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@light-in-johns-gospel

Mina Boutros

A slow, verse-by-verse walk through John's Gospel: the signs, the I AM sayings, and the true Light.

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  • Walking While the Light Holds

    John calls Jesus the light more carefully than any of the other gospels. The word shows up at the very start, in the prologue, and then John keeps returning to it at the moments the story turns. It is

    johnsgospel, light, following

  • Sign Number Seven: A Dead Man Walks Out (John 11)

    John's seventh and last sign is the one that gets Jesus killed. Raising Lazarus after four days in the tomb (John 11:39 English - ESV "there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days") is th

    study, doctrine, john, resurrection, +1

  • Sign Number Two: Believing a Bare Sentence (John 4:46-54)

    John counts for us. The healing of the official's son is "the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee"John 4:54 English - ESV, and John sets it back in Cana, the same vil

    johnsgospel, signs, faith, healing, +1

  • The Sign Nobody Asked For

    A man born blind never asks Jesus for his sight. Jesus just gives it to him, unasked, and it costs the man everything else he had: his community, his synagogue, his parents' support. [[John 9:1 Englis

    johnsgospel, healing, study, john, +1

  • Sign Number One: Water, Wine, and Glory (John 2:11)

    John never calls them miracles. His word is semeion, sign, and he closes the Cana story by telling us it was the first of them: "This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifes

    johnsgospel, study, signs, glory

  • Water That Outlives the Cup

    "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring o

    john, grace, water