I. Logos as God and Man (1:1-18)

III. Son of God’s ministry to His disciples (13:1-17:26)

II. Signs of the Son of God (1:19-12:50)

Washing of the disciples’ feet (13:1-17) Prediction of betrayal (13:18-30) New Commandment & prediction of denials (13:31-38) Comfort and instruction: heaven, the Way, sending of the Spirit (14:1-31) Vine & branches (15:1-17) Hatred of the world (15:18-16:4) Work of the Holy Spirit (16:5-16) Sorrow to joy: He has overcome the world (16:17-33) Jesus’ prayer for Himself (17:1-5) Jesus’ prayer for His Disciples (17:6-19) Jesus’ prayer for all believers (17: 20-26)

John the Baptist’s witness: Denial of being the Christ & affirmation that Jesus is the One (1:19-34) First Disciples—James, John, Phillip, & Nathanael (1:35-51)

Sign 1: Water to Wine (2:1-12) Cleansing of the Temple (2:13-25) What do the signs show: Jesus & Nicodemus (3:1-21) John the Baptist: “He must increase” (3:22-36) Jesus and the Samaritan Women (4:1-42)

Sign 2: Healing the Officer’s Son (4:43-54) Sign 3: Sabbath Healing Controversy (5:1-18)

IV. Son of God’s suffering, death, & resurrection (18-20)

Sabbath Defense: Son does nothing on His Own (5:19-47) Sign 4: Feeding 5 thousand (6:1-15)

Arrest of Jesus (18:1-11) Trials before the High Priests: Annas/Peter’s denial Caiaphas/Peter’s denials (18:12-27) Trial before Pilate (18:28-40) Insistence of crucifixion by the crowd (19:1-16) Crucifixion of Jesus (19:17-27) Death of Jesus: “It is finished” & fulfilled (19:28-37) Burial of Jesus (19:38-42) Empty tomb (20:1-9) Appearance to Mary Magdalene (20:10-18) Appearance to His disciples (20:19-23) Appearance to Thomas (20:24-29)

Sign 5: Jesus walks on water (6:16-21) Bread of Life (Manna/flesh and blood of the Son of Man) (6:22-59) Reaction: Rejection and confession (6:60-71) Teaching, Unbelief, and offer of Living Water (7:1-52) Women caught in adultery (7:53-8:11) Light of the World: Sent from the Father, children of Abraham, devil, Son of God’s preexistence (8:12-59)

Sign 6: Blind Man Healed & Controversy (9:1-41) Good Shepherd (10:1-21) Jewish rejection: Jesus’ claim of unity with the Father (10:22-42)

Purpose of the Gospel — “That you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God...and may have life in His name.” (20:30-31)

Sign 7: Raising of Lazarus and Unbelief (11:1-54) Anointing at Bethany (11:55-12:8) Triumphal Entry (12:9-19) Warning: Son of Man will be lifted up (12:20-50)

Appearance by the sea (21:1-14) Reinstatement of Peter: Threefold commission/prediction of Peter’s death, etc. (21:15-24)

Outline of John

V. Appearance and reinstatement of Peter (21)

*Much of this is adapted from Wallace and Bock’s outlines on the Gospel of John (bible.org & Jesus according to Scripture)

Sign 3 Sign 4 Sign 5 Sign 6 Sign 7

4) I am the good shepherd (10:11, 14)

Before Abraham was, I AM

Exodus 3:14

Sabbath Healing (5:1-18)

3) I am the door of the sheepfold (10:7, 9)

John 5:18

Feeding 5000 (6:1-15)

John 8:58

Explicit claim to Deity

Jesus walks on water (6:16-21)

5) I am the resurrection and the life (11: 25)

John 10:30

The Father and I are one

Unity of essence. We are the same!

Blind Man Healed (9:1-41)

6) I am the way, the truth and the life (14:6)

My Lord and my God!

Thomas’ response to the resurrected Christ

Raising of Lazarus(11:1- 54)

John 20:28

Gospel of John

The apostle John makes it abundantly clear what the purpose of his Gospel is, “But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31). The synoptic Gospels describe an “earth up” view, the Gospel of John describes a “heaven down” view. Matthew, Mark and Luke progressively reveal Christ as the Son of God, John affirms the deity of Christ at the very onset in verse 1, “the Word was fully God” and at the very end with Thomas’ proclamation “My Lord and My God” (20:28) and in all the space between (5:18, 8:58-59, 10:30-39, etc.). The first half of the Gospel highlights 7 miraculous “signs” of Jesus’ authority and relationship to the Father (4:48, 5:36, 7:31, 9:16, 12:27-30) that move some to belief, but others to rejection. Jesus’ audience is in- vited to “believe” (100x) in the Son of God for eternal life over and over (1:12, 3:15-18,36, 5:24, 6:47, 7:38, 8:24, 11:25, 12:36,46-47, 14:1, 19:7, 20:29).

Scattered throughout the Gospel is the powerful theme of the Son of God coming to represent, replace, and complete the Jewish institutions and sacred symbols: Jesus is the real temple (2:21), His flesh and blood is the real manna from heaven (6:32, 35), He is the light of the world (8:12), the Good Shepherd (10:11), the resurrection and the life (11:25), the way, the truth, and the life (14:6), and the true vine (15:1). Jesus is the perfect Son, with all of the authority and power from the Father (“sent by the Father” 45x), to fulfill the timely plan (2:4, 7:6, 30, 8:20, 12:23, 13;1, 17:1, 19:28) to save the world from our sins (4:42, 12:32, 13:1, 17:1, 19:28). The religious leaders believed they had the authority of Moses, yet Christ explains how Moses condemns the religious establishment and testified of Christ (5:45-47). Not even Rome had authority over Jesus (19:10-11), it was the Father who empowered the Son with authority (3:35, 5:27) where as Jesus proclaims, I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again (10:18). Jesus’ mission, according to John, was very simple—Jesus was sent by the Father to save the world, whoever believed in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (3:16). Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent (17:3).

7 Signs of the Son of God

Son of God’s “I Am” statements

“The Word was fully God!”

Sign 1 Sign 2

Water to Wine (2:1-12)

1) I am the bread of life (6:35, 41, 48, 51) 2) I am the light of the world (8:12)

John 1:1

The Word was fully God

John’s genealogy traces back to eternity

Healing the Officer’s Son (4:43-54)

Making himself equal with God.

Calling God His Father

7) I am the true vine (15:1, 5)