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A blind man gets his sight, and everyone around him starts arguing about whose fault it was. The disciples and leaders ask, "Who sinned?" But Jesus asks, "What is God about to do?" In John 9, Jesus skips the blame game, takes on the religious elite, and goes back for the outcast nobody else would stand with. Who's really blind here?
Jesus' opponents seek to trap him, but he reveals more about them and himself, than about the sins of the accused woman. You could say he gives a "light sentence" and, at Sukkot, shows himself to all as the light of the world!
Jessica and Chris take on John 7, as Jesus returns to Jerusalem for the Festival of Booths. What will his family say? What will the Jewish people say? Most importantly, what will Jesus say?
Jesus provides food to thousands and saves his followers from a storm. People want to make him king, until he begins to speak some troubling riddles. Will his disciples stay with him?
How does John (and Jesus!) flip the script on an ancient story? How does a stranger at a well engage with Jesus so completely, and what surprising revelation does Jesus make to her? Jessica and Chris talk about it in this episode about the fourth chapter of John.
Nicodemus, a Jewish leader and Bible scholar, has a nighttime riddle-filled visit with Jesus (rebirth, blowing wind, venom antidote, light & life in the Messianic age) as Chris & Jessica examine John 3:1-21.
What do a wedding and a trip to Jerusalem have in common? From joyful celebrations to signs, from moms to prophets, from ritual cleaning to clearing the temple, Jessica and Chris take on the themes of the second chapter of John's gospel: good news!
Jessica and Chris take a deep look at the second part of the first chapter of John's gospel: the role of the Baptizer, the first disciples of Jesus
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