John 5:18 ) Why did the
Jewish leaders seek “the more” to kill Jesus?
John 5:32-39, 45–47) What
witnesses did Jesus say testified of Him?
re: John 5: 34,
“No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but
by the Holy Ghost” (1 Cor. 12:4) “for the
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Rev. 19:10).
John 5:39 “… for in them
ye dokeo
[think, seem to] have eternal life...” [See also John 17:3 “And this is life eternal,
that they might genosko* thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou
hast sent.” (*Know of; be acquainted with. To the Greeks, this
meant to know facts, whether or not they affected one's conduct. To the Jews,
true knowledge always manifested itself in one's behavior.]
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What is the difference between searching the
scriptures and reading them?
The lesson manual gives as an example
Joseph Smith’s “searching” of John 5:29, “the verse Joseph Smith and
Sidney Rigdon were studying and pondering in the course of their work on the
Inspired Version of the Bible when the eyes of their understanding were opened
and they received the vision of the degrees of glory” (Elder Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah 2:80n5).
“[All] must drink at the
biblical fountain before they quench their thirst for righteousness at the
great fountains from which the words of eternal life flow in our day” (Elder Bruce R. McConkie, A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, 398).
What is the relationship between scripture study and revelation?
What would the Jewish leaders have known if they had searched the scriptures?
How can the scriptures strengthened our faith in
Christ?
“And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and
was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick”(14:14 ). “And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and
was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a
shepherd: and he began to teach them many things”(Mark 6:34 ). Why
did Jesus feed the multitude?
What else did he do for them?
John 6:8–11)
How can we follow the example of the boy
who gave his loaves and fishes to Jesus?
John 6:12 ) What did
Jesus have his disciples do after feeding the multitude? Why?
John 6:26-31)
Jesus “chided those who had heard of Him feeding the 5,000 with only five
barley loaves and two fishes, and now flocked to Him expecting a free lunch.
That food, important as it was, was incidental to the real nourish- ment He was
trying to give them.” (Elder Jeffrey R.
Holland October 1997 CR in New Testament Gospel Doctrine
Teacher’s Manual, [NTGDTM], 51.) Why did some who heard how Jesus had fed the multitude
seek Him out the next day?
What type of death (and life) is Jesus talking about
in John 6:47–51?
John 6:47; Alma 5:33–35) How does one partake of the “bread of life”?
President Howard W. Hunter
counseled: “We must know Christ better than we know him; we must remember him
more often than we remember him; we must serve him more valiantly than we serve
him. Then we will drink water springing up unto eternal life and will eat the
bread of life.” (April 1994 CR; in NTGDTM, 51.)
“The figure used by Jesus …
of eating His flesh and drinking His blood as typical of unqualified and
absolute acceptance of Himself as the Savior … is of superlative import.... Acceptance
of Jesus as the Christ implies obedience to the laws and ordinances of His
gospel.... By these means only may the Spirit of God become an abiding part of
one’s individual being, even as the substance of the food we eat is assimilated”
into our physical bodies. (Elder James E.
Talmage, Jesus the Christ, 342–43; in New Testament Student
Manual, 222.)
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re John 6:60-66, Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote, “Probably
no people in all history understood better or had made more extensive use of
symbolic and figurative language …. For
them to pretend not to know that eating the flesh of Jesus meant accepting him
as the Son of God and obeying his words could only mean that they were
willfully closing their eyes to the truth.” (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary
1:359; quoted in New Testament Institute
Manual, 91.)
Elder Neal A. Maxwell
explained, “Once His doctrines really
began to make demands of people, it was too much for many.... There are
equivalent ‘hard sayings’ about our secular society… [F]ailure to
comprehend seems to be rooted in a resolute refusal to let go of the world ...”
(Quoted in NTSM, 222.)
John 6:67) When some of His disciples left Jesus after
His Bread of Life sermon, what did He ask His Apostles?
John 6:68) What was Peter’s response?
Elder Joseph Fielding Smith
taught: “[T]he words of eternal life … are given by revelation and inspiration …. A prophet is one who teaches by the voice of
inspiration the words of eternal life.” (April
1916 CR; Doctrines of Salvation 1:185.)
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
wrote: “Living water is the words of eternal life…. Where there are prophets of
God, there will be found rivers of living water … bubbling forth their
life-giving draughts that save from spiritual death…. Why must we be born of the Spirit? … ‘That [w]e
might ... enjoy the words of eternal life in this world, and eternal life in
the world to come’(Moses 6:59 ).
... Thus we are commanded ‘to give diligent heed
to the words of eternal life’ and to ‘live by every word that proceedeth forth
from the mouth of God’(D&C 84:43-44).”
(The
Mortal Messiah 1:497; New Witness for
the Articles of Faith, 288, 390.)
What are “the words of eternal life”?
John 6:69) What did Peter know about Jesus that those
who left did not?
How did Peter know that?
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