John Chapter 4

1. In John 13, begins with Jesus has his last meal with all of His apostles. The point of Jesus in this teaching is that he knew who his true disciples were because they had placed all their love and faith in Him. During Jesus the last feast, He knew the devil had already fed his betrayer who was Judas Iscariot (John 13:2). Jesus wrapped a towel around his waist and filled water in the basin and He began washing His disciple’s feet (John 13:4-7). In Palestine, foot washing was very common because people wore sandals out in the street which were filthy, and filled with animals’ excrement (Duke, 1995). According to Duke, it was an honor to have guests and for them to feel valued by having slaves to wash their master’s guest’s feet (1995). Now, here is Jesus as a servant washing his apostles’ feet because that was His way of showing how much they meant to Him (Lett, 2016). His true apostles told Him, “You shall never wash my feet” yet, the opposite of what His betrayer asked Him, “Lord, do you wash my feet” (John 13:6-9). The point of this was to show that Jesus took their feet and “pulled them down a hard path of embarrassment, resistance, acquiescence, assurance—then commands us to get up and love like Christ” (Duke, 1995, p. 398).

Chapter four examines the methods Jesus used to teach and spread his messages about the Kingdom of God. Jesus’s primary audience was the common people of first-century Galilee, so he had to adopt creative techniques to teach uneducated people about an unknown “fantastic” topic, the Kingdom of God. His strategy was successful; amassing a great amount of followers and started the foundation of modern Christianity. The methods he utilized, includes teaching through parables, debates and including examples with miracles and enacted parables.

Growing up as an African American in a white world in the late 1800’s was incredibly ruthless. Even after slavery, blacks had a hard time trying to get work, education or civil rights. Education was a major topic in debate for blacks and whites. Education, the most important thing in life, acts as the key to a person 's future. Education leads to knowledge, and knowledge leads to power. It teaches humans how to prosper and make good decisions. With a good education, people hold the ability to achieve all types of goals, and more doors will open for them. African-Americans held every right to obtain this basic human right. White and blacks took on many different paths with education and W.E.B. Du Bois tell a short story about it all.

John as we know today was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. He was also the brother of James, who was also an apostle. John was the son of Zeebee and of Salome. His father was a fisherman while living in Bethsaida in Galilee on the border of the lake Gennesareth. John's mother was one of many women who gave to the maintenance of Jesus Christ. John's parents were very good people, they loved God and his son. It is said that john and his brother James were fishing when Jesus came and chose them. They were soon known as the fishers of men. The John of whom I am talking about is John the Evangelist.

The Gospel of John, the last of the four gospels in the Bible, is a radical departure from the simple style of the synoptic gospels. It is the only one that does not use parables as a way of showing how Jesus taught, and is the only account of several events, including the raising of Lazarus and Jesus turning water into wine. While essentially the gospel is written anonymously, many scholars believe that it was written by the apostle John sometime between the years 85 and 95 CE in Ephesus. The basic story is that of a testimonial of one of the Apostles and his version of Jesus' ministry. It begins by telling of the divine origins of the birth of Jesus, then goes on to prove that He is the Son of

Matthew chapter five is a sermon by Jesus. It tells us what perspective we ought to have in dealings with each other and with our attitude. Those who are weak shall be strong, and those who mourn shall be comforted tell of positive actions or humility being rewarded. Jesus goes through a list of these, exalting the poor and the weak. Mt. 5:17-20 is between the first section of what actions are righteous and before the section of what seem to be his own version of commandments relative to the law. It says that all shall be done and judged through and by him. So he gave a perspective on the humble and then judged the law. He tells people to be righteous and then tells them the manner in which to

In the Gospel of John 18-33B-37 Pilot and Jesus are having a conversation. Pilot asks Jesus if he is the King of the Jews. Jesus asks Pilot in return if he asked that question because he thought Jesus was the King of the Jews, or because he was told that. Pilot responds to Jesus and said that he was not a Jew and it was his own people who turned in. Pilot then asks Jesus what he has done to make them turn him in. Jesus answers and tells Pilot that his kingdom does not belong to the people of this world. He continues saying that if it did the people would be defending him instead of turning him in as they had done. Pilot asked Jesus for the second time if he was the King of the Jews. This time

John 4:17, “17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no

But here he is wanting heaven to send down fire on anyone who opposed Jesus. Eventually John grew out of his zealous ways. He is a man of many nicknames, but after a lifetime of walking with Jesus we know him as the disciple of

However, the father does not wholly believe in Jesus because he needs to articulate and swear that he does have faith in front of Jesus. Only after knowing that the father now truly believes in Jesus and his ability, Jesus heals the son by ordering the unclean spirit to leave the body alone. Jesus explains that prayer is needed to validate the faith of the non-believers because it acts as a measure of the quality of the faith that man has. This healing event compels the father, who is introduced as an uncertain believer, to completely believe in Jesus by expressing his faith

Finally, a leader approaches Jesus and tells Jesus about his son who is dying. Jesus heals the son of the leader from long distance and the leader and his family believe. But most people did not believe. Even though Jesus performed signs and wonders people rejected him. Jesus came as a sacrifice. We must have true faith and trust in Jesus. Because only through being born from above and looking up to the lifted up Son of Man (Jesus) can we have the eternal living water of

The Gospel of John begins with a profound and beautiful prologue that makes huge claims about who Jesus is and his cosmic significance. This prologue also gives us a significance revelation that John wants to visualize through his writing. There are ten theological truths that John introduced in this important text: - The pre-existence of the Word: I think the key phrases here are "In the beginning" and "before the world began" (1:1-2; see also 17:5) - God/Father and the Word/Son as distinctive but yet one (1:1; 17:21-22) - Jesus as God: the truth that "the Word was God," and Thomas expression after he saw Jesus "My Lord and my God" shows that Jesus is God. (1:1, 18; 20:28) - Everything exists because of Him (1:3): John's prologue described the fullness character of Christ’s work. In 1:3, we can see the expansion of the activity of the Word in creation.

The book of John was written by the Apostle John who is identified as “the disciple whom Jesus loved”. Scholars believe that the book was written sometime between 90 to 110 A.D. The gospel of John begins unlike the other synoptic gospel’s by starting with the story of John the baptist, Jesus’ cousin, it includes the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus and then even includes events after. This book is different from others because of its layout of the stories of Jesus and how John tells them to his audience. In the book of John Jesus talks about his divine role by mentioning the “I am” statements, declarations of identity but also symbols of significance.

Mark was an evangelist. He was not one of the original twelve disciples. His surname was “John” (Acts. 12:12,25). His Roman name was “Marcus”. This name was more commonly used rather than his Jewish name John (Acts 4:10; 13:5,13, Mark 15:39, and 1 Tim. 4:11). He was the son of Mary, a woman of influence and wealth. Mark was born in Jerusalem (Acts 12:12) and was the cousin of Barnabas (Col. 4:10). It was at his mother’s house that Peter found them praying when he was delivered out of prison. It was probably here that Mark got converted by Peter (Mark14:51-52). The date of the book was before A.D. 70 and It was titled

Throughout the Bible, the number seven has had a significant meaning. Beginning in Genesis 1, the number seven was first introduced in God’s creation of the world, where He created it in seven days. The Biblical meaning behind the number seven is both comfort and completion. The series of seven continues in John’s gospel with the seven signs and Jesus’s seven “I am” statements which are: I am the bread of life, I am the light of the world, I am the door, I am the good shepherd, I am the resurrection and the life, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and I am the true vine. In John 14:6, Jesus states the He is the light of the world and this statement had both an impactful meaning then and now.