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These dramatic chapters draw a line under and highlight one of the most fundamental promises in all the Bible. It is also one of the simplest and most commonly repeated […]

Through Christ, God redeems sinners. That is, by the saving work of Jesus, God has forgiven sinners and made them new creations. When sinners come to Jesus in faith, they […]

Chapter 21 functions as an epilogue to John’s Gospel. It is a kind of lens through which the message of the Gospel is applied to the church as she continues […]

Not a single one of Jesus’ disciples were interested in following after myths. Once Jesus was crucified they scattered. They had no expectation that Jesus would be raised from the […]

The final two chapters of John’s Gospel bring resolution to the ministry of Jesus. This portion of the narrative centers on Jesus’ resurrection which John means for us to understand […]

“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he […]

In the first six verses of this chapter Paul describes how he and the other apostles have faithfully presented the gospel in a hostile world. Paul began his encouragement with […]

This Sunday we’ll be taking a two week detour from the book of John into 2 Corinthians 4. In this letter Paul is making a defense of his ministry against […]

In the middle of the night Jesus was arrested in an olive grove east of the city of Jerusalem. He was tried before the Jewish religious authorities as morning dawned […]

Having handed Jesus over to Pilate, the religious authorities hoped to pressure him into executing Jesus as a threat to Rome, an insurrectionist. This is what is behind their focus […]

In the previous section Jesus was tried by his own people in the presence of Annas and Caiaphas (13-27). Beginning in verse 28 Jesus is put on trial before the […]

The first half of John’s Gospel, the Book of Signs (chapters 1-12) is the account of Jesus’ public ministry with special emphasis on his miraculous signs. The second half of […]

Jesus is fully aware that his departure is immanent. His words in the Farewell Discourse and now his prayer are reflective of the arrival of his “hour.”  He is preparing […]

Throughout this prayer, Jesus mentions “truth” and “the word” multiple times. This theme runs throughout the prayer as Jesus is getting ready to depart from the disciples. During his time […]

Having said all that needed to be said to the disciples, Jesus lifted up a prayer for them. They have yet to reach the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus will […]

This passage is typically thought of as the epilogue of Jesus’ Farewell Discourse. At various times the disciples have responded to Jesus’ words and the events of that Thursday with […]

This passage is the seventh of eight sections in Jesus’ Farewell Discourse. Each section is tied together by the larger purpose of spurring on the disciples to stay the course […]

This passage is the sixth of the eight sections making up Jesus’ Farewell Discourse bookended by a prologue (13:31-38) and an epilogue (16:25-33). Each section offers comfort and consolation to […]

As Jesus and the 11 remaining disciples make their way to the Garden of Gethsemane, he continues to prepare them for what they will experience in the next 24 hours […]