Lesson 17 & 18

Question 1

What does the beginning of John’s Gospel echo?

Answer 1

The creation account in the Book of Genesis

Question 2

What does logos mean in John’s Gospel?

Answer 2

Knowledge, understanding, study, the intermediary between God and man, that which moves the universe in motion, word

Question 3

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John left us their Gospels as a substitute for what?

Answer 3

The physical presence of the eyewitnesses

Question 4

Name three (3) recurring themes throughout John’s Gospel

Answer 4

a) Light / darkness (blindness)
b) Living / dead
c) “His own”

Question 5

In antiquity, what did it mean to be “in the bosom of” someone?

Answer 5

To be so close to someone that you knew them inside out

Question 6

What is the function of the Son?

Answer 6

To explain, interpret, or make known the Father

Question 7

John’s Gospel speaks on two different levels. List each, and provide an example

Answer 7

a) Literal
b) Symbolic
c) Nicodemus (“born again”), woman at the well (“living water”)

Question 8

In leaving behind his grave clothes, what was Jesus indicating?

Answer 8

His resurrection was forever and death had no hold on him

Question 9

What does John declare and interpret correctly?

Answer 9

What is invisible to everyone else

Question 10

Finish this sentence:

Just as Jesus reveals the invisible God, so John ___________________

Answer 10

Reveals the now-invisible Jesus

Question 11

What was “sitting under a fig tree” an idiom for?

Answer 11

Studying Torah

Question 12

What is the fig tree often used to signify?

Answer 12

Israel itself

Question 13

Upon which two (2) biblical figures did angels ascend and descend?

Answer 13

a) Jacob

b) Jesus

Question 14

Who symbolically forms the staircase between heaven and earth?

Answer 14

Jesus’ line (“the sons of God”)

Question 15

What was the bridegroom’s responsibility at the wedding feast?

Answer 15

To provide the wine for the wedding ceremony and to make sure it didn’t run out

Question 16

Why didn’t Jesus want to perform the miracle of turning water into wine?

Answer 16

As soon as He began performing signs, the rest of the signs would ultimately lead to Calvary (His “hour”)

Question 17

Unlike every other bridegroom, Jesus provides the good wine last. What is this a symbolic reference to?

Answer 17

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit (everything good happens at the end)

Question 18

When John refers to the Jews, to what is he specifically referring?

Answer 18

The world at large that is informed by the devil and is against Jesus

Question 19

In John 3:3, what two (2) meanings can the Greek word ἄνωθεν(anothen) have?

Answer 19

a) Again

b) From above

Question 20

Finish this sentence:

Just as it is impossible for a foetus to understand what life is like outside the womb, so it is impossible for _______________________

Answer 20

Those who are not born of the Spirit to conceive the reality of the kingdom of heaven

Question 21

The scene in John 4 (Jesus sitting on a well) is a fulfilment of which OT prophecy?

Answer 21

The Temple sitting upon the living waters (Ezekiel 47)