John 7 Bible Study Questions
Questions for John chapter 7 Bible study
Questions for John 7 Bible Study
John 7:1-9 Bible Study Questions
Where is "Judea" (John 7:1)?
Why did Jesus "not want to walk" (John 7:1) there?
Was Jesus afraid of them?
Who were "His brothers" (John 7:2)?
Did they believe in Jesus?
In John 7:6-8, did Jesus say that He wasn’t going to go to the feast?
Why does "the world" (John 7:7) hate Jesus?
How is that different today?
If a preacher doesn't preach against the sins of his flock, what will they do after they die?
What must a true servant of God point out?
Is it different for a non-preacher Christian among sinners?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john7-bible-study.htm
John 7:10-14 Bible Study Questions
To which "feast" (John 7:10) did they go?
What do Leviticus 23 and Exodus 23 say about this feast?
Why did Jesus go to this feast "in secret" (John 7:10)?
If Jesus came to die, why not get captured and killed?
What effect did His brothers going ahead have?
When He did arrive, did Jesus remain hidden?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john7-feast-of-tabernacles.htm
John 7:15-21 Bible Study Questions
What kind of studies were the Jews referring to in John 7:15?
What did those studies consist of?
What do the Jews mean by “Scriptures” (John 7:15)?
Are they saying that what Jesus was teaching about the Old Testament was in error?
From whom did the doctrine that Jesus is teaching originate?
To whom will that be apparent?
What “law” (John 7:19) did Moses deliver to the Jews?
What is ironic about the Jews raising questions about Jesus' doctrine and background?
Who is Jesus seeking to glorify?
What does a preacher who “seeks his own glory” (John 7:18) do today?
Why did the people think that Jesus had "a demon" (John 7:20)?
What "one work" (John 7:21) made them marvel?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john7-rabbinic-school.htm
John 7:22-23 Bible Study Questions
Why does Jesus bring up circumcision?
Why does John 7:22 include the phrase, "not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers" about circumcision (see Genesis 17)?
What molecules in the body enable blood to coagulate and clot over wounds?
Any guess as to when the levels of those molecules peak during a man's life?
When was this medical discovery made?
Had Jesus broken the law by healing a man on the Sabbath (see Matthew 12)?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john7-circumcision-bible.htm
John 7:24 Bible Study Questions
To whom did Jesus say, “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment” (John 7:24)?
For Christians, isn't it safer for us to simply not judge at all?
But didn't Jesus also tell us to not judge, lest we be judged (see Matthew 7)?
Aren't there some things about which we should not judge (see Romans 14)?
Then what about the things that the Bible does talk about?
Then why do so many preachers today say Christians should never judge?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john7-do-not-judge.htm
John 7:25-31 Bible Study Questions
Who vindicated Jesus' assertion of a murder plot?
How many errors are in their statement in John 7:27?
What are they (see Micah 5)?
Does Jesus tell them His hometown in John 7:28-29?
Why couldn’t the Jews "take Him" (John 7:30)?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john7-when-christ-comes.htm
John 7:32-36 Bible Study Questions
What tipped the “Pharisees and the chief priests” (John 7:32) into action?
What “officers” (John 7:32) did the Pharisees and chief priests send?
Who were the Pharisees?
How many Pharisees were there at this time?
Why were the Pharisees so opposed to Jesus?
How much longer is “a little while longer” (John 7:33)?
Where will Jesus go thereafter?
Where do the Jews speculate He may go?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john7-pharisees.htm
John 7:37-49 Bible Study Questions
Where did Jesus already talk about coming to Him to drink water?
Why would Jesus suddenly cry out about drinking and "rivers of living water" (John 7:38)?
What did Jesus mean by "out of his heart will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38)?
When will that take place?
What was the effect of Jesus' declaration in John 7:37-38?
To which "Scripture" (John 7:42) about Bethlehem are they referring?
What do they mean by, "Truly this is the Prophet" (John 7:40)?
Did the crowd keep "the officers" (John 7:45) from arresting Jesus?
How do the Pharisees sound in John 7:45-49?
What criterion for truth do they imply in John 7:48?
Is what you believe based on your own investigation of the Bible or what some "learned" person claimed about it?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john7-rivers-of-living-water.htm
John 7:50-53 Bible Study Questions
What is meant by Nicodemus "being one of them" (John 7:50)?
When did Nicodemus come "to Jesus by night" (John 7:50)?
How did that conversation with Jesus go?
What had Nicodemus been up to since that conversation with Jesus?
What does Nicodemus do in John 7:51?
Do they appreciate what Nicodemus has to say?
Was it true that "no prophet has arisen out of Galilee" (John 7:52)?
Based on John 7:50-52, what is the correct answer to the question in John 7:48: "Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?"