John 20:19-31 | Bible Study Questions
Observation
What does it say?
- Read John 20:19-31
- Do you notice any repeated words or ideas?
- What characters are present?
- What are Jesus' commands to Thomas? (John 20:27)
INTERPRETATION
What does it mean?
- What new evidence to you see for the bodily resurrection of Jesus?
- What do you learn about the significance of Jesus' resurrection?
- What previous lessons from the book of John do you see confirmed here?
- We can often wish that we were Thomas and could see and feel the scars on Jesus' body. How do Jesus' words in John 20:29 counteract that feeling?
- Why is it better to follow Jesus today than it was to see him physically resurrected?
- What stands out to you about the author's comment in John 20:30-31?
- Why did John write the things he did?
- Have the things written in John caused you to believe? Or have they caused your present belief to be strengthened? How so?
APPLICATION
How should it change us?
- How should we react to this passage about Jesus' resurrection?
- How should we not react to this passage?
- Do you sometimes doubt like Thomas?
- What would persuade you to stop doubting and believe?
- Are you sure that if that happened, you would really believe?
- How does the promise of life affect your desire to choose to believe?
- If you do believe, how have you experienced the "life" that Jesus offers? (cross-reference John 1:4, John 10:10)
- Pray in light of this passage and about any applications you have made
- Sing Christ is Risen, He is Risen Indeed to God and to one another.
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John 20:19-31 | Bible Study Questions
Observation
What does it say?
- Read John 20:19-31
- Do you notice any repeated words or ideas?
- What characters are present?
- What are Jesus' commands to Thomas? (John 20:27)
INTERPRETATION
What does it mean?
- What new evidence to you see for the bodily resurrection of Jesus?
- What do you learn about the significance of Jesus' resurrection?
- What previous lessons from the book of John do you see confirmed here?
- We can often wish that we were Thomas and could see and feel the scars on Jesus' body. How do Jesus' words in John 20:29 counteract that feeling?
- Why is it better to follow Jesus today than it was to see him physically resurrected?
- What stands out to you about the author's comment in John 20:30-31?
- Why did John write the things he did?
- Have the things written in John caused you to believe? Or have they caused your present belief to be strengthened? How so?
APPLICATION
How should it change us?
- How should we react to this passage about Jesus' resurrection?
- How should we not react to this passage?
- Do you sometimes doubt like Thomas?
- What would persuade you to stop doubting and believe?
- Are you sure that if that happened, you would really believe?
- How does the promise of life affect your desire to choose to believe?
- If you do believe, how have you experienced the "life" that Jesus offers? (cross-reference John 1:4, John 10:10)
- Pray in light of this passage and about any applications you have made
- Sing Christ is Risen, He is Risen Indeed to God and to one another.