John 12 Bible Study Questions

John 12:1-2 Bible Study Questions

What is "Passover" (John 12:1)?

Who is "Lazarus ... who had been dead" (John 12:1)?

Where is "Bethany" (John 12:1)?

Where did Jesus come from?

Was Jesus afraid of the Jewish leaders?

Why did Jesus come to Bethany "six days before the Passover" (John 12:1)?

Since "Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus" (John 11:5), why didn't He come to Bethany a few days earlier and spend a little more time with them?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-bible-study.htm

John 12:3-7 Bible Study Questions

What is "spikenard" (John 12:3)?

How much volume was "a litra of a very costly oil of spikenard" (John 12:3)?

How costly was this litra of spikenard Mary used to anoint Jesus' feet?

According to Jesus, why did Mary use spikenard to anoint His feet?

If she’s preparing His body for burial, why anoint just His feet (see Mark 14)?

What discrepancies seem to exist between the accounts in Mark and John?

Does that mean there are errors in the Bible?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-spikenard-bethany.htm

John 12:8-11 Bible Study Questions

Is Jesus telling HIs disciples to not care about the "poor" (John 12:8)?

Did Mary know that she was anointing Jesus to prepare for His burial?

How did "a great many of the Jews" find out that Jesus "was" (John 12:9) in Bethany?

Why might the supper have been held at Simon's house instead of Lazarus'?

Who was their main attraction, besides Jesus?

Did it turn into a circus featuring him?

What did other Jews do?

How did the chief priests' plot to murder Jesus change?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-jesus-and-the-poor.htm

John 12:12-15 Bible Study Questions

Who was this "great multitude" (John 12:12) and why did it go out to meet Jesus?

What does Hosanna mean?

What did the "branches of palm trees" (John 12:13) that they "took" signify in those days?

What did they call Jesus?

So, as what are they welcoming Jesus?

On what do such men ride into town?

What's peculiar about the scene in John 12:14-15?

Why is He riding on that?

How many days before the Passover did this take place?

What did the people do five days before the first ever Passover?

From a spiritual perspective, what was the multitude doing?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-hosanna.htm

John 12:16-19 Bible Study Questions

Did the disciples know why Jesus rode in on a baby donkey?

When did they understand?

What is the precise meaning of "Jesus was glorified" (John 12:16)?

Did Jesus being glorified automatically make the disciples understand?

What should the apostles have remembered and what should Christian leaders remember today about how Jesus positioned Himself when He was welcomed by an adoring crowd?

Why did Jesus take that position?

Did "the people who were with Jesus when He called Lazarus out of his tomb" (John 12:17) witness about Jesus only once?

Until when?

Were the people bearing witness about Jesus born-again Christians?

If non-Christians continued to bear witness about what Jesus did for someone else, what should Christians do about what He did for them?

Do you?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-glorified-meaning.htm

John 12:20-26 Bible Study Questions

What has this gospel said so far about the timing of Jesus' death?

What does Jesus say in John 12:23?

What signaled that "the hour has come"?

What does Jesus mean by "glorified" (John 12:23)?

Who is "the Son of Man" (John 12:23)?

What is Jesus saying in John 12:24-25?

What will those who "love" such things "lose" (John 12:25)?

To gain everlasting life, how must we treat such things?

Why?

How does Jesus want us to "follow" (John 12:26) Him (see Matthew 16)?

What does it mean to "take up" the "cross"?

What are the worldly passions, positions and possessions in your life?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-the-hour-has-come.htm

John 12:27-30 Bible Study Questions

What did Jesus request God the Father to do in John 12:27?

How did God the Father respond from heaven about His name?

How had He already done that?

What is God entering the sinful world as a human being comparable to?

How will God the Father do it "again" (John 12:28)?

Was what He did a peripheral reason for Jesus coming to the world?

Was fulfilling that purpose fun for Jesus?

Why did He go through with it?

Did the crowd hear God the Father's response to Jesus?

For whom had God the Father spoken?

Why had He spoken?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-father-glorify-your-name.htm

John 12:31-36 Bible Study Questions

Who is "the ruler of this world” (John 12:31)?

What did Jesus call him earlier?

So, why does Jesus now call him "the ruler of this world"?

What "world" was Jesus referring to when He said, "Now is the judgment of this world" (John 12:31)?

So what was Jesus saying in John 12:31-32?

How will He draw them to Himself?

What do the people mean by, "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever" (John 12:34)?

What does John 12:34 indicate the people to have understood about Jesus' statement in John 12:32?

What two things didn't they know?

To what "light" is Jesus referring in John 12:35?

Does Jesus answer their question from John 12:34?

Why didn't Jesus give them a direct answer and why did He then depart, being "hidden from them" (John 12:36)?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-ruler-of-this-world.htm

John 12:37-43 Bible Study Questions

Whose eyes and hearts had God "blinded" and "hardened" (John 12:40) and why?

Who are the "rulers" and "Pharisees" (John 12:42)?

What had the Sanhedrin recently decided to do after Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead?

To what extent did the believing rulers love "the praise of men more than the praise of God" (John 12:43)?

How much easier is it for people who hold worldly power and position today to "confess" (John 12:42) Jesus?

What words did Jesus have for such people (see Luke 9)?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-prophet-isaiah.htm

John 12:44-50 Bible Study Questions

Who is "Him who sent Me" (John 12:44, 45)?

So, what did Jesus mean by, "He who believes in Me believes not in Me except in Him who sent me" (John 12:44)?

Does Jesus "judge" (John 12:47) those who don't believe in Him?

Do they end up judged?

Why does Jesus call Himself "light" (John 12:46) again?

Why now?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john12-he-who-believes-in-me.htm