Gospel of John Trivia
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99 free Gospel of John trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The fourth Gospel reads nothing like the other three. It opens in eternity rather than in a stable, gives Jesus long discourses in place of short sayings, and builds its first half around seven signs, from wine at a wedding to a friend called out of his tomb after four days. These 99 questions walk through John in order: the prologue and the Word, the first disciples, Nicodemus by night, the Samaritan at the well, the healings at Bethesda and at the pool, the I AM sayings, the supper of John 13 with its towel and basin, the farewell discourse, the arrest, the trial, the cross, the empty tomb and the breakfast on the shore. Expect to be asked what only John records and where John parts company with Matthew, Mark and Luke. It suits a Bible study, a church quiz night or a Sunday-school staff room: play on your phone with instant explanations, or print it and read it aloud.
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Q 01Which term from Greek philosophy does John's prologue apply to Christ, rendered 'the Word' in English Bibles?
Logos
Logos: in Goethe's Faust, the scholar struggling to translate this verse rejects 'Word' and finally writes 'In the beginning was the Deed'.
Q 02Which word completes John 1:14 in the NIV: 'The Word became ___ and made his dwelling among us'?
Flesh
Flesh: when this passage closed the old Latin Mass as the Last Gospel, the priest genuflected at the words 'Et Verbum caro factum est'.
Q 03Which title did John the Baptist give Jesus at the Jordan, adding 'who takes away the sin of the world'?
The Lamb of God
The Lamb of God was said the day after priests and Levites had questioned the Baptist, and its Latin form, Agnus Dei, became a fixed part of the Catholic Mass.
Q 04In which Galilean village did Jesus perform his first sign, at a wedding where the wine ran out?
Cana
Cana is where the master of the banquet, tasting the new wine without knowing where it came from, told the bridegroom he had saved the best till now.
Q 05Which verse, the shortest in the King James Bible, comes as Christ nears a dead friend's tomb in John 11?
Jesus wept
Jesus wept is John 11:35, and the onlookers read the tears two ways: 'See how he loved him!' and why had a healer of the blind not prevented the death.
Q 06What three things does Jesus call himself in John 14:6?
The way, truth and life
The way, truth and life was Jesus's answer to a disciple who had just said, 'Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?'
Q 07Which title does Jesus take in John 10, contrasting himself with a hired hand who runs from the wolf?
The good shepherd
The good shepherd calls his own sheep by name, and Jesus adds that he has 'other sheep that are not of this sheep pen' still to bring in.
Q 08Which apostle, absent when the risen Jesus first appeared to the disciples, said he must touch the nail marks to believe?
Thomas
Thomas, also called Didymus, cried 'My Lord and my God!' a week later, and Jesus replied that those who believe without seeing are blessed.
Q 09Jesus told the woman at Jacob's well she had had five husbands; which region was she from?
Samaria
Samaria: leaving her water jar, she told her town about him, and many Samaritans there believed because of her testimony.
Q 10What did Jesus do for his disciples at the supper in John 13 that Peter at first refused?
Washed their feet
Washed their feet: told 'Unless I wash you, you have no part with me', Peter asked Jesus to wash his hands and head as well.
Q 11Which friend of Jesus, dead four days and smelling in the tomb, did he call out alive in John 11?
Lazarus
Lazarus came out still bound in strips of linen with a cloth over his face, and the chief priests then plotted to kill him too, because so many believed on his account.
Q 12Which verse, famous from signs held up at sports events, comes from Jesus's night-time talk with the Pharisee Nicodemus?
John 3:16
John 3:16 signs became a TV fixture through Rollen Stewart, a rainbow-wigged fan who carried a portable TV to see where the cameras pointed.
Q 13Which disciple, first a follower of the Baptist, went to find his brother Simon saying 'We have found the Messiah'?
Andrew
Q 21What did Jesus tell an invalid of 38 years at a Jerusalem pool to do?
Take up his mat
Take up his mat: it was the Sabbath, so the Jewish leaders told the man the law forbade carrying it, and began to persecute Jesus.
Q 22In which pool did Jesus tell a man blind from birth to wash, after putting mud made with saliva on his eyes?
Siloam
Siloam, which John says means 'Sent'; some Pharisees then said the healer could not be from God because he did not keep the Sabbath.
Q 23What did Jesus call himself while teaching in the Capernaum synagogue in John 6?
The bread of life
The bread of life discourse cost Jesus followers — John says many of his disciples 'no longer followed him' — once his talk of eating and drinking him proved too hard a teaching.
Andrew was one of two Baptist followers who trailed Jesus at the Jordan and asked where he was staying; the reply was 'Come, and you will see'.
Q 14Which disciple asked whether anything good could come from Nazareth, then heard Jesus had seen him under a fig tree?
Nathanael
Nathanael went from scoffing at Nazareth to declaring, 'Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.'
Q 15What new name did Jesus give Simon son of John at their first meeting, a name the text itself then translates?
Cephas
Cephas, Aramaic for 'rock', turns up again in Corinth, where Paul hears that one faction of believers is saying 'I follow Cephas'.
Q 16Which Galilean town does John 1 name as the home of Philip, who then fetched a friend to meet Jesus?
Bethsaida
Bethsaida was also the home of Simon Peter and his brother, and John 12 repeats Philip's hometown when Greeks at the festival ask him, 'Sir, we would like to see Jesus'.
Q 17Who told the servants at the wedding in John 2, 'Do whatever he tells you'?
Jesus's mother
Jesus's mother: he had just told her 'My hour has not yet come', yet six water jars were soon filled and the water became wine.
Q 18What did Jesus make from cords before driving sheep, cattle and traders from the temple, a detail only John gives?
A whip
A whip: John has him scatter the money changers' coins and tell the dove sellers, 'Stop turning my Father's house into a market!'
Q 19Jesus said he would raise a destroyed temple in three days; what did John say that temple was?
His body
His body: the crowd scoffed that the temple had taken 46 years to build, and his disciples grasped the saying only after he rose from the dead.
Q 20What does Jesus call himself in John 15, adding that his Father prunes every fruitful branch and cuts off the barren?
The true vine
The true vine: 'apart from me you can do nothing', Jesus says, and branches that do not remain in him are thrown into the fire and burned.
Q 24Who, John alone says, supplied the barley loaves and two small fish with which Jesus fed the 5,000?
A boy
A boy: once fed, the crowd hailed Jesus as the Prophet and meant to make him king by force, so he withdrew to a mountain alone.
Q 25What must a person be to see the kingdom of God, Jesus told Nicodemus?
Born again
Born again, or 'born from above' as the Greek can also mean, baffled Nicodemus, who asked how someone could be born when they are old.
Q 26Which object from Moses's wilderness years did Jesus compare to the lifted-up Son of Man when talking to Nicodemus?
The bronze snake
The bronze snake kept bitten Israelites alive if they looked at it, yet King Hezekiah later smashed it because people were burning incense to it.
Q 27Which miracle did the disciples see on the lake the night after the feeding of the 5,000 in John 6?
Walking on water
Walking on water, in John's telling, ends with the boat 'immediately' reaching the shore, and unlike Matthew's version there is no Peter stepping out to join him.
Q 28Which episode, missing from John's oldest manuscripts, ends with 'Go now and leave your life of sin'?
The woman caught in adultery
The woman caught in adultery: Jesus wrote on the ground, and after 'let any one of you who is without sin' her accusers left, the older ones first.
Q 29Which Jewish festival, named nowhere else in the New Testament, finds Jesus in Solomon's Colonnade one winter?
Hanukkah
Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, marks the Maccabees' rededication of the temple, and there the crowd demands that Jesus say plainly whether he is the Messiah.
Q 30How did the crowd react when Jesus said 'Before Abraham was, I am' in John 8?
They picked up stones
They picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself and slipped away from the temple grounds.