John 10 – Part 17a
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Jesus continues in John 10:1 by telling a story in answer to the Pharisees question in John 9:40 “Are we blind also?” The story goes like this “if you haven’t…
John 10 – Part 17b
You may be asking at this point, ‘what is the fold, is it heaven or just a safe place for us to hole up when life gets tough?’ I don’t…
John 11 – Part 18a
Here in John 11 we have a story that demonstrates to us in a practical way why Jesus came. It is a story that re-affirms John 10:10 “I am come…
John 11 – Part 18b
When Jesus arrives in Bethany he finds that Lazarus had died and his body placed in a tomb and had been there for four days already. There ensues a conversation…
John 12 – Part 19a
In John 12 I want to draw your attention to a few points rather than connect the narrative as before. As we begin chapter 12 we find that Jesus has…
John 12 – Part 19b
In John 12:12-19 we encounter a very familiar story, the account of Jesus making a triumphal entry on a donkey’s colt, a colt that had never been ridden before. Bethany…
John 13 – Part 20a
Following on from the previous chapter where we introduced the concept of “God in the midst”, the idea that we have to seek and find the spiritual man ‘God the…
John 13 – Part 20b
Betrayal Judas was a man chosen by Jesus to be part of the twelve men that He called disciples, he was a man who obviously showed promise, rising to the…
John 14 – Part 21a
We finished chapter 13 on a note of despair but with an observation that the only way of being able to fulfil Peter’s words of “laying down a life” was…
John 14 – Part 21b
Whenever Jesus uses the words “I am” he is revealing and aligning himself to God. In essence he is saying “we are one.”As we move through this chapter to John…