I don't want this to be like the verse of the day thread. Please do the study people, make it a good thread like the Philemon study.. There's no point to it, if only one person does the study!! Anyway
Dathen's study:....
I read:
New International Version
New Living Translation
New King James Version
A summary of the chapters:
The diciples go ro buy some food, while Jesus has a rest. He meets a samaritan wamen who he gets into deep conversation with. She is converted and spreads the word, converting many more in samaria.
The diciples offer Jesus food, but he refuses. A man comes to Jesus asking to heal his son, and ask soon as Jesus speaks the boy is healed, even though he isn't present.
Jesus notices a lame man at Bethsaida, but he can never reach the water. So Jesus cures him, but gets in trouble because it was the Sabbath.
This leads to Jesus explaining his power and authority to the Jews, but they reject Him even more.
Jesus teaches a great multitude and then performs a miracle by feeding more than 5000 people (Seen 5000 was just the men!) with few loaves of bread and few fish.
The diciples leave by boat and Jesus walks to catch up to them (On the water, another miracle). As they arrive Jesus teaches himself as the bread of Life, you need him to live and then Jesus closes by stating his authority.
Texts that stand out to me:
There's a lot,
John 5:39-40
You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
So true.
John 4:9
Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
Jesus is so kind!!
John 6:70
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
He actually says that right at the start of his ministry.
John 6:39-40
This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. "And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
The blessed hope.
Some great stories among them, that I'll never get sick of...
Anything Unclear:
John 4:22
You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
What exactly is this trying to say? It seems contradictry!
The way it's written:
It's written by the third person perspective. Though the writer appears in the story, he dosn't say I, but uses John like he was any other person. Though the stories contain prophecies themself the book was written after all the events happened, and so is looking back into the past. It is set in places around the east coast of the Mediteranean Sea, 200 or so years ago. Jesus uses phrases like 'I am' and "assuredly I say to you" a lot.
Study Material:
It isn't 100% known whether the healing pool is Bethesda, Bethsaida or Bethzatha.
John was written by John the Aposthe about 90 AD, when he was an old man and Jesus had long left.
