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John 6: 60-71 John 7: 1-13 John 7: 14-24 John 6: 60-71 60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?":61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you? 62 What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. 64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. 65 He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him.":66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. 67 "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. 68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." 70 Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" 71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.) 1. In verse 61-62 what question was Jesus really asking the followers? 2. What place was Jesus referring to in verse 62? 3. What does Jesus mean in the first part of verse 63? 4. What is Jesus saying in the second part of verse 63? 5. What is Jesus teaching in verse 65? 6. In verse 68, what is Peter saying about the source of eternal life? 7. In verse 70, How did Jesus know that one of them was going to betray Him? John 7: 1-13 1 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. 2 But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, 3 Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. 4 No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." 5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him. 6 Therefore Jesus told them, "The right time for me has not yet come; for you any time is right. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil. 8 You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not yet come." 9 Having said this, he stayed in Galilee. 10 However, after his brothers had left for the Feast, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. 11 Now at the Feast the Jews were watching for him and asking, "Where is that man?" 12 Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others replied, "No, he deceives the people." 13 But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the Jews. 1. In verse 1 what were the Jews trying to do to Jesus? 2. In verse 3 who was talking to Jesus? What is the relationship that these people have with Jesus? 3. According to verse 5, were the people talking to Jesus in verse 3 his followers? 4. In verse 6 Jesus said the right time has not yet come. The right time for what? 5. Why does the world hate Jesus? (verse 7) 6. In verse 12 what were some of the opinion about Jesus? What are different opinions today about Jesus? John 7: 14-24 John 7:14 Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. 15 The Jews were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such learning without having studied?" 16 Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. 17 If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?" 20 "You are demon-possessed," the crowd answered. "Who is trying to kill you?" 21 Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all astonished. 22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a child on the Sabbath. 23 Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing the whole man on the Sabbath? 24 Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment." 1. According to verse 15, did Jesus attend any kind of religious study? 2. In verse 16, where does Jesus say that He got His teachings? 3. According to verse 17, who can testify that Jesus’ teaching is from God? 4. In verse 18, who does Jesus seek to honor? 5. How is Jesus confronting the people in verse 19? 6. What was Jesus’ argument to the Jews in verse 21-23? .
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