Questions about John
Gospel of John - Bible Survey
Who wrote the book of John? Who was the author of John?
Why did God give us four Gospels?
What is the harmony of the Gospels?
When were the Gospels written?
What were the key events in the life of Jesus Christ?
What is the significance of the repeated phrase come and see in the Gospel of John?
What does John 1:1,14 mean when it says that Jesus is the Word of God?
What does it mean that the Word was with God (John 1:1)?
What does it mean that “the Word was God” in John 1:1?
What does it mean that the Word was in the beginning (John 1:1)?
What does it mean that Jesus was in the beginning with God (John 1:2)?
What does it mean that all things were made through Him (John 1:3)?
What does it mean that “in Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4)?
What does it mean that the light shines in the darkness (John 1:5)?
What does it mean that the darkness has not overcome it (John 1:5)?
What does it mean that Jesus is the true light (John 1:9)?
What is the “will of man” in John 1:13?
What does it mean that the Word became flesh (John 1:14)?
What does it mean that we beheld His glory (John 1:14)?
What is the meaning of “grace upon grace” in John 1:16?
Who was John the Baptist in the Bible?
What is the voice of one calling in the wilderness (Isaiah 40:3; John 1:23)?
What is the significance of John baptizing in Bethabara (John 1:28)?
What does it mean that Jesus is the Lamb of God?
What does it mean that the Holy Spirit descended like a dove (Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:32)?
Why did Nathaniel ask, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth” (John 1:46)?
Why is the order of Jesus’ calling His disciples different in some of the gospels?
Why did Jesus choose the wedding at Cana for His first miracle?
Why did Jesus say, “My hour has not yet come,” but then performs a miracle (John 2:4)?
Was Jesus being rude to Mary when He referred to her as “woman” in John 2:4?
Did Jesus change the water into wine or grape juice?
How many times did Jesus cleanse the temple? Why did He cleanse the temple?
What does it mean that Jesus overturns tables (John 2:15)?
Why did Jesus refer to the temple as “my Father’s house” (John 2:16)?
What does it mean that “zeal for your house will consume me” in John 2:17?
What did Jesus mean by, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19)?
What does it mean to be born of water (John 3:5)?
What does it mean to be born of the Spirit?
Does John 3:5 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation?
What does “born of the flesh” mean (John 3:6)?
What is the meaning of “we speak of what we know” in John 3:11?
Does John 3:13 mean that no one went to heaven before Jesus?
What does it mean that no one has ascended to heaven (John 3:13)?
Why did Jesus say that the Son of Man must be lifted up (John 3:14)?
What does John 3:16 mean?
What does it mean that Jesus is God’s only begotten son?
What does it mean that God did not send His Son to condemn the world (John 3:17)?
What does it mean that he who does not believe is condemned already (John 3:18)?
What does it mean that people loved darkness rather than light (John 3:19)?
Why did John the Baptist say, “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30)?
What should we learn from the woman at the well?
What is “the gift of God” in John 4:10?
What does it mean that believers in Christ will never thirst (John 4:14)?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “You worship what you do not know” in John 4:22?
What does it mean that salvation is of the Jews (John 4:22)?
Who are true worshipers (John 4:23)?
What did Jesus mean when He spoke of living water?
What is the water of life?
What does it mean that the fields are white for harvest (John 4:35)?
Why did Jesus tell people to “go and sin no more” if sinlessness is impossible?
What does it mean that God is spirit?
What happened at the Pool of Bethesda?
Why did Jesus ask the man at the Pool of Bethesda, “Do you want to be made well?” (John 5:6)?
What is the significance of Jesus telling the lame man to, “Take up your bed and walk” (John 5:8)?
Why did Jesus heal on the Sabbath?
What does it mean that Jesus made Himself equal with God (John 5:18)?
What does it mean that believers have passed from death to life (John 5:24)?
What can we learn from Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000?
What was the meaning of Jesus walking on water?
What are the seven I AM statements in the Gospel of John?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “I am the Bread of Life” (John 6:35)?
What does “whoever comes to me I will never cast out” mean (John 6:37)?
What does “raise him up at the last day” mean (John 6:44)?
What does it mean that the flesh profits nothing (John 6:63)?
Did Jesus lie to His brothers in John 7:8–10?
How can we judge with righteous judgment (John 7:24)?
How will rivers of living water flow from believers (John 7:38)?
What did Jesus mean when He said we must eat His flesh and drink His blood?
Does John 7:53—8:11 belong in the Bible?
What can we learn from the woman caught in adultery?
What was Jesus writing in the dirt when the Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery?
What did Jesus mean when He said “He who is without sin can cast the first stone” in John 8:7?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “neither do I condemn you” in John 8:11?
What did Jesus mean when He said “I am the Light of the World” (John 8:12)?
Why did Jesus spit for some of His miracles?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “if you abide in my word” in John 8:31?
What does it mean that you will know the truth in John 8:32?
What does it mean that “the truth will set you free” (John 8:32)?
What does it mean that we are free indeed (John 8:36)?
What does it mean that Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44)?
What is the significance of Jesus telling some of the Jewish religious leaders, “You are of your father the devil” (John 8:44)?
What does it mean that there is no truth in the devil (John 8:44)?
What is the significance of Jesus saying, “Before Abraham was, I am!” in John 8:58?
Did Jesus exist before Abraham?
What happened at the Pool of Siloam?
What did Jesus mean when He said “I AM”?
What are the works of God in John 9:3?
Why are we told to work while it is day (John 9:4)?
How is Jesus the “True Shepherd” in John 10:1-5?
What did Jesus mean when He said “I am the good Shepherd?”
What did Jesus mean when He said “I am the door” (John 10:7)?
What does it mean that the thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10)?
What does it mean that God gives us life more abundantly (John 10:10)?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold” (John 10:16)?
What is the one shepherd and one flock that Jesus talks about in John 10:16?
What does it mean that “my sheep hear my voice” (John 10:27)?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “No one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand” (John 10:29)?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30)?
Why was Thomas called the Twin (John 11:16)?
What did Jesus mean when He said “I am the Resurrection and the Life” (John 11:25)?
What does it mean to groan in the spirit (John 11:33)?
What is the significance of Jesus being anointed (John 12:1–8)?
Jesus wept - why did Jesus weep?
Do we receive mansions in heaven?
What did Jesus mean when He said that he who loves his life will lose it (John 12:25)?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “If I be lifted up,” in John 12:32?
What does it mean that Jesus did not come to judge the world (John 12:47)?
What is an alabaster box?
What does it mean that Jesus loved His own to the end (John 13:1)?
What does “Satan entered into him” mean regarding Judas in John 13:27?
What does it mean to have love for one another (John 13:35)?
What is the new commandment?
What is the Upper Room Discourse?
What does it mean to let not your heart be troubled in John 14:1?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2)?
What was the significance of Jesus washing the feet of the disciples?
What did Jesus mean when He said “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6)?
What did Jesus mean when He said He would give us “whatever you ask in my name”?
Who is the Spirit of truth in John 14:17?
How should Jesus’ saying, “I will not leave you as orphans,” give us hope (John 14:18)?
What does it mean that the Holy Spirit will teach you all things (John 14:26)?
What does Jesus mean when He says, “Peace I leave with you” (John 14:27)?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “If you love me keep my commandments”?
Is it really possible for Christians to do greater works than Jesus?
If Jesus was God, why did He say "The Father is greater than I" in John 14:28?
What did Jesus mean when He said “I am the True Vine” (John 15:1)?
Does the vine and branches passage in John 15 mean that salvation can be lost?
What does “you are already clean because of the word” mean (John 15:3)?
What does “that your joy may be full” mean (John 15:11)?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “Love each other as I have loved you” (John 15:12)?
Why is there no greater love than to lay down your life (John 15:13)?
Why did Jesus say, “I have called you friends” in John 15:15?
What does it mean that the Holy Spirit will convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment?
What does it mean that the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth (John 16:13)?
What does “that your joy may be full” mean in John 16:24?
On what basis can believers be of good cheer (John 16:33)?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “I have overcome the world,” in John 16:33?
What is Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer?
If Jesus is God, why did He say that the Father is the only true God in John 17:3?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “Your word is truth” in John 17:17?
Who is the son of perdition?
What is the significance of Jesus saying, “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36)?
Is Jesus God? Why should I believe that Jesus is God?
What is the significance of the triumphal entry?
Who was the disciple whom Jesus loved?
What happened in the upper room?
What is the significance of the rooster crowing in regards to Peter denying Jesus three times?
What happened during Jesus’ last hours on earth?
What did Jesus mean when He referred to the greater sin in John 19:11?
What are the last seven sayings of Christ and what do they mean?
What does it mean that all things were now accomplished (John 19:28)?
Why did Jesus say, “I thirst,” from the cross?
What did Jesus mean when He said, “Woman, behold your son” on the cross?
Why did Jesus entrust Mary to the apostle John instead of to His brothers?
What did Jesus mean when He said “It is finished”?
What is the significance of the “folded napkin” in Christ’s tomb after the resurrection?
Why did Jesus tell Mary, “Do not cling to me” (John 20:17)?
After His resurrection, why did Jesus tell Mary not to touch Him, but later tell Thomas to touch Him?
What does it mean in John 20:22 that Jesus breathed on the disciples and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit?”
What is the correct interpretation of John 20:23?
What is the meaning of the 153 fish in John 21:11?
Why did Jesus ask Peter “Do you love me?” three times?
Why did Jesus tell Peter to “feed my sheep” in John 21?
Can the various resurrection accounts from the four Gospels be harmonized?
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