Jesus takes a miracle that he has done and uses it to teach about who he is and why he has come. This passage also describes how people grumbled amongst themselves and towards Jesus as well.
Loving God, his people and our community
Loving God, his people and our community
Gospel of John (Page 2)
Jesus has just healed a man on the Sabbath against the Jew’s interpretation of God’s laws and they are angry with him. Jesus speaks to them and tells them he works on the Sabbath doing the same works as his Father and they hate him even more.
John writes so that we would believe that Jesus is the Christ. In this account he tells us about the healing at a pool called Bethesda.
In this passage, a royal official begs Jesus to heal his son. Jesus tells him that his son will live. John tells us that this was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed.
We sometimes like to hid our life stories from other people because we are ashamed. The Samaritan woman in this passage shares her story with Jesus, although she discovers he knows everything already.
We can waste our energy on useless things. Sometimes we put ourselves at the centre and not God as we should.
We need a new heart and we need to be born again.
John is writing this book so that we might believe who Jesus is and what he has come to do and out of that belief we receive eternal life. We will focus on verse 17 ‘zeal for your house will consume me’.
There is nothing better than knowing Jesus but you can’t know him unless you have been shown him.
John brings another perspectives from the accounts in the other gospels, Matthew, Mark & Luke. His gospel is written after the others and he writes as an older man.