Healing at the Pool of Bethesda
READ John 5:2-16
Out of the great crowd of disabled people,
why did Christ ask only that one man if he wanted to be healed?
Why were the Jews so angry about Christ’s
Sabbath healings that they tried to kill Him?
The Son and the Father
READ John 5:19-20
What did Christ see the Father do?
READ John 5:24
What does it mean to have eternal life –
to pass from death unto life?
READ John 5:26
Who gave the Son to have “life in
himself”?
READ John 5:36-47
What are the greater witnesses of Christ
than John the Baptist?
Why do the Jews not believe these
“witnesses”?
Instead, what “witnesses” to the Church
leaders believe?
Feeding the Five Thousand
READ John 6:1-15
Why did Christ feed the five thousand?
How impressive was this miracle?
Why did the people want to make Christ a
king?
Why did Christ want to be on the mountain
alone, instead of with His friends?
Walking on Water in the Fourth Watch
READ Matthew 14:23-25 and Mark 6:48
What does it mean that the wind was
contrary?
When is the fourth watch?
How long had they struggled in the Sea?
Did Christ know they were struggling?
Why did He wait so long to come unto
them?
Why is Christ a “fourth watch” God?
As we labor until the fourth watch, what
lies does Satan tell us?
What promises do we have from Christ?
READ Matthew 14:26-33
So, when He finally comes to them, why do
they scream in fear?
Why does Peter ask to come to Jesus on
the water?
Why did Peter begin to sink?
The Bread of Life
READ Genesis 3:19
What happened to Adam and Eve’s diet when
they were expelled from the Garden of Eden?
What is bread symbolic of?
Any man can reduce bread into carbon, but
who can turn stones (dust) into bread (life)?
READ John 6:27, 31-35
What sustains mortal life?
What sustains eternal life?
READ John 6:36-47
Why did the Jews object so much to this
doctrine?
What is the Father’s testimony to any who
will hear Him?
What does it mean that no man has seen
the Father, save he which is of God?
READ John 6:48-58
What does it mean when Christ says He is
the Bread of Life?
Manna was “daily bread”; how often must
we partake of the “Bread of Life”?
Why is the sacrament bread broken before
it is eaten?
Why did Christ choose wine as a
sacramental emblem instead of water?
READ John 6:60-69
Why does Christ use offensive, animalistic,
“cannibalistic” language here – eating His flesh and drinking His blood - even
symbolically?
What does it mean that the “words” Christ
speaks unto us are “spirit” and are “life”?
Why is this doctrine of the atonement a
“hard saying”?
Why did Christ teach “hard, offensive”
sayings?
What other options do we have?
READ Ezekiel 36:26-28
How are we symbolic of the stones that
Christ turns into bread?
