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GRACE UPON GRACE (7:53-8:30)
Jesus shows His amazing grace, in dealing with a trick question from the Pharisees: Should a young woman caught in adultery be stoned to...
Jun 15, 202414 min read
JESUS FORCES THE ISSUE (7:1-71)
Jesus forces the Jews to face the issue of His identity, by hijacking the Feast of Tabernacles. The first Passover mentioned in John's...
Jun 14, 202413 min read
FROM MEGASTAR TO MAD MAN (6:1-71)
Overnight, Jesus's massive following from His Galilean crusade evaporates. His challenging teaching about being 'the Bread of Life' pops...
Jun 12, 202415 min read
JESUS' VOICE CAN RAISE THE DEAD (5:1ff)
Jesus speaks, and a helpless, hopeless long-term paralytic gets up from his sickbed. This 'sign' speaks of His power to call the dead to...
Jun 11, 20246 min read
TRUE FAITH v PROSPERITY GOSPEL? (4:43)
Jesus meets Herod's courtier, desperate about his dying child. The Jews want to see miracles before believing: Jesus asks the man to...
Jun 10, 20246 min read
LIVING WATER IN A DRY PLACE (4:3-42)
Jesus's exhaustion is an opportunity in disguise. He breaks all social norms, to bring the water of spiritual life to a Samaritan woman....
Jun 9, 202416 min read
BLESSINGS AND CURSES (4:5)
The location of Jacob's well is very significant spiritually. It speaks of our destiny - blessing or curse, heaven or hell - being...
Jun 8, 20245 min read
SPLIT-SCREEN REALITY
Being both God and man, Jesus was continually aware of what His Father was doing and saying, as well as of His earthly surroundings....
Jun 7, 20243 min read
YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN (3:1-21)
Nicodemus, the most eminent theologian of his time, tries to make his own assessment of Jesus - but gets some puzzling answers! His study...
Jun 6, 202414 min read
CLEANSING THE TEMPLE (2:12-25)
Jesus bursts onto the scene in Jerusalem, when He de-monetises the Temple and reclaims it as 'a House of Prayer for all nations' There's...
Jun 5, 20247 min read
THE WEDDING AT CANA (2:1-11)
Jesus re-purposes the massive water jars used for ritual cleansing, to hold an inexhaustible supply of wine. Those who celebrate with the...
Jun 4, 20244 min read
JOHN THE BAPTIST'S ROLE (1:6f,19f; 3:22f)
John-The-Baptist's role was key in preparing the Jews as a nation, to receive Christ: first, by preaching repentance and baptism, and...
Jun 3, 202411 min read
INCARNATION & THE TRINITY (1:14-18)
When John calls Jesus ''the Only-Begotten Son of the Father', he is referring to their eternal father-son relationship within the...
Jun 2, 20248 min read
ALMIGHTY GOD, BECOME MAN (Jn 1:1-18)
In his awesome prologue, John summarises everything about Jesus's identity. Within the eternal Godhead John's opening words convey...
Jun 1, 20246 min read
INTRODUCTION TO JOHN'S GOSPEL
This Gospel was written by one of the twelve eye-witnesses of Jesus's lifework. John wrote it in his old age, after a lifetime's...
May 31, 20242 min read
BACKGROUND INFO FOR JOHN'S GOSPEL
When, where, by whom, and why was it written? Why is it so different from the other gospels? Key themes. John's gospel starts with a...
May 31, 202414 min read
Welcome to this blog about the
Apostle John's First Letter
John's letter is the sequel to Jesus's teaching at the Last Supper, about the new life of fellowship with the Father and the Son which the disciples would experience after He'd risen from the dead.
Week by week new posts will be added as we work our way through the letter. The aim is to help you grow into the same experience, and the same joy, that John had!
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