John’s Gospel Lesson 29
JESUS SAID, "IT IS FINISHED."
John 19:1-42
Key Verse: 19:30
What had been Pilate’s conclusion about Jesus’ guilt? (18:38) What did Pilate do when his attempt to compromise failed? (19:1) How did the soldiers make fun of Jesus? (2-3) How did Pilate humiliate Jesus and the Jews? (4-5) What was the Jews’ reaction? (6)
What is the name of a charge of Jesus that they claim? (7) Why was Pilate even more afraid? (8, 9) What authority was that Pilate claimed to have and why didn’t Jesus need to appeal to Pilate? (10-11) What was Pilate’s final decision? (12-16) Think about the sins of the Jews and Pilate.
To where did Jesus go? (17) What happened after that? (18) Why did Jesus have to suffer like this? (Isa 53:5,6; 1Pe 2:24) Think of God’s righteousness and his love revealed at the crucifixion of his one and only Son.
What was Pilate’s testimony? (19-22) What does it mean that he is “JESUS OF NAZARETH”? “THE KING OF THE JEWS”? What does it mean that the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek?
What did the soldiers do? (23,24; Ps 22:18) Who were there under the cross of Jesus? (25) How did Jesus help his mother even in the midst of agony of the cross? (26-27) And what did he say in order to fulfill the Scripture? (28,29)
What was Jesus’ last word? (30) What did Jesus fulfill? (Heb 10:10,12,14,18) What is the grace that we received through Jesus? What does this mean to us that Jesus finished his mission?
What was the fact that Jesus certainly gave up his spirit being proved? (31-35) What Scriptures were fulfilled through this event? (36-37) What happened to Joseph of Arimathea and of Nicodemus through the death of Jesus? (38-42)