John the Baptist

John realizes in confessing his name he will be an outcast, and have no one's respect. John points out, “I have three children-How may I teach them to walk like men in the world” (IV.703-5). Even his kids won’t have respect for him if he would lie to save his life. In signing his name the community would snicker at his name as they pass the church doors proud not to be a sinner as he was. He would have little to live for in life. He would have few to no friends, his family would be divided and he would be an outcast. As John examines his predicament he must see all the divided families and despair to come unless something was done. In death John put aside his own life to stop the hysteria that would lead to the demise of many more

Saint John of Damascus describes an image as the representation and portrayal of the external form of a person.He highlights that the image can not depict the object of the image’s inner abilities or essence.

The prophets are difficult to interpret mainly due to misunderstandings about their function and form (Fee/Stuart p182). Most dictionaries define the word “prophecy”as ‘foretelling or prediction of what is to come. Using the prophets in this way is highly discerning, for less than 2% of OT prophecy is messianic; less than 5% describes the new covenant age and less than 1% concerns future events (Fee/Stuart p182). The prophets usually announced the immediate future of Judah, Israel and the surrounding nations, rather than our future. Those events were forthcoming for them but past for us (Fee/Stuart p182). The primary function of prophets as a spokesperson was to speak for God to their own contemporaries. Of the hundreds of prophets in

the sake of truth. We can see that John is a good man deep down, who

Prophets declared Gods word as His spokesmen, he did not serve himself, he served the Lord “I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him” (Deut. 18:18). God chose certain people to be able to speak His Word not by their

The purpose of John’s life is to discover his real identity. He realizes that his desire and goals are different from what his family expects him to do. “Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father. It had been said so often that John, without ever thinking about it, had come to believe it himself”. John wants his father’s love, but there is a part of him that feels hatred for his father. “He lived for the day when his father would be dying and he, John, would curse him on his death-bed”. Despite John struggles with uncertainty about his salvation, he finally had his first religion experience. “Elisha,' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says, you remember - please remember - I was saved. I was there.” John has chosen the path of religion, and now he is unlikely to remain under

Johannine literature has a number of underlying themes and uses its many symbols to express to the believer how one is able to obtain the Truth and gain sight in order to experience God. One theme which uses symbols with the expressed goal of bringing people closer to God is discipleship. Disciple is found through the totality of John’s writing and incorporates symbols, biblical figures, and divine instruction in order to bring people into relationship with God. The Gospel of John, the Epistles, and the Book of Revelation make present the theme of discipleship in their own specific and distinct ways. Discipleship in the Gospel of John is elaborately described and acknowledges that one is only a disciple by divine initiative. The Epistles

"It appears, that of all the apostle John was especially favoured with our Lord's regard and confidence, so as to be called the

The divinity of Jesus Christ is something that is very apparent in the gospel of John. Käsemann’s quote

1 John was written by John sometime between 90-95 AD as a personal letter to believers. He is writing concerning the assurance of eternal life as it seems though perhaps some had some doubts as to whether or not they were really saved because of sin. They key word throughout the entirety of the book is fellowship. He discusses some of the hindrances to fellowship, conditions for fellowship, and the benefits of fellowship. He was really trying to encourage the believers to live a Christian life that will lead to assurance. His secondary purpose was to refute Gnosticism and the false teachings related to it that denied some of the aspects of Christ. 1 John 1:5-2:2 is a discussion of the basis for fellowship to emphasize the main objective of

Introduction Dr. Christopher J. H. Wright (Ph. D., Cambridge) is an Old Testament scholar, an ordained Anglican ministry, and is the director of international ministries with the Langham Partnership International. In Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, Wright seeks to display the continuity between the Hebrew Scriptures and Jesus’ self-understanding. Wright maintains that Jesus’ self-understanding rooted in the history of salvation that God planned and worked for Israel. This review will show that Wright’s book provides the reader with a rich understanding of Jesus’ unique identity as the Hebrew

Jesus was declared to be the Mighty God and Everlasting Father long before he was ever conceived in the womb of Mary. The Everlasting Father became the child and son born in the manger. Therefore Jesus truly is Immanuel, God with us. Jesus is Almighty God become a man.

The nobleman asks Jesus again to come and save his son. Jesus tells the man that he can go home; that his son will live. Now, what I find interesting is that the nobleman didn’t even question Jesus or continue begging him to come with him. The nobleman simply left to go home believing that what Jesus had said was true. There is no mention anywhere in the Gospel of John of this man or how he knew of Jesus. It makes sense to me that the nobleman must have witnessed one of Jesus’ thereby reinforcing his faith in Him.

The prophets are some of the most studied individuals in the bible, but often many people overlook the primary mission of the prophets. According to Bratcher “the prophets’ primary task was to call the people

“The gospel gives away more to as who Jesus was as person and telling of his teachings in the ministry. John takes us behind Jesus’s ministry, where we get a glimpse of what it means to believe in Jesus as flesh of the eternal and living God, as the source of light and life, and for a believer to be a ‘Son of God.” (Sparknotes