Gospel John study

John 7:25-36 25 At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26 Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah? 27 But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.” 28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29 but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.” 30 At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?” 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him. 33 Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me. 34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.” 35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 36 What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

Some people in Jerusalem saw Jesus preaching in the temple, but the Jewish leaders didn’t say anything, then they said, “Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah?” It’s not so, the Jewish leaders wanted to arrest Jesus, but they didn’t do anything, because his hour had not yet come. They only knew that Jesus was the son of Joseph the carpenter, and they did not believe that he was the Christ or Messiah sent by God the Father. What does Christ mean? Christ or Messiah means the anointed one, the one anointed by the Spirit of God, the Savior. The Old Testament prophesied the coming of Christ. Micah 5:2 prophesied that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. Matthew 2:23 tells us that the Lord Jesus grew up in Nazareth of Galilee. These Jews did not know the Old Testament, so they did not know where Christ came from. When Jesus said that God the Father sent him, they didn’t believe. Jesus did many signs and wonders, they still didn’t believe. But there are many people who saw many miracles Jesus performed and they believed. Jesus also prophesied that he would return to God the Father who sent him soon, that is, he would be crucified on the cross, resurrected three days later and ascended to heaven, and returned to God the Father, he came down from heaven as man and would return to heaven. They didn’t understand what he said. I hope that those who have not yet believed, believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Lord and Savior of our lives.
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John 6:60-71 60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” 61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. 64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. 65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” 66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. 67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.” 70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” 71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)

Last time we talked about the Lord Jesus is the bread of life, and whoever eats this bread, eats His flesh and drinks His blood has eternal life. The Lord Jesus means spiritually, that is, to receive His life and to have His life in us. Jews understand from human point of view, so they could not accept it. The Lord Jesus said, “Does this offend you? Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! ” What does this mean, that means they will find it more difficult to accept. Why? Before the Lord Jesus was crucified, the high priest asked him if he was the Christ, the Son of God. “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” (Mark 14:62) The high priest said that he had been blasphemy, and he would be condemned to death. So when the Son of Man Jesus said he would ascend to where he was before and that he is the Son of God, the Jews would be offended even more, thinking that this was blasphemy. The Lord Jesus continued: The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. The Lord Jesus spoke the words of God the Father. It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ The Lord Jesus is the Son of God, He knows everything, and He had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. Because of the Lord’s words, many disciples stopped following Him. When the Lord asked the twelve disciples, “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Peter answered, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” Peter believed that the Lord Jesus is the Son of God, the Messiah, the Savior of the world .
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)
There is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we are saved. Other religions cannot save people. There is no way to eternal life, only Jesus has the words of eternal life. But one of the twelve disciples, Judas, was the devil, and later he betrayed Jesus. I hope that more people will believe in the Lord and follow the Lord, because only He has the words of eternal life.
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John 6:41-59 ⁴¹ At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?” ⁴³ “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴ “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. ⁴⁶ No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. ⁵⁰ But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”  ⁵² Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³ Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹ He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Last time we talked about the Lord Jesus is the bread of life, today we will talk about the second part. When the Lord Jesus said that I am the bread that came down from heaven, the Jews said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?” They looked at the Lord Jesus from the human point of view, they didn’t know that the Lord Jesus is the Son of God, he descended from heaven, became flesh, and came into the world as a man. The Lord Jesus went on to say that no one can come to him unless God the Father who sent him draws them, those who come to him, believe in him have eternal life. The ancestors of the Jews ate the manna in the wilderness, the physical food still died. The Lord Jesus is the bread of life, the spiritual bread, Whoever eats this bread will never die. When the Lord Jesus said: unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. The Jews understand it from human point of view, thinking that this is cannibalism. Life is in the blood, to eat the Lord’s flesh and drink the Lord’s blood is to receive his life, and to have his life in us. In this way we abide in him, and he abides in us. We will live forever if we eat the bread that came down from heaven.
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John 6:24-40 24  24 Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” 28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” 29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” 30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.” 35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

We studied earlier that the Lord Jesus fed five thousand people, and the crowd came to him later. The Lord Jesus said: you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. The Lord Jesus is the Son of God and He knows everything. Then he said: Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life. The food that spoils is the physical food, and the food that endures to eternal life is the spiritual food, which is given to us by the Lord Jesus, the Son of Man. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval. When the Lord Jesus was baptized, a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” This is the seal of approval from God the Father. When people asked what must they do to do the works God requires, the Lord Jesus replied: “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” Believing in the Lord Jesus sent by God is doing God’s work. In the Old Testament when Israelites were in the wilderness, God gave them manna from heaven to eat. In the New Testament God gave spiritual food from heaven. Jesus said: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. ” The Lord Jesus is the spiritual bread, the bread of life, he is the source of life, he is the fountain of the living water. With him in our lives, with him living in us, and the Holy Spirit living in us, we Read more

John 6:16-21 16 16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, 17 where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. 18 A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. 19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened. 20 But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.” 21 Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

Last time we talked about the Lord Jesus feeding five thousand people. After he sent the crowds away, he went up to the mountain alone to pray. He was there at night. Here we see the importance of prayer. The disciples got on the boat and crossed the lake first, a strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. When the disciples saw Jesus walking on the water and getting closer to the boat, they were afraid and thought it was a ghost. Jesus told them not to be afraid. When the disciples took Jesus to the boat, the wind stopped, and the boat immediately reached the other side, this is another miracle. No one has ever walked on the water. The Lord Jesus walking on the water manifests his divinity.
The following is another scripture passage about the Lord Jesus calming the storm:
23 Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. 24 Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. 25 The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” 26 He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. 27 The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!” (Matthew 8:23-27)

Here it says that the Lord Jesus and his disciples were on the boat and encountered a furious storm, but Jesus was sleeping. The disciples woke him up and cried for help. Jesus calmed the storm immediately and once again demonstrated his divinity. When we have difficulties and needs, we can pray to God, pray to the Lord Jesus. He will answer our prayers and help us.
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John 6:1-15 1 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2 and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. 3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. 4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near. 5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. 7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!” 8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, 9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?” 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). 11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. 12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” 13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. 14 After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” 15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

Jesus feeding five thousand people is the only miracle recorded in all four Gospels. Here it says that many people followed Jesus because they saw the miracles he performed on the sick. Here, the five thousand people do not include women and children, there will be many more people if women and children are included. Philip said: “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!” The Lord Jesus fed five thousand people with five small barley loaves and two small fish, and the disciples filled twelve baskets with the left over. The Lord Jesus gave thanks before distributing the bread. This is also what we do every day before meal, that is, pray and give thank. When the crowd saw the miracle performed by Jesus, they said, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” Moses predicted in the Old Testament about the coming of the Prophet, the coming of the Lord Jesus.
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John 5:30-47 ³⁰ By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me. ³¹ “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. ³² There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true. ³³ “You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴ Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. ³⁵ John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light. ³⁶ “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, ³⁸ nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. ³⁹ You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, ⁴⁰ yet you refuse to come to me to have life. ⁴¹ “I do not accept glory from human beings, ⁴² but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. ⁴³ I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? ⁴⁵ “But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. ⁴⁶ If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”

Here the Lord Jesus said that what he did was not to please himself, but to please God the Father. John the Baptist testified about him, but there is a greater testimony than John, that is, what God the Father wants him to accomplish, the Lord Jesus performed many sings and wonders, etc. All these things testify that he was sent by God the Father. Heavenly Father has himself testified about the Lord Jesus. When the Lord Jesus was baptized, there was a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” The Old Testament also testifies about the Lord Jesus, but people still don’t believe. The Lord Jesus came in the name of the Father, and people did not receive him. If someone else comes in his own name, people will receive him. People receive glory from each other, but do not seek the glory from the only God, don’t seek praise and approval from God, so they cannot believe in Jesus. In the Old Testament Moses wrote about the Lord Jesus. If they believe in what Moses wrote, they will believe in the Lord Jesus. If they don’t believe what Moses wrote, they will not believe in what the Lord Jesus says. The Jews said that they believed in Moses, but they did not believe in the Lord Jesus, so they did not really believe in Moses.
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John 5:19-29 ¹⁹ Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. ²² Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. ²⁴ “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. ²⁵ Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man. ²⁸ “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.

Here the Lord Jesus talked about what God the Father does He also does. The Father raises the dead and gives them life, The Son does the same things. The Lord Jesus used to raise people from death, He said a word Lazarus who had been dead for four days was raised. Now there are testimonies about people who were resurrected by the Lord after they died. People should honor the Lord Jesus as they honor God the Father. Those who believe in the Lord Jesus and believe in God the Father who sent the Son have eternal life. They have passed from death to life, have received new life, resurrected life, and can experience the power of resurrection now. On the last day, the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and will be resurrected. Those who have done good will rise to live, to eternal life, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
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John 5:1-18 1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. ² Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. ³ Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. ⁵ One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” ⁷ “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” ⁸ Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” ⁹ At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, ¹⁰ and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” ¹¹ But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” ¹² So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” ¹³ The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. ¹⁴ Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. ¹⁶ So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. ¹⁷ In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” ¹⁸ For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Here we see that a man who had been sick for 38 years. The Lord Jesus took the initiative to ask him if he wanted to be healed. He wanted, so the Lord Jesus healed him. The Lord Jesus healed him on the Sabbath. According to the Old Testament law, one must rest, cannot work on the Sabbath, The Jewish leader didn’t allow people to do anything on the Sabbath and told the healed man not to carry his mat. The man later told the Jewish leader that it was Jesus who had healed him. So the Jews persecuted Jesus. The Lord Jesus healed the sick on the Sabbath, they said that he broke the Sabbath, and they did not believe that the Lord Jesus was the Son of God.  They claimed that he made himself equal with God, so they wanted to put him to death.

⁹ Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, ¹⁰ and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” ¹¹ He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? ¹² How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” ¹³ Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. ¹⁴ But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus. (Matthew 12:9-14)
Here the Lord Jesus said that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath, so it is lawful for him to heal people on the Sabbath.
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John 4:43-54 43 ⁴³ After the two days he left for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) ⁴⁵ When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there. ⁴⁶ Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. ⁴⁸ “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.” ⁴⁹ The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” ⁵⁰ “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed. ⁵¹ While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. ⁵² When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.” ⁵³ Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed. ⁵⁴ This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

The Lord Jesus said that the prophet has no honor in his own country, so he did not perform many miracles there. Jesus went to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned water into wine. Turning water into wine was the first miracle performed by the Lord Jesus. He didn’t intend to perform it. He did it because of the request and intercession of his mother Mary . This passage talks about the second miracle performed by the Lord Jesus: Healing an official’s son who was sick and dying. The official begged the Lord Jesus to heal his son. With a word from the Lord Jesus, his son lived. Then the official and his whole family believed. The purpose of miracles is to make people believe, but some people still do not believe after they see miracles. The Lord Jesus continues to perform miracles because there are always people who believe. The Lord Jesus did not only perform miracles in the Bible times, he did it through the ages, and is still doing it now.
¹⁴ Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵ And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. ¹⁶ Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. (James 5:14-16)
Here, James said that the sick should ask the elders of the church to pray for healing in the name of the Lord Jesus. Lay believers can also confess sins to each other and pray for each other so that they may be healed.
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John 4:21-42 21 21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” 25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” 27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” 28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. 31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” 33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?” 34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” 39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers. 42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

Last week we talked about the Lord Jesus talking with a Samaritan woman. We saw God’s great love and mercy, He fully accepted a sinful woman. Today we study the second part. The Lord Jesus told a very important truth to this Samaritan woman: God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. What does this mean? Let’s look at the following verses first:
8 These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. (Matthew 15:8-9)
Here the Lord Jesus quoted the Old Testament Isaiah’s prophecy concerning the Pharisees, that they honor God with their lips, but their hearts are far away from God. They taught people human rules, not the truth of God. Therefore, to worship God in spirit and in truth means to worship God with our spirit, with our heart, according to the truth, according to the truth of the Bible, and according to the truth of God.
When the Samaritan woman mentioned about the Messiah, Christ, the Lord Jesus told her that he was the Christ. In the Bible, the Lord Jesus rarely took the initiative to tell people that he was the Christ. When the disciples came back from buying the food and gave some to the Lord Jesus, he said: My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
The Lord Jesus here is talking about the spiritual Read more