Bible Trivia Quiz | The Last Night With His Disciples | Digging Deeper

Question 1. At the last supper, how did Jesus show which disciple would betray Him?

Answer: He said it was the one to whom He would give a sop after dipping it, and He gave the sop to Judas Iscariot (John 13:26).

Context & Exhortation: During the supper Jesus was troubled and said, “one of you shall betray me” (John 13:21). The disciples looked at one another, unsure whom He meant. Peter signalled to the disciple leaning on Jesus’ chest to ask who it was (John 13:23–24).

Jesus answered, “He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it” (John 13:26). A sop was a piece of bread dipped in the dish. Offering it to someone was often a gesture of friendship, so Jesus was still reaching out to Judas even then.

After Judas took the sop, he went out immediately, “and it was night” (John 13:30). Jesus had already said this fulfilled the scripture, “He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me” (John 13:18, quoting Psalm 41:9).

Jesus showed kindness to Judas right up to the end, while Judas walked away into the dark. 

Family, let us not harden our hearts when Jesus reaches out to us, but turn to Him while it is still day.

Question 2. Just before Jesus gave His disciples a new commandment, He told them something they could not do. What was it?

Answer: Come where He was going. He said, “Whither I go, ye cannot come” (John 13:33).

Context & Exhortation: Judas had just gone out into the night (John 13:30). 

Jesus then spoke tenderly to the eleven, calling them “Little children”, and told them, “yet a little while I am with you … Whither I go, ye cannot come” (John 13:33). “Whither” means where.

Jesus was about to go to the cross and then return to His Father, and they could not go with Him. So in the very next sentence He told them how to live while He was away: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you” (John 13:34).

Peter did not want to be left behind and asked, “Lord, whither goest thou?” Jesus answered, “Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards” (John 13:36). 

Until then, their love for one another would show the world that they were His disciples (John 13:35). Although Jesus is not physically with us now either, His instruction has not changed. 

We are encouraged to continue to love one another the way Jesus loved us, because that love is how people see Him in us while we wait.

Question 3. Which disciple asked Jesus, “Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?”

Answer: Judas, not Iscariot (John 14:22).

Context & Exhortation: Jesus had just promised that whoever keeps His commandments loves Him, and of that person He said, “I will love him, and will manifest myself to him” (John 14:21). To manifest means to show or make known.

A disciple named Judas asked how Jesus could show Himself to them and not to the world. John is careful to add “not Iscariot” (John 14:22), because Judas Iscariot had already left the room. Luke names this disciple “Judas the brother of James” (Luke 6:16).

Jesus answered, “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him” (John 14:23). This means Jesus would make Himself known to those who love Him and obey His words.

Judas asked a sincere question, and Jesus answered it with a promise. 

Let us bring our honest questions to Jesus, and show our love by keeping His words, so that He can make His home with us.

Question 4. Jesus said His Father is the husbandman. What does the husbandman do to every branch that bears fruit?

Answer: He purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit (John 15:2).

Context & Exhortation: A husbandman was a farmer, in this case the one who looks after a vineyard. 

Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman” (John 15:1), and His disciples are the branches (John 15:5).

The husbandman takes away every branch that bears no fruit, and every branch that bears fruit, “he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit” (John 15:2). To purge means to prune, cutting a branch back so it grows stronger. So the branches that are already fruitful are the ones that get cut back.

God often prunes us through hard seasons. Hebrews says that correction does not feel joyful at the time, “nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby” (Hebrews 12:11). 

The pain has a purpose: more fruit. We have to realize that some of the cutting back we feel in life is the Father pruning us, not punishing us. 

Therefore, we stay close to Jesus through His Word and prayer, and trust the Father’s Hand when He prunes.

Question 5. Jesus said that when the Comforter came, He would reprove the world of three things. What are they?

Answer: Of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment (John 16:8).

Context & Exhortation: The disciples were full of sorrow because Jesus was leaving. He told them, “It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you” (John 16:7). 

“Expedient” means better for you. Jesus had already said the Comforter is the Holy Ghost (John 14:26).

To reprove means to convict, to show people they are in the wrong. Jesus said the Spirit would convict the world “of sin, because they believe not on me”, “of righteousness, because I go to my Father”, and “of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged” (John 16:9–11).

We see this on the day of Pentecost. When Peter preached, the people “were pricked in their heart” and asked, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” (Acts 2:37). 

Peter spoke the words, but Jesus had said this convicting work belongs to the Spirit.

We cannot change anyone’s heart; the Holy Spirit does that work. What we can do is to share the truth faithfully and keep praying for the people we love, trusting the Spirit to do what only He can do.

Question 6. When the band of soldiers came to arrest Jesus and He answered, “I am he,” what happened to them?

Answer: They went backward and fell to the ground (John 18:6).

Context & Exhortation: Judas led a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees to the garden across the brook Cedron, carrying lanterns, torches and weapons (John 18:1–3). Jesus went out to meet them and asked, “Whom seek ye?” (John 18:4).

When they said, “Jesus of Nazareth,” He answered, “I am he,” and they went backward and fell to the ground (John 18:5–6). 

For a moment, armed men were knocked down by His words, showing that no one was taking His life by force.

Jesus then asked them again, and this time He spoke up for His disciples: “if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way” (John 18:8). He had already said, “No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself” (John 10:18).

Jesus went to the cross willingly, and He protected His followers as He went. Thanks be to God that our salvation was His deliberate choice, made out of love for us.

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