Bible Trivia Quiz | Beginnings in John’s Gospel | LDigging Deeper

Question 1. When priests and Levites asked John the Baptist who he was, how did he describe himself?

Answer: “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord” (John 1:23).

Context & Exhortation: John the Baptist drew such crowds that the leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to question him. They asked whether he was the Christ, Elias (Elijah) or “that prophet”, and he said no to each one (John 1:19–21).

Instead of giving his own name or title, John pointed to a prophecy. 

Isaiah had written, “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD” (Isaiah 40:3). John saw himself as only a voice, sent to get people ready for someone greater.

He made the same point a few verses later when he said of Jesus, “he it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose” (John 1:27). 

A latchet was the strap of a sandal, and untying it was a servant’s job.

John was content to be the voice as long as people looked at Jesus. 

What’s the word for us here then? Let us ask whether our words and our lives point people to Jesus rather than to ourselves.

Question 2. When John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him, what title did he give Him?

Answer: “The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).

Context & Exhortation: The day after John answered the leaders from Jerusalem, he saw Jesus walking toward him. He announced to the people, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).

Every Jew listening knew what a lamb meant. 

At the first Passover, each household killed a lamb and put its blood on the doorposts, and God said, “when I see the blood, I will pass over you” (Exodus 12:13). 

Lambs were also offered daily at the temple for sin.

John was saying that Jesus Himself would be the sacrifice those lambs pointed to. 

Peter later wrote that we were redeemed “with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Peter 1:19).

Family, the Lamb did not come to cover the sin of one house or one nation, but the sin of the world. That includes yours and mine. So, the invitation is for us to bring to Him today whatever we have been carrying.

Question 3. Two of John the Baptist’s disciples followed Jesus and stayed with Him that day. About what hour was it?

Answer: About the tenth hour (John 1:39).

Context & Exhortation: When John called Jesus the Lamb of God a second time, two of his disciples heard him and followed Jesus (John 1:35–37). 

Jesus turned and asked, “What seek ye?” They asked where He was staying, and He said, “Come and see” (John 1:38–39).

We have learnt, or I have learnt here, that the Jews counted the hours of the day from about six in the morning, so the tenth hour was about four in the afternoon. 

John remembered the exact time, which suggests this first meeting stayed with him for the rest of his life. 

One of the two was Andrew (John 1:40).

Jesus did not hand them a lesson plan. He invited them to spend time with Him. Later He told His disciples, “Abide in me, and I in you” (John 15:4), which means to stay close to Him and live in Him day by day.

Family, following Jesus begins with time spent in His company. So, let us accept His invitation to “come and see” (John 1:39) by setting aside unhurried time with Him this week.

Question 4. After spending the day with Jesus, whom did Andrew go and find first?

Answer: His own brother Simon. He told him, “We have found the Messias,” and brought him to Jesus (John 1:41–42).

Context & Exhortation: Andrew had just spent the afternoon with Jesus. The first thing he did afterward was look for his brother Simon. 

John explains that “Messias” means “the Christ”, the anointed one God had promised (John 1:41).

Andrew did not preach a sermon. He told Simon what he had found and brought him to Jesus. That same Simon became Peter, who preached on the day of Pentecost when about three thousand people were added to the church (Acts 2:41).

Andrew brought people to Jesus more than once. He was the one who brought the boy with five loaves and two fishes (John 6:8–9), and he went with Philip to tell Jesus that some Greeks wanted to see Him (John 12:22).

Most of us will reach people the way Andrew did, one at a time, starting close to home. So, let us think of one family member or friend we can tell about Jesus and bring to Him. And if we can’t literally interact with them, we continue to pray.

Question 5. When Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again, what did Nicodemus ask?

Answer: “How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?” (John 3:4).

Context & Exhortation: Nicodemus was a Pharisee and “a ruler of the Jews”, a member of the council that governed Jewish religious life (John 3:1). He came to Jesus by night, perhaps to avoid being seen. Jesus told him, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).

Nicodemus took the words literally and asked how a grown man could be born a second time. Jesus explained that He meant a spiritual birth: “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).

In the same conversation Jesus spoke the words many know by heart: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). The new birth comes through believing in Him.

Nicodemus was religious and well taught, yet he still needed a new beginning from God. 

So, let us not rely on our knowledge or our church background, but make sure we have truly been born again.

Question 6. Why was the woman of Samaria surprised when Jesus asked her for a drink?

Answer: Because He was a Jew and she was a Samaritan, “for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans” (John 4:9).

Context & Exhortation: Jesus was tired from His journey and sat by the well near the city of Sychar about the sixth hour, around noon (John 4:6). When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, He said to her, “Give me to drink” (John 4:7).

Jews and Samaritans had been divided for centuries over worship and history, and most Jews avoided Samaritans altogether. So, a Jewish man speaking to a Samaritan woman in public, and asking to drink from her vessel, crossed both racial and social lines.

Jesus used the request to offer her something greater: “whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst” (John 4:14). She left her waterpot, went into the city and told the people, “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did” (John 4:28–29).

Jesus went to someone others would have passed by, and a whole town heard about Him because of it. 

We can do likewise: let us look for the person we might normally avoid and treat them as someone Jesus wants to reach.

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