Study notes for John 5

OPEN: When you get sick, what are you like? A puppy? Superman/woman? Rip Van Winkle?

READ 5:1-4:

1. How do you picture the setting of this story?
2. What is the smell?
1. The noises? The atmosphere?
2. How would you feel in a place like this?

READ 5:5-7

1. How would you picture the invalid?
2. :6 What does Jesus mean by this question?
1. Are you willing to pay the price?
2. Will you give up certain benefits from being sick?
3. What did the invalid hope that Jesus might do?

READ 5:8-15

1. As the invalid, how do you feel in :8-9?
2. in :10-12?
3. in :13?
4. in :14?
5. Why were the leaders so upset?
1. How do you suppose they responded to his medical update in :15?

REFLECT

1. In what ways do people today try to be healed emotionally & spiritually?
2. How would you respond to someone who said all sickness is a result of sin? (:14) (9:2,3)
3. Has your joy in God ever been squashed by someone’s concern over religious rituals and traditions?
1. What did they do to you?
2. Have you ever responded to someone in that way?
3. How so?