you study for the Unit 2 Test in four weeks. These questions are similar to the ones that will be on the test, and might even be the same. I'd suggest focusing on answering them as if they were test questions, because then you will be more prepared to answer them. You can use the Week 2, 3, 4, and 5 talk pages to seek assistance with these questions and I will personally answer questions at weekly meetings.

1. What was the Jews' initial reaction to John?
2. What group sent messengers to John to find out his purpose?
3. Who did John deny being?
4. Who did John say he was?
5. What was the reason why John was baptizing people?
6. What did John say about Jesus?
7. How did Jesus get his first disciples?
8. What key phrase did Jesus say to Phillip? Why is this phrase so important?
9. Who does Phillip say he has found?
10. What did Jesus say about Nathanael? Why did he say this?
11. What does Jesus say Nathanael will see in the future?
12. What was the first miracle Jesus performed?
13. Where did Jesus perform this miracle ?
14. What effect did this miracle have? How did it benefit Jesus's ministry?
15. Where did Jesus go afterwards?
16. Why did Jesus choose to go to Jerusalem?
17. What did Jesus find in the Temple?
18. What did Jesus think of what he found in the Temple and how did he react to it?
19. What bold statement did Jesus make to the Jews and why did it shock them?
20. What did Jesus really mean by this statement?
21. What did Jesus tell Nicodemus was the only way into the Kingdom of God?
22. What does this conversation show about the Pharisees?
23. Why do people despise the Light?
24. What was the big deal about Jesus asking for a drink from a Samaritan woman?
25. What's the difference between water and living water?
26. What did Jesus say his food was?
27. What is the point of the metaphorical ripe harvest?
28. How did the Samaritarians come to believe in Jesus?
29. What sort of welcome did Jesus receive in Galilee and why?
30. How long did it take for the official's son to get well?
31. What did Jesus do to the blind man and why did it anger the Jews?
32. Is the Son able to stand alone? Where does his power come from and why should he be honored?
33. Who did Moses write about? What did Jesus say about those who didn't believe his writings and why?
34. What was the real meaning and purpose of the Feeding of the Five Thousand?
35. What did Jesus tell the seekers to work for?
36. What is the Bread of Life and what benefit does it bring?
37. What are the streams of living water and how do they come about?
38. Why was the adulteress freed? What point was Jesus making?
39. Why was Jesus's self witness valid?
40. When you honor Jesus, who else are you honoring?
41. Why were the Jews enslaved? What were they enslaved to?
42. How could the Jews escape slavery?
43. Who did Jesus say the Jews were children of and why?
44. What did Jesus say was the cause of the blind man's affliction?
45. How many flocks did Jesus say there should be?
46. Why is Jesus the Good Shepherd?
47. Who are the other sheep that Jesus refers to?
48. Why was Jesus able to lay his life down it take it back up?
49. Why did the Jews want to stone Jesus?
50. What did Jesus say about Lazarus when he heard he was sick and why is this significant?
51. Why didn't the disciples want to go back to Judea?
52. How do we know that Lazarus was dead?
53. When did Mary believe her brother would be resurrected and what was Jesus's response?
54. What was the Sanhedrin's reaction to the resurrection of Lazarus and why?
55. Mary uses fragrant oil on Jesus's feet. What did his remarks indicate?
56. Why was Judas disturbed by the fragrant oil?
57. What was so significant about the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem?
58. Who accompanied Jesus into Jerusalem? How did these people help Jesus's ministry?
59. What Jesus say we need to do to serve him and what will be the result?
60. What did Jesus mean by he would be lifted up? Why did this confuse his followers?