Brookfield Church of Christ
Mar 1, 2026 Sunday School - John
Study in the Book of John
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Matthew 12:6–8NKJV
John 5:10–15LEB
John 5:1–9 ESV After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.A place of human suffering and needA popular belief in healing through the waterQuestion #1 What does Jesus’ question in John 5:6 (“Do you want to be healed?”) reveal about personal responsibility in responding to God’s grace? How does this challenge the idea that people are healed or saved without willingness or response?Question #2 Why do you think Jesus chose to heal this man on the Sabbath (John 5:8–9), and what does this reveal about Jesus’ authority? How does this event expose misunderstandings about the purpose of God’s law?John 5:10–15 ESV So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.Question #3 How did the healed man initially respond to Jesus, and what does this teach us about gratitude, faith development, and accountability (John 5:11–15)?Question #4 In John 5:14, Jesus warns the man to “sin no more.” What does this statement teach about the relationship between sin, obedience, and spiritual consequences? How does this align with repentance as taught throughout Scripture (Acts 2:38)?John 5:16–18 ESV And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.Question #5 What claim is Jesus making in John 5:17–18 about His relationship with the Father, and why did this anger the Jewish leaders? Why is this passage critical for understanding the deity of Christ?John 5:19–23 ESV So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.Question #6 According to John 5:19–23, what does Jesus say about His unity with the Father in authority, action, and judgment? Why is honoring the Son essential to honoring the Father?John 5:24 ESV Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.Question #7 What does Jesus mean in John 5:24 when He says that those who hear and believe have “passed from death into life”? How does this verse harmonize belief with obedience rather than belief alone?John 5:25 ESV “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.Question #8 How does John 5:25 describe spiritual resurrection, and how is it different from the physical resurrection mentioned later in the passage?John 5:28–29 ESV Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.Question #9 In John 5:28–29, Jesus speaks of a universal resurrection. What are the two outcomes He describes, and what determines each one?Question #10 What warnings and encouragements does John 5:1–29 give us about listening to Jesus today? How should this passage shape our view of Christ’s authority, judgment, and our daily obedience?John 5:16–18NKJV
John 5:19–23LEB
John 5:24LEB
John 8:24NKJV
John 5:25LEB
John 5:28–31NKJV
John 5:28–29LEB
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