John 6 Bible Study Questions

John 6:1-7 Bible Study Questions

What are the two other names for the "Sea of Galilee" (John 6:1)?

Where did Jesus go?

What was the location of this place?

After what "things" (John 6:1) did Jesus take His disciples to the deserted place?

Why did "a great multitude" (John 6:2) follow Jesus?

What did Jesus do with them?

How much time had passed since the beginning of Jesus' ministry?

Was Jesus' question, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” (John 6:5) to Philip intended to start a private conversation?

What was the ensuing exchange between them and Jesus?

Whose idea did Philip shoot down?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-bible-study.htm

John 6:8-12 Bible Study Questions

Did the crowd number "about five thousand" (John 6:10)?

What other clues are there to the size of this crowd?

What was Andrew describing when he said, “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish" (John 6:9)?

How did Andrew find the five barley loaves and two small fish?

What does their answer imply?

Honestly, do you believe the account in John 6:11-12?

How can anyone feed 5000, 15000 or even more people with a kid’s meal, and then end up with more food after than before?

Do you believe a baby can run a marathon?

Do you believe an Olympic marathoner could?

What is the point?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-jesus-feeds-5000.htm

John 6:13 Bible Study Questions

How many baskets of the barley loaves' fragments were left over?

Is there significance to the left over bread filling these many baskets?

How many baskets of bread were left over after the feeding miracle in Mark 8:1-9?

What might the number of baskets of bread in John 6:13 represent?

How about the number of baskets of bread in Mark 8:1-9?

Where did the remnants of those nations end up?

In both miracles, what was left over?

As what did Jesus refer to Himself?

And is there any difference in the types of baskets in which the left over fragments were collected?

So, what could the baskets of bread represent?

Who is the unsung hero in the feeding miracle in John 6?

Was it given willingly, partially or entirely?

What lesson is there for us?

In what state did the giver leave?

What did Jesus need to have in order to perform this miracle?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-twelve-baskets.htm

John 6:14 Bible Study Questions

What did the crowd call Jesus after being fed?

Just any old prophet?

Why "the" Prophet?

Why would they consider Jesus to be that prophet?

What had been done for the Jews by the man to whom Jesus is being compared?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-the-prophet.htm

John 6:15-19 Bible Study Questions

What did the crowd want to do to Jesus in John 6:15?

So that He can do what for them?

Had the Creator of the universe come to earth for that?

Why had Jesus come?

Where did Jesus go?

Why?

Why might He have wanted to do that when they tried to make Him king?

How does what He did help against what He felt?

Where did the disciples go on the evening of the feeding miracle?

Did Jesus go with them?

Why would the disciples leave their rabbi behind?

How far is "twenty-five or thirty stadia" (John 6:19)?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-jesus-king.htm

John 6:20-21 Bible Study Questions

Who said, "I am. Fear not" (John 6:20)?

What does "I am. Fear not" (John 6:20) mean?

Is this the full account or the abbreviated account?

When is “the fourth watch of the night” (Matthew 14:25)?

What six miracles are in these accounts in John, Mark 6:47-51 and Matthew 14:23-33?

When did Peter began to sink?

What three lessons can we draw from this?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-fear-not.htm

John 6:22-25 Bible Study Questions

Where were the people "standing" (John 6:22)?

Why were the people standing there?

Why did the "other boats" come "from Tiberias" (John 6:23)?

What did the people do next?

What are they really asking Jesus?

Why would they be less likely to try to take Him by force there?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-jesus-boats.htm

John 6:26-30 Bible Study Questions

What is Jesus saying in John 6:26?

What is Jesus saying in the first half of John 6:27?

When did “God the Father ... set His seal on” Jesus?

What are they saying in John 6:28?

What is Jesus' answer?

To go to heaven, what should we do in addition to that?

What does 1 Corinthians 3:9-15 teach us about works?

Do they understand whom Jesus meant by, "Him whom He sent" when He said, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent” in John 6:29?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-work-of-god.htm

John 6:31-36 Bible Study Questions

Why do they bring up manna again in John 6:31?

What other thing do they want Jesus to do for them?

What does Jesus do in John 6:32?

Do they understand Jesus' declaration in John 5:32-33?

What kind of "life" is Jesus talking about in John 6:35?

What does Jesus mean by "comes to Me" in John 6:35?

What kind of "hunger and  ... thirst" is Jesus talking about in John 6:35?

How can Jesus say that those who comes to Him shall never hunger and thirst?

What kind of hunger and thirst do the people Jesus is addressing above, as well as many people in church buildings today, focus on?

What did Jesus say about the people who focus on that?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-bread-from-heaven.htm

John 6:37-40 Bible Study Questions

In John 6:38, is Jesus saying that He came down from heaven to do the will of God the Father but not His own will?

This passage mentions the will of God the Father twice. What ultimately is the will of the Father?

Can anyone given to Jesus by God the Father refuse to come to Jesus?

Can Jesus drop the ball and lose some of them?

What percent of those whom God the Father gives to Jesus will end up having "everlasting life" (John 6:40)?

When did God the Father choose the ones to give to Jesus, and based on whose will was that choice made?

Do we need to reach up and grab the salvation that He offers us?

What percent of the credit for your salvation goes to Jesus?

What percent goes to you?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-will-of-the-father.htm

John 6:41-43 Bible Study Questions

Was Jesus the son of Joseph?

Who is asking, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know" (John 6:42)?

How did "the Jews" know Joseph and his wife Mary?

Was Joseph still alive at this time?

Do the Jews understand Jesus' spiritual message about the will of the Father?

Does Jesus plead with them to see Him spiritually?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-son-of-joseph.htm

John 6:44 Bible Study Questions

Why can't they come to Jesus and be saved?

What can be drawn from John 6:44 and Ephesians 1:4-5?

How is that just to those who weren't chosen?

Since God chose before He created the universe and He will make sure that everyone He has chosen will be saved, why should we evangelize and potentially get in God's way?

How does the fact that He chooses affect how we proclaim the Gospel?

Can't we kind of tell who has and hasn't been chosen?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-no-one-can-come-to-me-unless-the-father.htm

John 6:45-47 Bible Study Questions

Which Old Testament passage is Jesus paraphrasing in John 6:45?

Who does Jesus say taught the people who come to believe in Him?

Is that true?

Why does Jesus say, "It is written in the prophets" (John 6:45) instead of saying it is written by the prophets, or it is said by the prophets?

Who is the only "One" (John 6:46) who has seen God the Father?

Is it true that nobody else has seen God the Father?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-they-shall-all-be-taught-by-god.htm

John 6:48-53 Bible Study Questions

When did we hear Jesus say, "I am the bread of life" (John 6:48)?

Is Jesus saying that the manna caused their ancestors to die in the wilderness (see Bread from Heaven)?

Is Jesus saying that those who eat the "bread of life" (John 6:48) "which comes down from heaven" will "not die" (John 6:50) physically?

By "If anyone eats of this bread, ... and the bread that I will give is My flesh" (John 6:51), is Jesus telling them to bite off and eat the flesh off His arms and legs?

What entities is He equating, starting with John 6:48?

What is said about this "bread of life" in John 6:51?

So how is the above equation elaborated?

What did John 1:14 say about His flesh?

So how does this extend the equation?

So what is Jesus telling people to feed on to have everlasting life?

Do you?

Do the Jews understand what Jesus is saying?

Does Jesus 'lighten up' His message to make it easier for them to understand?

Why does Jesus call Himself the "Son of Man" (John 6:53)?

What did Jesus mean by drinking His blood?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-i-am-the-bread-of-life.htm

John 6:54-58 Bible Study Questions

What did we already establish Jesus meant by "one who eats My flesh" (John 6:54)?

Where was Jesus' "blood" (John 6:54) shed?

So what does Jesus mean by His "blood" (John 6:53-56)?

What does Jesus mean by "The one who ... drinks My blood has everlasting life" (John 6:54)?

What did He also mean by "My flesh"?

Let's pull it together. What is Jesus saying we must do to have "everlasting life" (John 6:40, 47, 54)?

Do you?

What does Jesus mean by "the one who feeds on Me shall live by Me" (John 6:57)?

Do you?

How important is the rest of your life vs. living "forever" (John 6:58)?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-eats-my-flesh-and-drinks-my-blood.htm

John 6:59-65 Bible Study Questions

Is there any evidence today of this synagogue in Capernaum?

How large was the synagogue of Capernaum?

What does that tell us about the size of the crowd that chased after Jesus to Capernaum after the feeding miracle the day before?

Who else was in the audience at this synagogue?

Did Jesus' enemies say, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it" (John 6:60)?

Did Jesus hear them grumbling?

Does Jesus then water down His message so that it will be easier for them to accept?

Which "flesh" (John 6:63) is Jesus talking about?

Viewed from eternity, how much do peoples' flesh profit?

What are "spirit" and everlasting "life" (John 6:63)?

How much time and effort do you spend per day on your hair, make up, dressing up, working out, and feeding your body vs. feeding on Jesus' words?

Why didn't Jesus water down or soften His message or plead with them to believe?

Why does John 6:65 sound familiar?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-capernaum-synagogue.htm

John 6:66-71 Bible Study Questions

Were these "disciples" (John 6:66) true believers who lost their faith?

How is that different today?

What must people hear about Jesus the first time?

What is peculiar about Peter's answer to Jesus' question?

Why?

How is this different from the message of other religions?

Knowing that Judas is "was going to betray Him" (John 6:71), why did Jesus choose him as one of His twelve apostles?

Answers: bibleversestudy.com/johngospel/john6-true-believers.htm