Lesson Seventeen

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) Literalb) 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