John 5:30-47

John 5:30-47 ESV “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
(31) If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true. (32) There is another who bears [...]

John 5:18-30 “Christ’s Authority to Judge and Grant Life”

John 5:18-30 (English Standard Version)
Jesus Is Equal with God
18This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
The Authority of the Son
19So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to [...]

John 3:22-36 – Freedom from Self-Love and Self-Preservation

John 3:22-36 ESV After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. (23) John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized (24) (for John had not yet been put in [...]

John 3:1-21 – The Necessity of the New Birth

John 3:1-21 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. (2) This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do [...]

John 2:13-25 “Jesus Cleansing the Temple”

John 2:13-25 ESV “Jesus Cleansing the Temple”

Note: Different temple cleansing than the synoptics. They have a late ministry cleansing and this is an early ministry cleansing. Some similarities and some differences.
(13) The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
(14) In the temple he found those who were [...]

John 2:1-11: Water into Wine

John 2:1-11 ESV On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. (2) Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

(3) When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” [...]

The Gospel of John: John the Baptist – John 1:19-34

John’s ministry was to prepare hearts and minds to receive Christ as the promised Savior of the world. John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance and it demonstrates to us that we must repent and believe the gospel in order to have restoration with God.

John 1:1-18: Jesus is not just a man

PDF Document of my tracing of John 1:1-18
According to John 20:31, the reason John wrote this book is “so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”  Keep this in mind as we examine John 1:1-18.  This passage may be [...]

The Lord as seen in the book of Hosea

The faithfulness of the Lord to His covenant, symbolized and demonstrated, by means of discipline with the promise of redemption; written to instruct us about how the Lord deals with His people: namely, His justice in punishing sin and mercy in forgiving sin.

Hosea – The Covenant Broken: Disregarding the Law of the Lord

Hosea 1:1-2 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take [...]