Lazarus Simple Bible Reading Comprehension Questions John 1 1. What was in the beginning? (v. 1)
2. What is the Word? (v. 1) 3. Who was in the beginning with God? (v. 2) 4. How were things in the world made? (v. 3) 5. What was in him? (v. 4) 6. What is life? (v. 4) 7. Where does light come shine? (v. 5) 8. What has not overcome the light? (v. 5) 9. Who was the witness from God? (v. 6-7) 10. What was he a witness of? (v. 8) 11. What was given to the whole world? (v. 9) 12. What was in the world but not received by His own people? (v. 10-11) 13. What happened to those who received him and who believed in His, Jesus, name? (v. 12-13) 14. What did the Word become? (v. 14) 15. What was the Son full of? (v. 14) 16. Who did John cry out about? (v. 15-16) 17. When did Jesus come and what did he bring? (v. 15-17) 18. Who has seen God? (v. 18) 19. Was John the Christ, Elijah, or a Prophet? Who was he? (v. 19-23) 20. What question did those sent by the Pharisee ask? (v. 24-25) 21. How did John answer the question? (v. 26-27) 22. Where did this take place? (v. 28) 23. How did John greet Jesus? (v. 29) 24. Is this the one John spoke of? (v. 30-31)
25. How did John know that this was the Son of God? (v. 32-34) 26. Who was Jesus first disciple? (v. 35-42) 27. Who was Jesus second disciples? (v. 43-46) 28. What did Jesus say that convinced Nathaniel He was the Son of God? (v. 47-51)
Lazarus Simple Bible Reading Comprehension Questions John 2 1. What day was the wedding and who was there with Jesus? (v. 1-2) 2. What happened while they were at the wedding and what did Jesus do? (v. 3-8) 3. How did the master of the feast react? (v. 9-10)
4. What was the significance of this for the disciples? (v. 11) 5. Where did Jesus come from when he arrived at Jerusalem and who was with Him? (v. 12-13) 6. What did Jesus make and why? (v. 14-17) 7. Describe the miscommunication that happened with the Jews in verses 18-22? 8. How was this dialogue used the future with His disciples? (v. 22) 9. Why did people believe in Jesus? (v. 23) 10. What did Jesus hold back from and why? (v. 24-25) 11. What do you think he meant?
Lazarus Simple Bible Reading Comprehension Questions John Chapter 3 1. Who did Nicodemus believe Jesus to be? (v. 1-2)
2. How did Jesus respond to Nicodemus? (v. 3) 3. Did Nicodemus understand what Jesus meant? (v. 4) 4. What did Jesus mean by being born again? (v. 5-6) 5. How does Jesus describe those who are born of the Spirit? (v. 7-8) 6. What must be true of a person who will enter the kingdom of God? (v. 3-5) 7. Does Nicodemus believe Jesus is the Son of Man who came down from Heaven? (v. 9-12) 8. Can a person who doubts earthly things believe in Heavenly things? (v. 12) 9. Who is the only one who ascended to Heaven and descended? (v. 13) 10. What must happen to Jesus? (v. 14-15) 11. What did God do because he loved the world? (v. 16) 12. What happened to those who believe in His Son? (v. 16) 13. What did God send His Son into the world to do? (v. 17) 14. What does the word condemn mean? (v. 17) 15. What does the word save mean? (v. 17) 16. Why will some people be condemned? (v. 18) 17. What has come into the world and why have people rejected it? (v. 19-21) 18. Who comes into the light? (v. 22) 19. Did John and Jesus both baptize others at the same time in different places? (v. 22-26) 20. What were John s followers concerned about? (v. 26) 21. What do we receive things from? (v. 27) 22. How does John answer his followers concern? (v. 28) 23. What is a bride?
24. What is a bridegroom? 25. What do you feel John meant when he said the one who has the bride is the bridegroom? (v. 29) 26. In this instance who is the bride? Who is the groom? 27. Who is above all? (v. 31) 28. What happens despite all they have seen and heard? (v. 32) 29. What happens to those who receive His testimony? (v. 33) 30. What limit does God put on the Spirit he gives to those who believe? (v. 34) 31. What has God given to the Son and why? (v. 35) 32. What do those who believe receive and what do those who do not obey receive? (v. 36)
Lazarus Simple Bible Reading Comprehension Questions John Chapter 4 1. Why did Jesus depart from Judea for Galilee? (v. 1-3) 2. Did Jesus baptize people Himself? (v. 2) 3. What was in the Samaritan town Sychsar? (v. 4-6) 4. What did Jesus ask the Samaritan women? (v. 7-8) 5. What did the women say in response? (v. 9)
6. What did Jesus say she would have asked for if she would have known who He was? (v. 10) 7. Why does she question Jesus? (v. 11-12) 8. What are the differences between the water at the well and the water that Jesus speaks of? (v. 13-14) 9. Did the women want the water? (v. 15) 10. What question does Jesus ask and what does that question reveal about the women? (v. 16-18) 11. What does the women believe Jesus to be? (v. 19) 12. What did she say her fathers did on the mountain? (v. 20) 13. What time does Jesus say has arrived for true worshipers? (v. 21-23) 14. What is God? (v. 24) 15. What does the women reveal she knows? (v. 25) 16. What does Jesus say to her in verse 26? 17. What did the women do when the disciples returned? (v. 27-30) 18. What is the food Jesus speaks of? (v. 31-36) 19. What does Jesus say the disciples have entered into? (v. 37-38) 20. Who did the Samaritans believe Jesus to be and why? (v. 39-42) 21. What is special about Jesus and Galilee as it relates to Jesus work? (v. 43-45) 22. What is it that Jesus questions about the official who s son was sick? (v 46-49) 23. What happened to the son and why? (v. 50-54)
Lazarus Simple Bible Reading Comprehension Questions John 5 1. After Jesus performed his second sign where did he go? (v. 1) 2. What happened at the pool called Bethesda near the Sheep Gate? (v. 2-9) 3. Did Jesus ask anything in return for the miracle he performed? (v. 10-14) 4. Why did the Jews begin persecuting Jesus? (v. 15-16)
5. What answer did Jesus give the Jews about his work? (v. 17) 6. What three reasons did the Jews seek to kill Jesus for? (v. 18) 7. Who shows Jesus what to do? (v. 19-20) 8. What Greater works will He show him? (v. 21-24) 9. What will happen in the time that has come? (v. 25-29) 10. What can Jesus do on His own? (v. 30) 11. If Jesus cannot do anything without the father what is true of us? 12. What must be present for a persons testimony to be true? (v. 31-32) 13. What bears witness to who Jesus is? (v. 33-36) 14. What three accusations does Jesus make about His Jewish audience? (v. 37-38) 15. What do the scriptures bare witness of and what do they reject? (v. 39) 16. What must people do to have life? (v. 40) 17. How does Jesus know they do not have the love of God within them? (v. 41-43) 18. Who do the people seek glory from? (v. 44) 19. Who is their accuser and why? (v. 45-47)