Book of John

How does Jesus say one can ENTER the kingdom of God?

born of water and the Spirit (as opposed to one must be born again to SEE the kingdom of God)

How many times is "night" mentioned in John?

1. Nicodemus, coming from the night to approach Jesus (from the night, TO the light) 2. Judas, leaves the light of the world and goes out into the darkness (LEAVES the light, to the night)

Pneuma (wind) is also the word for {...}

Spirit; the wind blows where it wants, you cannot hear where it comes from or where it goes..so is everyone who is born of the Spirit

Who did Jesus call "The teacher of Israel"?

Nicodemus the Pharisee. "are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?"

Who did Jesus tell "unless one is born again (de novo/out of the blue), he cannot see the kingdom of God"?

Nicodemus

{...} precedes faith.

Regeneration -Bruce Gore (faith is a gift. You don't get faith and THEN be born again, it's other way)

What are the 2 meanings of the Greek word for destroy, which Jesus uses when he tells the Jewish leaders who were asking for a sign, “DESTROY this temple and in 3 days I will raise it up”.

When does Jesus use λύω (pronounced loo'-oh), meaning both to destroy (or dissolve integrity of something) and to set free/untie/to loose.

What mobile entity preceded the temple in the Old Testament?

Tabernacle. John says “And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth”

Who does John say “hates the light”?

Everyone practicing evil hates the light. John 3:20

Who’s well did Jesus stop at in Samaria?

Jacob’s well (near the plot of land Jacob had given to Joseph)

Which gospel does the Women at the Well appear in?

Only John

Who were the Samaritans (woman at the well)?

Rejected group by Jews because they were racially different (from old Assyrian empire conquering North Israel), they rejected the temple in Jerusalem (had their own in mount Gerizim), and they only believed the first 5 books of the Torah.

Which old testament prophets talked about the “living water”, which Jesus told the Samaritan woman she would have received if she asked.

Isiah (ch. 44), Zechariah (ch. 14), Jeremiah (ch. 2), Ezekial (ch. 47)

Ephrem the Syrian describes the sequence of the Samaritan woman’s response to Jesus as: “she tried to get the better of a {…}, she showed her dislike of the {…}, she heckled the {…}, swept off her feet by the {…}, and adored the {…}.

Thirsty man. Jew. Rabbi. Prophet. Christ

How did the French existential philospher Jean-Paul Sartre describe God and his formidable reason to not believe in God?

a ‘cosmic voyeur’ (the Woman at the Well went and preached that Jesus had told her everything she had done)

What was the 1st sign Jesus performed in Galilee?

Turning water into wine at the wedding

What is the 2nd sign Jesus performed in Galilee (after returning from Judea having achieved rockstar status)?

Healing the official’s son (Jesus simply told him that he will live, and the official went home to Capernaum to find the son’s fever had gone at that very moment)

After the Nobleman’s son is healed, he and his entire household believed. In the book of Luke, it’s suggested that the wife of the official was {…}.

Joanna, who became a follower of Jesus and supported him financially from her wealth

When is the first time John mentions the Sabbath in his book?

When Jesus heals the lame man at the Bethsaida pool on the Sabbath, which is why the Jews started persecuting him

How long had the outcast been ill at the pool of Bethsaida?

38 years (which subtly hints at a predicament that’s your own fault, since the wandering Israelites were actually at 38 years when they got cold feet trying to enter and conquer the promised land when the spies brought back a scary report of giants)

How does C.H. Dodd describe the invalid at the pool’s response to Jesus asking, “do you want to be well?”

A feeble excuse with a lack of desire (he gave lots of excuses why he couldn’t get into the pool)

Where else does Jesus say, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?

To the paralytic lowered through the ceiling in Mark

What does Jesus tell the healed invalid man from the pool once he sees him again in the temple?

Do not sin anymore to keep anything bad from happening to you

When Jesus responds to Nathanael who asked “can anything good come out of Nazareth?”, and says “Truly I say unto you, you will see Heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man”, what is this a reference too from the old testament?

Jacob’s ladder, when he dreamed about a ladder on earth reaching to heaven with the angels ascending and descending

The Jews accused Jesus of breaking the Sabbath by healing the man, but the word for breaking was stronger, as in completely cancelling or destroying. This word is {…}

Abrogated, which Jesus did of many things