Review John 1-4

John 1 The Word Was God John's Witness of Christ John's Denial That He Was the Christ Behold the Lamb of God Two of John's Disciples Follow Jesus The Calling of Philip and Nathanael John 2 Jesus Turns Water Into Wine Jesus Cleanses the Temple John 3 Nicodemus Questions Jesus God So Loved the World John's Testimony About Jesus John 4 The Woman at Jacob's Well Fields Are White to Harvest The Belief of the Samaritans Jesus Heals a Nobleman's Son

John 5:1-18

A Healing at the Pool of Bethesda John 5:1-18 (NLT) John 5:1-6 Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people-blind, lame, or paralyzed-lay on the porches. One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him, "Would you like to get well?" (Thought) I would like to stop here for a moment. What would you say if you had been sick for thirty-eight years and were asked if you wanted to be healed? I know I would say yes right away. But this man did not as we will find out in the next part of the reading. I wonder why he did that? John 5:7 "I can't sir," the sick man said, "for I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get there, someone else always gets in ahead of me." (Thought) My thought is he didn't know who Jesus was otherwise he would have said yes without the explanation. He had a point though. He was unable to get himself up to get to the pool so he did need help getting there. John 5:8-13 Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your sleeping mat, and walk!" Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up the mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath day. So the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured, "You can't work on the Sabbath! It's illegal to carry that sleeping mat!" He replied, " The man who healed me said to me, 'pick up your sleeping mat and walk.'" "Who said such a thing as that? they demanded. The man didn't know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him "Now you are well; so stop sinning or somethings even worse may happened to you?" Then the man went to find the Jewish leaders and told them it was Jesus who had healed him. (Thought) A wonderful thing has taken place. A man was healed and all the Jewish leaders concentrated on was the man carrying his mat. So what did the Jewish leaders do? We read this in verse 16-18. The Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules. But Jesus replied, "My Father never stops working, so why should I?:" So the Jewish leaders tried all the more to kill him. In addition to disobeying the Sabbath rules, he had spoken of God as his Father, thereby making himself equal with God. WHAT A STORY! Jesus was not afraid to tell the Jewish leaders who He was even thought He knew it would mean death in His future! Praise the Lord.

John 4:43-54

Jesus Heals a Nobleman's Son John 4:43-54 After Jesus spent a couple of days with the Samaritans he left and went into Galilee. Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no go our in his own country. When he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went into the feast. He came again unto Cana of Gaililee and there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went into him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. Then said Jesus into him, "Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe." The nobleman said ere my child die.unto him, "Sir, come down ere he die." Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way; thy son lives." And the man believed for word that Jesus had spoken into him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, "Thy son liveth." Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him"Thy son liveth:" and himself believed, and his whole house. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.

John 4:39-42

The Belief of the Samaritans John 4:39-42 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come into him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. And many more believed because of his own word; and said unto the woman, "Now we believe, not because of thy saying for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world." (Thought) The woman went into the city to tell all who were there she found the Messiah. The people went back with her to where Jesus was and they heard him speak. When they did many believed. Then the people asked Jesus to stay and he stayed for two days and many more people believed. The woman worked in her field to harvest those who were ready.

John 4:27-38

Fields Are White to Harvest John 4:27-38 And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman; yet no man said, "What sleekest thour? or, Why talkest thou with her?" The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and faith to the men, "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Then they went out if the city, and came into him. In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, "Master, eat." But he said unto them, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." Therefore said the disciples one to another, "Hath any man brought him ought to eat?" Jesus saith into them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth received wages, and gathereth fruit into life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men labored, and ye are entered into their labours." (Thought) Jesus is telling His disciples that the food that He has to eat no one knows of. What Jesus is meant to do is the will of the one Who sent him. He is to finish His work. Right then Jesus was telling them that the harvest was ready to reap. He was sending the disciples to sow what has been reaped. Someone else has labored to get the harvest but His disciples are the ones which will receive the harvest. We too must be about our Savior's business, we are the ones which are on this earth and the Lord sends us to where the harvest is ready to be harvested. We can tell others about the eternal way. Are we looking for the fields?

John 4:1-26

Woman at Jacob's Well John 4:1-26 (NLT) Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, Jesus is baptizing and making more disciples than John (though Jesus himself didn't baptize them-his disciples did.) So he left Judea to return to Galilee. He had to go through Samaria on the way. Eventually he came to the Samaria an village of Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacobs well was there; and Jesus tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to here, "Please give me a drink." He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food? The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, "You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?" Jesus replied, "If you only knew the gift God has for you and who I am, you would ask me, and I would give you living water." "But sir, you don't have a rope or bucket." she said, "and this is a very deep well. Where would you get this living water? And besides, are you greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his cattle enjoyed?" Jesus replied, "People soon become thirsty again after drinking this water. But the water I give them takes away thirst altogether. It becomes a perpetual spring within them, giving them eternal life." Please sir," the woman said, :give me some of that water! Then I'll never be thirsty again, and I won't have to come here to haul water." Go and get your husband," Jesus told her." "I don't have a husband," the woman replied. Jesus said, "You're right! You don't have a husband-for you have had five husbands, and you aren't even married to the man you're living with now." "Sir," the woman said, "you must be a prophet. So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?" Jesus replied, "Believe me, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father here or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans know so little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews. But the time is coming and is already here when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for anyone who will worship him that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in the truth." The woman said, "I know the Messiah will come-the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." Then Jesus told her, "I am the Messiah!" (Thought) We too must worship God in spirit and in truth.

John 3:22-36

John's Testimony About Jesus (NLT) Jesus and disciples left Jerusalem, but they stayed in Judea for a while and baptized there. At this time John the Baptist was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there and people kept coming to him for baptism. This was before John was put into prison. At that time a certain Jew began an argument with John's disciples over ceremonial cleansing. John's disciples came to him and said, "Teacher, the man you met on the other side of the Jordan River, the one you said was the Messiah, is also baptizing people. And everybody is going over there instead of coming here to us." John replied, "God in heaven appoints each person's work. You yourselves know how plainly I told you that I am not the Messiah. I am here in prepare the way for him--that is all. The bride will go where the bridegroom is. A bridegroom's friend rejoices with him, I am the bridegroom's friend, and I am filled with joy at his success. He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less. He has come from above and is greater than anyone else. I am of the earth, and my understanding is limited to the things of earth, but he has come from heaven. He tells what he has seen and heard, but how few believe what he tells them. Those who believe him discover that God is true. For he is sent by God. He speaks God's words, for God's Spirit is upon him without measure or limit. The Father loves his Son, and he has given him authority over everything. And all who believe in God's Son have eternal life. Those who don't obey the Son will never experience eternal life, but the wrath of God remains upon them."