General Information
The Gospel of John is in this Testament of the Bible.
What is the New (Testament)?
This is the first sign Jesus performed.
What is the turning of water into wine at the wedding of Cana?
This is what Jesus means by "I am the bread of life."
What is the ultimate fulfillment of the manna in the wilderness as the true nourishment for hungry man?
This is the response of the disciples to Jesus after He turned water into wine.
What is acceptance and belief after seeing His glory?
This is what Jesus is proclaiming through His first sign.
What are the ultimate and final wedding celebration at the end of time between Him and the Church that He secured through the spilling of His wine-like blood on the cross and the eternal provision He Himself will give to all who come to Him?
This is the author of John.
Who is John the Disciple/John the Apostle/the Beloved Disciple?
This is the second sign Jesus performed in John's Gospel.
What is the healing of the official's son in Capernaum?
What is the true understanding and teaching and purity and vision and goodness of the world?
This is one reason (of many) the Pharisees cite for rejecting Jesus.
What are the facts that Jesus is healing people on the Sabbath and making Himself equal to God and calling Himself the King of Israel?
This is what Jesus is proclaiming with His second sign.
What is His power over sickness, regardless of distance?
This is the genre of John.
What is a Gospel?
This is the third sign Jesus performed in John.
What is the healing of the invalid by Bethesda on the Sabbath?
This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I am the gate."
What is the fact the people can only enter God's sheepfold through Him?
This is the surprising group of people who accept Jesus instead of Jesus' own people, the Jews.
Who are the Greeks?
This is what Jesus was proclaiming with His third sign.
What are His power and willingness to heal injury and physical ailments, even when the healed's resolve to ask is low, and His authority over the Sabbath as the eternal Son of the Father?
These are the three words that John's genre should remind you of.
What are kingdom, promises, and biography?
These are the fourth and fifth signs Jesus performed in John.
What are the feeding of the 5,000 and the healing of the blind man?
This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I am the Good Shepherd."
What is the fact that Jesus is God in the flesh, who alone can (and does) care for, feed, and tend to the people of God?
This is the reason Caiaphas cites for deciding to kill Jesus.
What is the fact that "it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish" (11:49)?
What are the fact that He alone (and not food) satisfies and sustains and the fact that He has come to reveal truth to people who cannot see it?
This is the significant historical event that both happened before the writing of John and influences part of John's message and understanding of Jesus.
What is the fall of the temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70?
These are the sixth and seventh signs Jesus performed in John.
This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I am the resurrection and the life."
What are the facts that He, in His very Person, is the power to defeat death and to give life to all He will, regardless if they have died yet or not; and that He needs no one else to do this; and that the moment of coming back to life for all people is not just a moment but the very God of life?
These are the reasons given throughout John from Jesus and John himself explaining ultimately why people reject Jesus.
What are people's fleshly existence, their love of darkness and hatred of the light, their not being given by the Father to the Son, and their blindness?
This is what Jesus was proclaiming with His sixth and seventh signs.
What is the fact that Jesus came to reverse death through His own death and to give life to all who come to Him in His resurrection?