Seeing how Jesus was treated for His righteous serves as an encouragement to me. As a believer, you find very quickly that people very quickly lose fondness for you in your faith. You get mistreated, ...  Read More

The lesson is primarily informative but there is definitely a takeaway that Jesus iterates in just about all His comments about persecution. What we see is how Jesus is treated in light of His recent ...  Read More

I was listening to a teaching a while ago on the Gospel accounts. In this sermon, David Pawson went over the nature of how narrative texts like this would be written. It would start off very fast. Jes...  Read More

Let's carefully consider what is going on in this context. Jesus just got done with raising Lazarus from the dead, and now we are dealing with the results of that. Many Jews came alongside Mary and Ma...  Read More

45 Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him. 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did. 47 Then the chief ...  Read More

Part of why I believe Jesus was groaning and weeping is because of the hatred of sin and death and the yearning for resurrection. Let us sit in a place of yearning for and longing for the same thing.T...  Read More

One of the more essential facts of the Bible is that the Lord loves His people. We tend to struggle with this concept in application because we like to be a people that do. It is great that we have an...  Read More

Going a slightly different direction from what I have written thus far, I want to focus on the shortest passage in the Bible.Jesus wept.-John 11:35So many that I have heard talk about this have landed...  Read More

25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”-John ...  Read More

Many scholars have agreed and concluded some of the same similarities I want to share with you today. The first of which is the similarities of Moses and his signs and the signs of Jesus. Moses began ...  Read More

This is the last of the miracle accounts recorded in John before the resurrection.Jesus was approached by the sisters of Lazarus of Bethany, as Lazarus had become sick. Jesus, hearing the plea, tells ...  Read More

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazar...  Read More

Take the time to pray that you would have the eyes to see and the ears to hear what the Lord is doing. Make today be a practice of praise. Rejoice in the works of the Lord that He has done through you...  Read More

I had a dear friend of mine who was so good about recognizing the works of the Lord in her life. She had such wonderful eyes to see the Lord moving in things I never would have thought to look. She ca...  Read More

Jesus calls for the Jews around Him to look upon His works and let those testify of who Jesus says He is. If you believe in His works, then you will also believe that He is who He says He is.I am sure...  Read More

There is an essential theme that flows throughout the entirety of this section. In fact, it is the same theme that has been there throughout the whole last 10 chapters. Did you catch it?Believe.This s...  Read More

There is a certain ironic connection going on in the history of this event. If we remember, this is going on during the Feast of Dedication. Part of what this commemorates is a deliverance from Antioc...  Read More

To begin this section, Scripture tells us that it is now the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) in Jerusalem and it was winter. This is drawing a distinction between the previous section that was taking p...  Read More

22 Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. 23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. 24 Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do You keep us ...  Read More

Pray that you would learn to discern the voice of the Lord. Pray the same for your brothers and sisters in Christ. We, as the people of God, are to follow His instruction. Pray for the lost, that they...  Read More

Many of the weeks that we have gone through John, I have shared about how I am taking a step back from distractions. I believe this has been instrumental in developing my relationship with the Lord. M...  Read More

There are a lot of voices out there in our world. There are so many things to follow. We have a multitude of ideologies pushed to us constantly through our phones, media, and entertainment. Everything...  Read More

Jesus, in describing Himself in contrast to the Pharisees, highlights a third role which the reader naturally places themselves in. That would be the role of the sheep.14 I am the good shepherd; and I...  Read More

The language used in this passage is very reminiscent of some Old Testament passages that would have drawn the readers attention. Passages like Jeremiah 23 condemns the shepherds that have scattered t...  Read More