1. In our lesson text we learn that Jesus went to a feast in Jerusalem.  Tell why Jews went to Jerusalem for feasts.  Choose one of the feasts that Jews attended each year under the Old Law and tell about it.  Tell about its purpose and origins and anything interesting you can find.

    1.)  Jews went to Jerusalem for feasts because God commanded them to do so in Exodus 23:14-17.  The three main Jewish feasts were the: Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover) Exodus 12:1-13:16 ; Feast of Harvest (Pentecost or First Fruits or Weeks) Numbers 28:26-31; Acts 2:1-4 and Feast of Ingathering (Tabernacles or Booths) Deut. 16:13-17; Lev. 23:42.  

Choose the right answer

(Warning: watch out for tricky answers)

2. The pool mentioned in this lesson was located (by Joseph's well; by the Sheep Gate; near Naboth's vineyard)

    2.) By the Sheep Gate

3. There was a great multitude of sick people who were waiting for (the second coming; the moving of the water; for a doctor to heal them).

    3.) The moving of the water

4. An angel would (move the water; blow his trumpet; fly swiftly).

    4.) Move the water

5. The first person to step into the pool after the angel came would ( get three wishes; feel better for a while; be healed).

    5.) Be healed

6. There was a man waiting beside the pool who had been sick for (38 days; 38 years; three and a half months).

    6.) 38 years

7. Jesus asked the man this question: (Do you want to be made well?; Are you sick because of your own sin or because of your father's sin?;  How long have you been sick?)

    7.) Do you want to be made well?

8. The man told Jesus (I have no man to put me in the pool.; Please put me in the water when the angel comes.; Others always get in the water before I do.)

    8.) I have no man to put me in the pool. Others always get in the water before I do.

9. Jesus then told the man (Go wash in the pool of Siloam.; Rise and go show yourself to the priest.; Rise, take up your bed and walk.)

    9.) Rise, take up your bed and walk.

10. The day the man was healed was (the seventh day of the week; on the Sabbath; on Sunday)

    10.) On the Sabbath

11. The Jews who saw the man after he was healed said (Can we carry your bed for you?; Where did you buy your bed?; You are breaking the law by carrying your bed on the Sabbath.)

    11.) You are breaking the law by carrying your bed on the Sabbath.

12. The man who had been healed told the Jews (The man who healed me told me to carry my bed.; There was a sale on beds in Cana; I would rather carry my own bed, thanks.)

    12.) The man who healed me told me to carry my bed.

Dictionary Work

Please give the meaning of the following words:

13. Compassion

    13.) Feeling for another's suffering.

14. Kindness

    14.) A friendly attitude toward others.

15. Sympathy

    15.) A feeling (sometimes sad) for what another person is going through.

16. Empathy

    16.) Understanding

Please fill in the blanks:

17. He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your ________  and  ______ .’” (John 5:11)

    17.) bed; walk

18. Then they asked him, “Who is the ________  who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” (John 5:12)

    18.) Man

19.  But the one who was _________   did not know who it was,... (John 5:13)

    19.) healed

20.  For Jesus had withdrawn, a _________  being in that place. (John 5:13)

    20.) multitude

21. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. ______  ___   _________  , lest a worse thing come upon you.”  (John 5:14)

    21.) Sin no more

22. The man departed and told the Jews that it was _____________   who had made him well. (John 5:15)

    22.) Jesus