Picking up in John 10 and moving forward just a bit. A brief digression about holidays then on to characteristics and blessings of the true sheep of the Good Shepherd.
There is much yet to explore in John 10, but this week we are just going to focus on our Lord's statement, "I am the Good shepherd." Certainly one of…
Moving into John chapter 10, we will get to one of the best known of John's famous "I Am" statements of Jesus, the Good Shepherd. But we have to get…
We finish John 9 with one last encounter with the formerly blind man that ends in worship, and another encounter with the Pharisee that ends in frustration and anger.
This week we continue the story of the healed blind man from John 9. We will look at him and his neighbors, his parents and the Pharisees, and the healed…
We are moving into John 9. A longish story for the Gospels around the healing of a man born blind.
Finishing up John 8. The audience gets increasingly hostile and show themselves quite unable to grasp the truly marvelous things Jesus is telling them. We should not miss them by…
We continue in John 8. Starting with the verses I ended with last week. Seems to me they form an ending to the previous verses and a beginning to the…
Continuing in John 8 we find Jesus' declaration that he is the Light of the world and the hostile reaction to it by the religious leaders.
As July draws to a close, we enter the strange world of John 8:1-11. Strange you say? Well, there has been a debate going on for centuries about whether or…