Who was Jesus speaking to again?
What does Jesus say He is?
What will happen to those who follow Him?
What did the Pharisees have to say about Jesus’ witness?
Why does Jesus say His witness is true? What does He know about Himself that the Pharisees don’t know?
How do the Pharisees judge? Does Jesus judge?
Why would Jesus’ judgement be true?
Who sent Jesus?
According to the law, how many witnesses are required for a testimony to be true?
Who are the two witnesses that Jesus refers to?
What did the Pharisees ask Him? What was His answer?
Where was He speaking? Why didn’t anyone lay hands on Him?
Would the Pharisees be able to go where Jesus was going? What would happen to them?
What did they think He meant that He was going to do?
Where are the Pharisees from? Where is Jesus from?
What was Jesus’ answer to the question, “Who are you?”
Who did Jesus speak for? Did they understand that?
What will happen that will make people understand that Jesus says and does nothing of Himself, just what his Father taught Him?
Is Jesus alone? Why?
What was the result of the words that Jesus had spoken then?

Thought Questions

Do you believe Jesus’ witness is true? Why or why not? Do you believe Him when He said He spoke from the Father, God Himself?
Why didn’t the Pharisees believe? What caused the difference in perspective between the Pharisees and the disciples?
Go back and read John 5:22. How do you understand John 8:15 in light of this? Read the context of both passages. The Pharisees had just “judged” the woman caught in adultery. Are there different types of “judgment?” How does God’s judgment compare to human judgment? Are there any other answers to this question?
When we are tempted to judge another person, what should our thoughts be? Do we truly understand the background situation of the person we are judging? Does God? Is there a difference between being judgmental and helping a person find salvation? How can you do the latter without doing the former? How does the conduct of the Pharisees give us a clue? Were they interested in others’ salvation?
How do we get to know the Father? Why were the Pharisees so in the dark about knowing the Father? Why do they keep asking Jesus the same questions over and over? In verse 27 they still don’t get it.
How would you describe the unity of Jesus and His Father, based on the passages you have read in John? Are their any applications you can make to your life, or to your relationships with others? Your personal relationship with God?
In verse 30, it says many believed on Him because of these words. What did he say that helped them believe Him? What has He said that helped you believe Him?

My prayer is:
that God would help me choose to remove the barriers that keep me from understanding who Christ is and what His relationship to the Father is;
that I would never use human judgment to condemn a fellow human, but allow Christ and His Father to be the judges, while prayerfully guiding others to Him.