Brookfield Church of Christ
Apr 26, 2026 Sunday School - John
Study in the Book of John
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- Much of John is dialogue between Jesus and:People in generalCrowds that followedDisciplesJewish LeadersHis Family
John 7:1–2 ESV After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand.Feast of Booths / Tabernacles / SheltersThe Feast of Tabernacles, known in Hebrew as Sukkot, is one of the most significant festivals in the Jewish calendar. While often associated with the Israelites’ forty years of wandering in the desert, today celebrated in October.John 7:3–10 ESV So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” For not even his brothers believed in him. Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.” After saying this, he remained in Galilee. But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.Question #1:Why did Jesus initially avoid going publicly to Judea, and what does this teach us about trusting God’s timing versus acting on human pressure?Question #2:Jesus’ own brothers did not believe in Him. What challenges do we face when sharing truth with those closest to us, and how should we respond?Matthew 13:55 ESV Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?James 1:1 ESV James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.Jude 1 ESV Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:John 7:11–13 ESV The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.” Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.Question #3:The crowd had mixed opinions about Jesus. How can we guard against forming spiritual conclusions based on popular opinion rather than God’s Word?John 7:14–24 ESV About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?” The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel at it. Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well? Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”Question #4:Jesus said His teaching came from God. How can we discern whether teaching today is truly from God? What role does obedience play in understanding truth?Question #5:What does Jesus mean by “judge righteous judgment”?Matthew 7:1–5 ESV “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.John 7:25–36 ESV Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ? But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.” So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know. I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.” So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?” The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”Question #6:Why were people confused about who Jesus was? What are some modern misunderstandings about Christ, and how can we address them with Scripture?John 7:37–39 ESV On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.Question #7:Jesus cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.” What does it mean to come to Jesus for living water?John 7:40–52 ESV When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” So there was a division among the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!” The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”Question #8:Why does the truth of Christ often divide people, and how should we stand firm in truth while showing love? John 7:1–2ESV
John 7:3–10ESV
Matthew 13:55ESV
James 1:1ESV
Jude 1ESV
John 7:11–13ESV
John 7:14–24ESV
Philippians 2:5–8NKJV
Matthew 7:1–5ESV
John 7:25–36ESV
John 7:37–39ESV
John 7:40–52ESV
John 8:1–11 ESV but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]Leviticus 20:10 ESV “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.Question #1According to the Law of Moses (Leviticus 20:10), what was the required penalty for this sin, and why was their trap for Jesus particularly cunning regarding Roman law?Question #2How does Jesus’ response in John 8:7 (“He who is without sin…”) challenge our attitudes toward judging others today? (See also Matthew 7:1–5.)Question #3What can we learn about mercy and accountability from Jesus’ interaction with the womanJohn 8:12–13 ESV Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”John 8:1–30NKJV
John 8:1–11NKJV
Leviticus 20:10NKJV
John 8:7ESV
Matthew 7:1–5ESV
John 8:12–13NKJV
John 8:12ESV
1 John 1:5–7ESV
John 8:13ESV
John 8:13–20ESV
John 8:21–30ESV
John 8:21–24ESV
John 8:23ESV
John 8:28–30ESV
John 8:31–38ESV
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