Introduction Having spoken to Nicodemus, the Pharisee, about his need of the new birth, the Lord and his disciples went to Judea for a time, where his disciples baptised a number of people. And then they headed for Galilee. And their journey to Galilee took them through Samaria. And at a well, outside the town … Continue reading John 04(27–42) →

Patterns It’s always interesting, I think, to find patterns or repetitions in the Bible. And some scholars see in John 3 and 4 a pattern which is repeated in the book of Acts. At the beginning of the book of Acts, the Lord said to his apostles that they will be his witnesses in Jerusalem … Continue reading John 04(01–26) →

Introduction Last week we spent our time on verses 9 to 21 of John 3. The Lord Jesus had been talking to Nicodemus about the new birth and he had said to Nicodemus that no-one can see or enter the kingdom of God in the life to come unless he is born again of water … Continue reading John 03(22–36) →

Introduction We began to study the conversation between the Lord Jesus and Nicodemus last week. Nicodemus, you might recall, was an important person, because he was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin, or the Jewish ruling council, and it has been suggested by at least one scholar that he was the member of … Continue reading John 03(09–21) →

Introduction Before I went on holiday, we were looking at the story in John 2 of how the Lord Jesus went up to Jerusalem and cleared animals and birds and their sellers from the temple courts. He also overturned the tables of those who were changing money. The temple was to be a place where … Continue reading John 02(23)–03(08) →

Introduction We’re returning to the gospel of John after the break for Christmas. And this is now our tenth Sunday on John’s gospel. We spent six Sundays on the first 18 verses which form the prologue to John’s gospel. And do you remember the prologue? John wrote about the Word of God, who was with … Continue reading John 02(12–22) →

Introduction From verse 19 of John 1, John has been describing for us the first week in the Lord's public life. On Day 1, a delegation from Jerusalem came to find out what they could about John the Baptist who was preaching and baptising in the wilderness. They wanted to know was he the Christ? … Continue reading John 02(01–11) →

Introduction I said last week that what we have from verse 19 of chapter 1 to verse 22 of chapter 2 is a week in the life of the Lord. I still think that's the case, but I had a nagging feeling last week that something wasn't quite right in the way I was counting … Continue reading John 01(35–51) →

Introduction We spent six weeks on the opening of John's gospel and we could have spent even longer on those opening eighteen verses, because they're so rich and so full of wonderful things for us to know about God's Only Begotten Son. John began by referring to him as the Word, who was with God … Continue reading John 01(19–34) →

Introduction I made the point last week that what John tells us about the divine Word in the opening verses of his gospel develops or progresses verse by verse or line by line. John began his gospel by telling us about the Word who was there in the beginning. So, before the creation of the … Continue reading John 01(16–18) →