Lesson 18

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Studying Torah

Question 2

What is the fig tree often used to signify?

Answer 2

Israel itself

Question 3

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

Answer 3

a) Jacob
b) Jesus

Question 4

Who symbolically forms the staircase between heaven and earth?

Answer 4

Jesus’ line (“the sons of God”)

Question 5

Who was responsible for providing the wine for the wedding ceremony and making sure it didn’t run out?

Answer 5

The bridegroom

Question 6

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

Answer 6

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

a) Again
b) From above

Question 9

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 9

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