Testimony/Trial/Identity

Question 1

What the narrator’s very first words about the public ministry of John?

Answer 1

1:19 ‘This is the testimony given by John’

Question 2

John the Baptist had already been introduced as a witness

Answer 2

John 1:7, 8, 15

Question 3

The narrative ends with the theme of belief forming an inclusio

Answer 3

John 21:24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

Question 4

What are the verse references of the interrogations or mini-trial scenes?

Answer 4

John 5:19–47; 7:14–36; 8:12–58; 10:22–39

Question 5

The Jewish authorities want to kill Jesus

Answer 5

John 5:18; 7:1, 25

Question 6

The Jewish authorities want to arrest Jesus

Answer 6

John 7:32, 44, 45; 10:39

Question 7

The Jewish authorities want to stone Jesus

Answer 7

John 8:59; 10:31

Question 8

A man who born blind is healed and, in coming to belief in Jesus, undergoes his own interrogation by the authorities.

Answer 8

John 9

Question 9

The double trial of Jesus and Peter

Answer 9

John 18:15-27

Question 10

Jesus sums up his whole mission in terms of of testimony

Answer 10

John 18:37 The reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.