General
This is the author of the Gospel of John.
Who is John the Apostle/Disciple?
This is the OT text to which John is referring at the beginning of his Gospel.
What is Genesis 1?
This is John the Baptist's response to the priests and Levites when asked if he was the Christ.
What is being the voice of one crying in the wilderness?
The wedding at Cana happened on this day, previewing Jesus' victory.
What is the third day?
This is the nation that invented coinage, leading to the Jews requiring money changers for temple currency.
What is the Roman Empire?
This is the genre of John.
What is Gospel?
John goes to great lengths in his opening to get his audience to understand that Jesus is this.
Who is God?
Clearly, John received Jesus for who he is because he witnessed to Jesus being this.
Who is the Lamb of God and Son of God?
Jesus called his mother "Woman" for this reason.
What is her lack of authority over him to determine his work, life mission, and timing?
The people were buying and selling oxen and sheep in the temple for this reason.
What are the sacrifices and offerings by travelers to give to God, especially during the Passover Feast?
This is the range of years in which the Gospel of John was written.
What is A.D. 80s-90s?
This act ascribed to Jesus (the Word) indicates his power and authority over all creation.
What is creating all things that were created?
Jesus' response to Nathanael that he "saw" him made Nathanael believe because of this reason.
What is God's unique ability to see people, regardless of physical distance, and to see them as they truly are (or will be), such as God's seeing Hagar?
This is the purpose of all things, the reason anything exists.
What is to reveal God?
Jesus said he would rebuild the temple, referring to this.
What is his own body in his coming resurrection?
This is the significant historical events, with its date, that helped to shape John's message.
What is the fall of the temple (in Jerusalem) in A.D. 70?
This is the conflict and the whole plot of John laid out in just a few verses.
What is Jesus' coming to his own people and either being received or rejected?
This town was looked down upon by Israelites but ended up being Jesus' hometown.
What is Nazareth?
The disciples did this, modeling the proper response to Jesus.
What is believing/receiving/accepting Jesus?
Jesus's cleansing of the temple revealed these two things about his identity, both of which the Jews rejected.
What are his identity as the true and ultimate Prophet and as the true God and rightful owner and judge of the temple?
These are the three things to remember about the genre of Gospel.
What are kingdom, promise, and biography?
Later theologians coined the term "Trinity" to describe this phenomenon presented in John.
What is the multiple-unity within the Godhead, in which God is Father, Son, and Spirit, so that God creates all things by his Word (Jesus the Son)?
What is his being the connection point between heaven and earth?
These are what the wine Jesus made represents.
What are God's wrath, Jesus' hour, and the coming New Creation purchased by Jesus' blood?
This is the Old Testament Scripture Jesus fulfilled when he tossed the temple tables.
What is Jeremiah 7?