John 4 Bible Study Questions
Questions for John chapter 4 Bible study
Questions for John 4 Bible Study
John 4:1-6 Bible Study Questions
Why did Jesus leave “Judea” (John 4:3)?
Why would the “Pharisees” (John 4:1) be after Jesus?
Was Jesus scared of the Pharisees?.
Where are “Samaria” and “Sychar” (John 4:5)?
Who are “Jacob” and “Joseph” (John 4:5)?
What “plot of ground” (John 4:5) had Jacob given to Joseph?
How old was “Jacob's well” (John 4:6)?
Why was Jesus “tired” (John 4:6)?
Why was Jesus sitting by the well, and where were His disciples?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john4-bible-study.htm
John 4:7-19 Bible Study Questions
Does the Samaritan woman refuse Jesus’ request for a drink of water?
Why do you think Jesus asked the Samaritan woman for water?
Why did “Jews have no dealings with Samaritans” (John 4:9)?
What “living water” (John 4:10) is Jesus talking about?
How would you characterize their conversation up to John 4:15?
Why the abrupt change in topic in John 4:16?
What was the sin?
Being with a man who isn’t her husband is self-explanatory but what’s wrong with her having had five husbands?
What do you think of the Samaritan woman’s reply in John 4:19? What would most women have said in reply?
When someone alerts you about your sins, do you repent or retaliate?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john4-samaritan-woman.htm
John 4:20-22 Bible Study Questions
Had Jesus said anything about the place of worship up until John 4:19?
Where is the woman saying the place of worship is according to Jews?
Where is she saying the place of worship is for Samaritans?
After calling Jesus a prophet, why does she all of a sudden bring up the controversy over the correct place to worship God?
What “hour” is Jesus referring to in John 4:21?
In which place had God ordained the Jews to worship Him until then?
To whom does the “you” in John 4:21 refer?
Where will they worship Him?
Doesn’t the Bible also say that Christians should go to church?
What does this mean for the billions of dollars spent to build attractive church buildings?
How much money has your church spent to buy/build, maintain and pay the mortgage on your church building vs. on missions (examples) and caring for the sick and poor Christians and even non-Christians?
To whom do the “you” and “we” in John 4:22 refer?
What does Jesus mean by salvation being “from the Jews” (John 4:22)?
Is sincerity sufficient for proper worship?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john4-place-of-worship.htm
John 4:23-24 Bible Study Questions
What does John 4:23 say God the Father is seeking?
Why does Jesus repeat that we “must worship in Spirit and truth” (John 4:24)?
What does it mean to worship God in Spirit and truth?
How do we test to see if a spiritual influence is of God or of the devil?
What is the truth?
What do we do when the Holy Spirit and the Bible contradict each other?
What must we do to know if a spiritual influence is or isn't of God?
What is “worship” (John 4:23,24)?
What do we call someone whose life appears led by the Holy Spirit and the truth of the Bible only during church services?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john4-worship-in-spirit-and-truth.htm
John 4:25-26 Bible Study Questions
What is “Messiah” (John 4:25)?
Who is the Anointed Messiah?
Who was the Jewish Messiah?
Who was the Samaritan Messiah?
Is the woman saying that Jesus is the Samaritan Messiah?
Does Jesus let Himself be brushed aside?
How could she have responded?
Is that what she did?
How do we know that?
Was Jesus telling her that He was just a prophet?
Did this happen only to this woman?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john4-messiah.htm
John 4:27-30 Bible Study Questions
Why did the disciples marvel that Jesus “was talking with a woman” (John 4:27)?
What do you think was her demeanor when she said, “Come, see a Man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” (John 4:29)
How do we know?
What three identities did the woman sequentially ascribe to Jesus as recorded in this chapter?
And what is the first thing she did thereafter?
How much experience did she have in telling people about Jesus?
So what did she do?
Does God require Christians to do more than what she did?
Who are still waiting for their Messiah?
What should they be told?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john4-come-see-a-man.htm
John 4:31-35 Bible Study Questions
What was Jesus’ food unknown to His disciples?
What work of God the Father had Jesus been doing?
Why does Jesus call doing God’s work His “food” (John 4:34)?
Is that your attitude toward doing God’s work, including evangelism?
What does Jesus mean by, “Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then the harvest comes’” (john 4:35)?
What did His disciples see when they obeyed His command to “lift up your eyes and see the fields” (John 4:35)?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john4-doing-gods-work.htm
John 4:36-42 Bible Study Questions
What does John 4:36-37 imply?
Do Jesus’ words to the disciples sound congratulatory or admonishing?
Why?
Why did the “many” (John 4:39) Samaritans believe in Jesus?
Why might they have been intrigued by what she had to say?
Why or when did “many more” believe in Jesus as “the Christ, the Savior of the World” (John 4:42)?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john4-sow-and-reap.htm
John 4:43-45 Bible Study Questions
When did Jesus testify that a prophet has no honor in his hometown?
Is it still true that a prophet has no honor in his hometown?
How can we distinguish a true prophet from the false prophets?
Why did the Galileans receive Jesus this time?
Are they now true followers of Jesus?
What is the difference between a follower and a consumer of Jesus?
Which are you?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john4-a-prophet-has-no-honor-in-his-own-country.htm
John 4:46-54 Bible Study Questions
Where are Capernaum and Cana?
Why is Jesus asked to "come down" (John 4:47 below) from Cana to Capernaum?
Whose son was sick at Capernaum?
What is his priority?
What is Jesus' priority?
Which is the higher priority?
Do doctors save lives?
What saves lives?
When did the fever leave the official's son?
What did the official do until he could confirm what Jesus had said?
What should we do with Jesus' instructions to us in the Bible?