Jesus, the Messiah who has the words of eternal life
John 6:60-71 [1] Rejection by Many Followers 60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?” 61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 What then if you should see the Son of Man […]
Another Witness of Jesus – John the Baptist
John 5:33-35 [1] 33 ‘You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light. Last week, we studied that there […]
The Testimony of Jesus Is Always True
John 5:31-32 [1] 31 ‘If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies in my favour, and I know that his testimony about me is true. The Jewish leaders began to persecute Jesus because they thought He was breaking the Sabbath law (John 5:16). Jesus started his defence from John […]
Jesus, the True Light, the Resurrection and the Life
John 5:26, 21 [1] 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. Happy Easter! Jesus is the […]
Friendship and Revelation
John 5:20-30 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to […]
The Son can do only what he sees his Father doing
John 5:19 [1] 19 Jesus gave them this answer: ‘Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. The reason Jesus did good works on the Sabbath was ‘My Father (God) is always at […]
Repent your persecution. Receive the Gospel. Start a new life.
John 5:16-18 [1] 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defence Jesus said to them, ‘My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.’ 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not […]
Continuing to sin may cause something worse
John 5:9b-15 [1] The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, ‘It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.’ 11 But he replied, ‘The man who made me well said to me, “Pick up your mat and […]
Jesus changed the game. Start to live now.
John 5:1–9a [1] Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, […]
Learning to believe without craving for signs and wonders
John 4:45-54 [1] 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there. 46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose […]
