John

No. 7 John 7:16-20
John's Gospel is the last of the four and the most reflective, circling around who Jesus is. By this chapter he is a wanted man. The authorities have already decided to kill him (7:1), and he has come to...
No. 14 John 18:12-17
This is John's account of the hours after Jesus's arrest. Seized in the garden, he is led away first to Annas, the aging power behind the high priesthood in Jerusalem, whose son-in-law Caiaphas held the office...
No. 55 John 13:1-6
John's Gospel spends five chapters on Jesus's last night with his disciples, and it opens here. Passover is coming, and Jesus knows his hour has arrived. The text stacks up what he knows before he moves: that...
No. 95 John 10:19-24
Jesus has just called himself the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep, and this passage is the reaction. The crowd splits. Many say he has a demon and is out of his mind, so why listen. Others...
No. 136 John 6:7-15
A large crowd has followed Jesus around the Sea of Galilee, and he asks Philip where they can buy bread. This passage is the answer, the meal, and what the crowd tries to do afterward.
No. 148 John 20:11-15
Peter and the other disciple have run to the tomb, found it empty, and gone home. This passage is Mary Magdalene, who stayed. The scene is built almost entirely out of her not understanding what she is looking...
No. 206 John 4:18-24
Jesus is sitting by a well in Samaria, tired from the road, talking with a woman who came at noon, the hottest hour, likely to avoid the other women. He has just told her about her five husbands and the man...
No. 250 John 9:1-7
Jesus and his disciples come upon a man who has been blind since the day he was born, and the disciples react the way people have always reacted to suffering. They ask whose fault it is. Rabbi, they say, who...
No. 261 John 8:19-24
Jesus is teaching in the temple, in the part called the treasury, and this is a tense, riddling exchange with people who will not accept what he claims about himself. The whole passage runs on the sense of two...
No. 295 John 2:1-5
This is the opening of Jesus' first miracle, at a village wedding in Cana, and the passage stops just before the miracle itself, on the small exchange that sets it up. The whole scene turns on a mother, a...
No. 343 John 11:8-12
Jesus announces that he is going to Bethany, in Judea, and his disciples are alarmed, because Judea is exactly where the authorities had just tried to stone him. Rabbi, they say, they were just now trying to...
No. 349 John 1:24-28
The religious authorities have sent a delegation to interrogate John the Baptist, and their questions are all about credentials. Are you the Christ? Are you Elijah? Are you the prophet? And if you are none of...
No. 366 John 21:6-10
This is a resurrection morning by the Sea of Galilee. The disciples have fished all night and caught nothing, and a figure on the shore, whom they do not yet recognize, tells them to cast the net on the other...
No. 372 John 3:9-21
Nicodemus, a respected teacher, has come to Jesus at night, and he is baffled: how can these things be? Jesus' answer moves through some of the most famous lines in the Bible, that as Moses lifted up the...
No. 379 John 8:30-38
Jesus has just been speaking, and many have believed in him. To these new believers he makes a promise that has become one of the most quoted lines in the world: if you continue in my word, you are truly my...
No. 386 John 1:35-39
This is the first time anyone follows Jesus in John's Gospel, and it happens quietly. John the Baptist is standing with two of his own disciples, sees Jesus walking by, and says, behold, the Lamb of God. The...
No. 425 John 10:1-6
Jesus tells a small parable about a sheepfold, and the whole thing turns on a sound: the shepherd's voice. He describes the shepherd coming to the pen in the morning. The gatekeeper opens for him, and the...
No. 454 John 1:29-34
John the Baptist sees Jesus walking toward him and makes one of the most compressed declarations of the gospel in all of Scripture: behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. In a single...
No. 486 John 18:28-32
It is early morning, and Jesus has been led from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium, the residence of the Roman governor Pilate. And John records a small, damning detail about the men who brought him....
No. 503 John 6:66-71
This is one of the saddest verses in the Gospels, and one of the truest. Jesus has just given the hard teaching about eating his flesh and drinking his blood, and it is too much for the crowd of followers....
No. 513 John 11:1-7
Word comes to Jesus that his friend Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, is seriously ill. The sisters' message is simple and full of trust: Lord, the one you love is sick. They know Jesus loves Lazarus,...
No. 550 John 14:6-21
At the Last Supper, Philip voices a longing that lives in nearly everyone: Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us. Just let us see God, and we will be satisfied. It is one of the most honest...
No. 608 John 2:18-25
After Jesus clears the temple, the authorities demand a sign to justify his authority, and he gives them a cryptic one: destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. They think he means the great...
No. 635 John 6:22-27
The day after Jesus fed the five thousand, the crowds track him down across the lake, and he sees straight through why they have come. You seek me, he tells them, not because you saw signs, but because you ate...
No. 702 John 21:16-25
John's Gospel adds a last scene by the lake, and it belongs to Peter, who had denied Jesus three times on the night of the arrest. Three times now the risen Jesus asks him, Simon, do you love me, and three...
No. 713 John 21:11-15
After the resurrection the disciples have gone back to fishing and caught nothing all night, until a figure on the shore tells them to try the other side and the net comes up heavy. John counts the fish, a...
No. 725 John 7:40-45
It is the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus has been teaching in the temple, and the crowd cannot agree about him. Some say, this is really the Prophet. Others say, this is the Christ. But a third group has an...
No. 726 John 20:16-23
Easter morning, and Mary Magdalene is weeping at the empty tomb, mistaking the risen Jesus for the gardener, until he says one word: Mary. She turns and knows him, and cries out, Rabboni, teacher, and reaches...
No. 737 John 18:1-5
John's account of the arrest is unlike the others. Jesus finishes speaking and crosses the Kidron valley with his disciples into a garden where he often met with them, a place, John notes pointedly, that Judas...
No. 738 John 11:49-57
The raising of Lazarus has forced the council's hand. If everyone follows this man, they reason, the Romans will come and destroy the temple and the nation, and they cannot allow it. Into the anxious debate...
No. 751 John 12:1-6
Six days before the Passover, Jesus is at supper in Bethany, in the home of the man he had raised from the dead, and Lazarus is right there at the table. Martha serves, as she does. And Mary does something...
No. 849 John 7:28-32
It is the middle of the feast, and Jesus, teaching in the temple, calls out in response to a crowd that thinks it has him figured out. So you know me, he says, and you know where I am from. They did know the...
No. 913 John 2:6-11
This is the wedding at Cana, Jesus' first sign in John's Gospel. The wine has run out, a quiet disaster for the host, and Jesus tells the servants to fill six large stone jars, the kind used for ceremonial...
No. 954 John 11:23-27
Lazarus has died, and his sister Martha meets Jesus on the road with grief and a gentle reproach. Jesus tells her, your brother will rise again. Martha, a believer, answers with correct but distant doctrine: I...
No. 987 John 4:31-38
Jesus has just spoken with the Samaritan woman at the well, and she has run off to bring her whole town. His disciples, returning with food, urge him to eat. He answers with something they do not understand: I...
No. 1005 John 18:18-22
Jesus has been arrested and brought before Annas, the former high priest, for a preliminary interrogation. Outside, around a charcoal fire, the servants and officers are warming themselves, and Peter stands...
No. 1064 John 17:20-26
This is the end of Jesus' great prayer on the night before he died, and here he prays for us, for those who will believe in him through the disciples' word. His central request is unity: that they may all be...
No. 1082 John 20:1-10
It is still dark on the first day of the week when Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb and finds the stone rolled away. She runs to tell Peter and the beloved disciple, they have taken the Lord and we do not know...
No. 1184 John 5:7-11
By the pool of Bethesda, where the sick waited for the water to be stirred, believing the first one in would be healed, lies a man who has been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus asks if he wants to...
No. 1217 John 16:29-33
On the last night, the disciples finally think they understand: now you are speaking plainly; now we know you know all things; by this we believe you came from God. Jesus gently punctures their confidence: do...
No. 1295 John 5:24-30
Jesus makes a series of staggering claims about himself and about life and death. Truly, he says, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he does not come into judgment but has...
No. 1306 John 9:24-29
The man born blind, now healed by Jesus, is hauled before the Pharisees a second time. They press him to denounce his healer: give glory to God; we know this man is a sinner. But the man refuses to be drawn...
No. 1326 John 19:1-5
Pilate has Jesus flogged. The soldiers twist together a crown of thorns and press it onto his head, throw a purple robe over him, and come up to him with a jeering salute, Hail, King of the Jews, striking him...
No. 1477 John 12:7-11
Mary of Bethany has poured a jar of costly perfume over Jesus' feet, and some have objected that it was wasteful, that the money might have gone to the poor. Jesus defends her: leave her alone; she has kept...
No. 1504 John 16:12-16
In his farewell to his disciples, Jesus tells them there is more he wants to say than they can yet receive. I still have many things to tell you, he says, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth...
No. 1517 John 9:18-23
The authorities refuse to believe that the man born blind has truly been healed, and summon his parents to interrogate them. Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How does he now see? The parents...
No. 1720 John 8:25-29
The people press Jesus to say plainly who he is, and he speaks of his relationship to the Father. He who sent me is true, he says, and I speak to the world what I have heard from him. They do not understand...
No. 1780 John 15:1-7
Jesus calls himself the true vine and his Father the gardener. Every branch in him that bears no fruit, the Father takes away; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more. Remain...
No. 1815 John 6:60-65
After Jesus has taught that he is the bread of life, that his followers must feed on him, many of his disciples recoil. This is a hard saying, they mutter; who can listen to it? Jesus, knowing their grumbling,...
No. 1900 John 4:49-54
A royal official whose son is dying comes to Jesus, begging him to come down and heal the boy before he dies. But Jesus does not go with him. Go your way, he says; your son lives. And the man does something...
No. 1923 John 9:8-12
The man born blind, now healed, becomes the talk of his neighbors. Some say, isn't this the beggar who used to sit here? Others say it only looks like him. He settles it: I am the man. They press him: how were...
No. 2066 John 1:1-5
John opens his Gospel not with a birth but with eternity. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through him all things were made; in him was life, and that life was...
No. 2106 John 10:7-18
Jesus describes himself with one of his most tender images: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd, he says, lays down his life for the sheep. He contrasts himself with the hired hand, who does not own the...
No. 2125 John 2:12-17
Coming to the temple at Passover, Jesus finds its courts turned into a marketplace: merchants selling oxen, sheep, and doves, money-changers at their tables, the place of worship become a place of trade and...
No. 2140 John 11:28-32
After the death of Lazarus, when Jesus finally comes, Martha goes to tell her sister Mary, the Teacher is here and is calling you. Mary rises quickly and goes to him. And when she reaches Jesus and sees him,...
No. 2149 John 11:44-48
Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, and the man walks out of the tomb still bound in his graveclothes. Unbind him, Jesus says, and let him go. Many who witnessed this undeniable sign believed in him. But...
No. 2152 John 12:27-33
As the cross draws near, Jesus speaks openly of his inner struggle. Now my soul is troubled, he says. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father,...
No. 2168 John 9:30-34
The man born blind, whom Jesus healed, is interrogated by the hostile Pharisees, who want him to denounce Jesus as a sinner. But the man will not deny what he knows. How amazing, he says; you do not know where...
No. 2270 John 10:25-30
Jesus speaks of the security of those who belong to him. My sheep hear my voice, he says, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them...
No. 2273 John 14:22-31
On the night before his death, as his disciples face the fear and grief of his leaving, Jesus gives them a gift. Peace I leave with you, he says; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to...
No. 2291 John 3:22-26
As both Jesus and John the Baptist are baptizing, John's disciples come to him troubled. Rabbi, they say, the one who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you testified, behold, he is baptizing, and...
No. 2322 John 5:18-23
When Jesus' opponents seek to kill him for calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God, Jesus does not deny it but explains the relationship. The Son does nothing on his own, but only what he...
No. 2333 John 8:7-11
A woman caught in adultery is brought to Jesus by those who would stone her, testing him. He answers, let him who is without sin among you throw the first stone at her. One by one, convicted by their...
No. 2334 John 9:13-17
The man born blind, now healed, is brought before the Pharisees, and a division arises among them. Some say, this man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath. Others say, how can a man who is a...
No. 2336 John 4:1-6
As Jesus travels from Judea to Galilee, he passes through Samaria and comes to a town called Sychar, near Jacob's well. And the account gives a small but telling detail: Jesus, being tired from his journey,...
No. 2464 John 18:33-40
Pilate questions Jesus privately: are you the King of the Jews? Jesus answers that his kingdom is not of this world, or his servants would fight; then he says he was born and came into the world to testify to...
No. 2469 John 7:46-53
The temple officers sent to arrest Jesus come back empty-handed with an explanation: no one ever spoke like this man. The Pharisees scoff at them and at the crowd, this mob that does not know the law is...
No. 2484 John 5:12-17
A man who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years has just been healed at the pool, told by Jesus to pick up his mat and walk. Later Jesus finds him in the temple and adds something to the miracle: see, you...
No. 2516 John 19:28-37
John records the last moments at the cross with unusual precision. Knowing all was now accomplished, Jesus says, I thirst, and after receiving the sour wine, he speaks one word that the Greek renders as a...
No. 2541 John 18:6-11
In the garden, the arresting party comes for Jesus, and when he says, I am he, they draw back and fall to the ground. He asks whom they seek, gives himself up, and asks only that his disciples be let go. Then...
No. 2544 John 5:1-6
By the pool called Bethesda, surrounded by the sick and the blind and the lame, lies a man who has been an invalid for thirty-eight years. Jesus sees him, knows how long he has been this way, and asks a...
No. 2548 John 8:48-53
The crowd hurls an insult at Jesus: you are a Samaritan and have a demon. His answer is composed. I do not have a demon, he says; I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. And then a line worth marking: I do not...
No. 2550 John 6:52-59
In the synagogue at Capernaum, Jesus presses a teaching that scandalizes his hearers. Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, he says, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on him has...
No. 2584 John 1:14-18
John's prologue reaches its center: the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. He did not stay a distant idea or an...
No. 2619 John 16:17-22
On the night before he dies, Jesus tells the disciples that in a little while they will not see him, and then a little while and they will. They are baffled. He does not explain the timeline; he gives them a...
No. 2673 John 4:13-17
At the well, Jesus tells the Samaritan woman that everyone who drinks ordinary water will get thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water he gives will never thirst; it becomes in them a spring of water...
No. 2719 John 3:27-36
John the Baptist's disciples come to him uneasy: the crowds that were coming to John are now streaming to Jesus. John's answer is a model of humility. A man can receive nothing, he says, unless it is given...
No. 2740 John 19:22-27
John gathers several small scenes at the foot of the cross. Pilate refuses to soften the sign over Jesus, what I have written, I have written. The soldiers divide his clothes and gamble for the tunic woven in...
No. 2741 John 12:34-38
The crowd is stuck on a puzzle. We were taught the Christ remains forever, so how can you say the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man? Jesus does not untangle the riddle for them. Instead he...
No. 2786 John 19:6-10
The chief priests and officers see Jesus and shout, Crucify! Crucify! Pilate, worn down, throws it back at them: take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge. They press their real...
No. 2787 John 13:26-30
At the last supper Jesus reveals his betrayer by an act of intimacy: he will hand the man a piece of bread dipped in the dish, the gesture of a host honoring a favored guest. He dips it and gives it to Judas....
No. 2792 John 11:13-22
Jesus tells the disciples plainly, Lazarus is dead, and adds words that must have puzzled them: I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Thomas, gloomy and loyal, says, let us...
No. 2827 John 15:8-16
Jesus continues the discourse of the vine. My Father is glorified, he says, when you bear much fruit. As the Father loved me, I have loved you; now abide in my love. Then he lifts the whole relationship to a...
No. 2873 John 13:7-20
At the last supper Jesus kneels to wash the disciples' feet, and Peter recoils: you will never wash my feet. Jesus answers, if I do not wash you, you have no part with me. Peter swings to the opposite extreme,...
No. 2877 John 4:7-12
Tired from the journey, Jesus sits at a well in Samaria and asks a Samaritan woman for a drink. She is startled, because Jews and Samaritans had nothing to do with one another, and a man did not usually speak...
No. 2880 John 15:17-27
Jesus prepares his friends for hostility. If the world hates you, he says, know that it hated me before it hated you. Because you do not belong to the world, since I chose you out of it, the world hates you. A...
No. 2894 John 20:24-31
Thomas was not there the first time the risen Jesus appeared, and he refuses to believe on the others' word: unless I see the nail marks and put my hand in his side, I will not believe. Eight days later Jesus...
No. 2917 John 17:6-19
In his prayer on the night before he dies, Jesus prays not for the world at large but for those the Father has given him. He has revealed the Father's name to them and kept them, and now, as he returns to the...
No. 2957 John 6:16-21
Evening comes, and the disciples set out across the sea toward Capernaum in the dark, without Jesus. A great wind rises and the water grows rough. When they have rowed three or four miles, straining at the...
No. 2995 John 8:12-18
Jesus makes a staggering claim: I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. The Pharisees object that a man testifying about himself proves...
No. 3022 John 4:39-48
Many Samaritans believe in Jesus because of the woman's testimony, and when they come to him, they beg him to stay, and he remains two days. Then more believe, and they tell her: now we believe, not because of...
No. 3059 John 19:11-15
Jesus tells Pilate the truth about his authority: you would have no power over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Pilate tries to release him, but the crowd threatens: if you free this man, you...
No. 3071 John 5:39-47
Jesus makes a sobering charge to the leaders who oppose him. You search the Scriptures, he says, because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is these that bear witness about me, and yet you...
No. 3110 John 8:1-6
Early in the morning Jesus is teaching in the temple when the scribes and Pharisees drag in a woman caught in adultery, set her in the middle of everyone, and demand: Moses commanded us to stone such women;...
No. 3112 John 8:39-47
The leaders claim Abraham, and then God, as their father. But Jesus tests the claim: if you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham; instead you seek to kill me for telling the truth. If God...
No. 3128 John 4:25-30
The Samaritan woman says, I know that Messiah is coming; when he comes, he will tell us all things. And Jesus answers, I who speak to you am he. Just then the disciples return, surprised he is speaking with a...
No. 3156 John 12:39-43
John explains why so many could not believe, seeing in it the fulfillment of Isaiah's word about blinded eyes and hardened hearts. And yet, he adds, even many of the rulers did believe in Jesus, but they would...
No. 3160 John 11:33-37
When Jesus sees Mary weeping, and the others weeping with her over the death of Lazarus, he is deeply moved in his spirit and troubled. He asks where they have laid him, and then comes the shortest sentence in...
No. 3178 John 14:1-5
On the night before he dies, Jesus turns to comfort his frightened friends. Do not let your heart be troubled, he says; believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; I am going to...
No. 3225 John 17:1-5
The hour has come, and Jesus lifts his eyes to heaven and prays: Father, glorify your Son, that the Son may glorify you. You gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given...
No. 3227 John 21:1-5
After the resurrection, Jesus shows himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. Peter says, I am going fishing, and the others go with him. They fish all night and catch nothing. Then, as day...
No. 3298 John 10:31-42
The crowd takes up stones to kill Jesus for blasphemy, because, they say, you being a man make yourself God. Jesus answers by pointing to what he does: if I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe...
No. 3304 John 12:44-50
Jesus cries out with a series of striking claims: whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me; whoever sees me sees the one who sent me. I have come as light into the world, so that no one...
No. 3401 John 16:23-28
Jesus tells his disciples of a new access to God: in that day, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. And then he says something...
No. 3470 John 1:19-23
When the religious authorities press John the Baptist about his identity, what is remarkable is how much he denies. He is not the Christ. He is not Elijah. He is not the prophet. He refuses every grand title...
No. 3480 John 13:31-38
At the Last Supper Jesus gives what he calls a new commandment: love one another; just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. And he names the mark by which the world will recognize his...
No. 3528 John 13:21-25
At the Last Supper, Jesus is troubled in spirit and says plainly, one of you will betray me. The disciples look at one another, bewildered, and no one is certain who it could be, a sign of how well Judas had...
No. 3575 John 18:23-27
While Jesus stands bound before the high priest, answering with quiet dignity even as he is struck, Peter stands outside warming himself at the fire, and denies his Lord two more times. When someone recognizes...
No. 3581 John 5:31-38
Jesus points to the witnesses that testify to who he is. John the Baptist bore witness, a burning and shining lamp in whose light people rejoiced for a while. But Jesus says he has a witness greater than...
No. 3600 John 6:41-51
The crowd grumbles at Jesus' claim to be the bread that came down from heaven; they know his family, so how can he claim a heavenly origin? Jesus, far from retreating, deepens the claim. He says something...
No. 3647 John 11:38-43
At Lazarus's tomb, Jesus commands, take away the stone. Martha objects with grim realism: Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days. But Jesus answers, did I not tell you that if you...
No. 3684 John 19:16-21
John records the crucifixion with restraint, and dwells on the title Pilate fixed to the cross: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews, written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek so that all could read it. The chief...
No. 3685 John 7:21-27
Challenged for healing on the Sabbath, Jesus points out the inconsistency: they circumcise a boy on the Sabbath to keep the law of Moses, yet they are angry that he made a whole man well on the Sabbath. If a...
No. 3705 John 7:1-5
As the feast approaches, Jesus' own brothers urge him, half-mockingly, to go to Judea and make a public display of his works, for no one seeking recognition works in secret; show yourself to the world, they...
No. 3787 John 9:35-41
After the man born blind is healed and then thrown out by the religious leaders, Jesus seeks him out and reveals himself: do you believe in the Son of Man? The man responds with faith, Lord, I believe, and...
No. 3865 John 1:6-13
John introduces the coming of the true light, Christ, into the world, and records both a tragedy and a wonder. The tragedy: he came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. The very world made...
No. 3891 John 6:28-33
The crowd asks Jesus a very natural question: what must we do to be doing the works of God? They assume that pleasing God is a matter of doing the right things, performing the right works. But Jesus turns...
No. 3923 John 3:1-8
Nicodemus, a respected teacher, comes to Jesus by night, acknowledging him as a teacher from God. But Jesus cuts past the compliment to something radical: unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of...
No. 3962 John 8:54-59
In a heated exchange, Jesus makes a claim so staggering that his hearers immediately pick up stones to kill him. Speaking of Abraham, who had lived two thousand years before, he says: your father Abraham...
No. 3963 John 12:12-19
As Jesus enters Jerusalem, a great crowd greets him with palm branches and shouts of Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel. They hail him as king, and indeed he is. But...
No. 4007 John 1:40-45
In these verses we see how the earliest disciples were drawn to Jesus, and it happened through a simple, personal chain. Andrew, having found Jesus, first goes to find his own brother Simon, telling him, we...
No. 4030 John 7:33-39
On the last day of the great feast, Jesus stands and calls out with an open invitation: if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will...
No. 4118 John 1:46-51
When Philip tells Nathanael they have found the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, Nathanael is skeptical: can anything good come out of Nazareth? But he comes to see, and Jesus greets him with a surprising word:...
No. 4130 John 16:1-11
As Jesus prepares his disciples for his departure, warning them of coming persecution, he says something that seems, at first, hard to accept: it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away,...
No. 4198 John 6:34-40
Jesus declares himself the bread of life: whoever comes to him will never hunger, and whoever believes in him will never thirst. And then he makes a promise of remarkable security: the one who comes to me I...
No. 4225 John 7:6-15
Jesus' brothers urge him to go up to the feast in Judea and make himself public, to show himself to the world. But Jesus answers, my time has not yet come; your time is always here. He will not be pressured...
No. 4231 John 6:1-6
Seeing a great crowd coming and knowing they need to be fed, Jesus turns to Philip and asks, where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat? It is an impossible question; there is no way to feed...
No. 4273 John 12:20-26
When some Greeks come seeking to see Jesus, he responds with words about his coming death, and he draws from it a principle that reaches to the heart of the Christian life: unless a grain of wheat falls into...
No. 4296 John 19:38-42
After the crucifixion, two men step forward to bury Jesus: Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple who had kept it secret for fear, and Nicodemus, who had first come to Jesus by night. Now, at the moment of apparent...