Tag: John

John 12 I didn’t realize that the chief priests sought to put Lazarus to death after he was raised from the dead by Jesus. I also didn’t realize that Mary anointed the feet of Jesus with spikenard after He raised her brother from the dead – that makes her gift seem much less random. It…

John 11 “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that Bethlehem in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever livery and believeth in me shall never die.” How often see people die emotionally or spiritually and then return to life when they find Christ? How often are too I use…

John 10 Christ is both the door by which the shepherds enter the sheepfold and the Good Shepherd who layest down His life for the sheep. When John says “the Jews” he means the leaders of the Jews (mainly the Pharisees).

John 9 Apparently it was generally known that to speak favorably of Christ would be to invite the displeasure of the Pharisees. Why did John devote an entire chapter to the healing of this blond man? He became a follower of Christ, was he well known among the early saints?

John 8 The Pharisees who were clamoring to have Jesus condemn the woman we not so anxious to actually cast the first stone at the woman. they knew that whoever did so would implicitly suggest himself as the most righteous among them and would find himself more scrutinized in the future. Whenever was most qualified…

John 7 When Jesus taught “if any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself” the people had not yet recognized Him as the teacher from Galilee they had been hearing of. The way Jesus spoke to the officers that the…

John 6 John never mentions Peter waking on the water. This idea of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Jesus must have been confusing until he explained the sacrament but those who truly followed Him should have felt the Asians of the Spirit that they would come to understand it in time. It…

John 5 The people told the man that he shouldn’t be caring his bed on the sabbath. He felt more confident following the instructions of The One who was able to heal him and those instructions were to take up his bed and walk. Jesus’ response here to the charge of blaspheme must have been…

John 4 It seems that the Pharisees really sat up and took notice when Jesus had more baptized followers than John had ever had. The Samaritan woman at the week was responding to the feelings inside her and not simply a desire to reduce her workload by gaining a water source that would replenish itself…

John 3 Apparently there was some (probably very limited) period of time when both John the Baptist and Christ we baptizing people before John was taken to prison. At that point the baptism of John was probably similar to baptism in the average Christian church today – it shows a commitment to God but it…