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  • Week 10 Day 3 – John 21:1-14

    Day 3: John 21:1-14 Stories: Fishers of men Curiosities: 1) Jesus performed a nearly identical miracle to one that Peter had encountered early on in his time with Jesus. A mysterious man caused him to bring in a supernatural catch of fish. In Peter’s world, this could only be God. 2) Why did Jesus appear so few […]

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  • Week 10 Day 3 – John 21:1-14
    Stories: Fishers of men
    Curiosities:
    1) Jesus performed a nearly identical miracle to one that Peter had encountered early on in his time with Jesus. A mysterious man caused him to bring in a supernatural catch of fish. In Peter’s world, this could only be God.
    2) Why did Jesus appear so few times to His disciples? He was on earth for several weeks after His resurrection, so why didn’t He spend all His time with His disciples like before?
    3) Jesus loved fishing metaphors. John doesn’t record this, but we know that Jesus called these men to leave their nets and “fish for men.” He calls us to the same thing today.
    10 min
  • Week 10 Day 2 – John 20:19-31

    Day 2: John 20:19-31 Stories: Jesus appears to His disciples Curiosities: 1) How did Jesus get through the walls? Why did He show them His hands and sides? Why did Jesus’ resurrected body bear the scars of His suffering? Will our resurrected body bear our scars? 2) Did the disciples receive the Holy Spirit now, or was […]

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  • Week 10 Day 2 – John 20:19-31
    Stories: Jesus appears to His disciples
    Curiosities:
    1) How did Jesus get through the walls? Why did He show them His hands and sides? Why did Jesus’ resurrected body bear the scars of His suffering? Will our resurrected body bear our scars?
    2) Did the disciples receive the Holy Spirit now, or was He still to come at Pentecost?
    3) Thomas refused to believe Jesus was risen unless he saw the scars for himself - he wouldn’t take anyone’s word for it. Jesus, in His new M.O. Appeared in the room even though the doors were locked. When Jesus told him that those who hadn’t seen would be blessed, He was speaking of us. How blessed is it to take these men at their words and receive the blessing Jesus promised here!
    4) John tells us at the end of this chapter that the signs and actions of Jesus that he recorded are by no means exhaustive, but hand-chosen to make the point he set out to make in this book - that the Messiah was in fact divine. Jesus was God and the Messiah at the same time.
    14 min
  • Week 10 Day 1 – John 20:1-18

    Day 1: John 20:1-18 Stories: Jesus rises from the dead! Curiosities: 1) Because of the laws regarding Sabbaths and especially the Passover, no one was allowed to touch Jesus until Sunday morning. He wasn’t dead for 3 whole days. Rising on the third day carried a different meaning for the Jews. He died before sundown on Friday, […]

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  • Week 10 Day 1 – John 20:1-18
    Stories: Jesus rises from the dead!
    Curiosities:
    1) Because of the laws regarding Sabbaths and especially the Passover, no one was allowed to touch Jesus until Sunday morning. He wasn’t dead for 3 whole days. Rising on the third day carried a different meaning for the Jews. He died before sundown on Friday, lay dead all Saturday and rose early Sunday morning. He rose on the third day, but not necessarily after 72 hours as we would think of three days today.
    2) Here again John seems to introduce a little humor and friendly ribbing into his book. He and Peter ran to the tomb from where they were, but John outran him. I can see the smile on John’s face as he retold this in Peter’s presence for years to come and I can see Peter rolling his eyes and saying “but…” It looks like John stopped short of entering the tomb because it would have ceremonially defiled him, but Peter bounded straight in, unconcerned with that. That might have been Peter’s comeback to John.
    3) Mary thought someone had taken Jesus’ body. Keep in mind that there were a lot of people who hated Jesus, so this wasn’t beyond reason. She didn’t care about conspiracy theories at this point, she just wanted to find Jesus’ body. When she met the “gardener,” she just wanted to know where He was. Something about hearing her name from His mouth opened her eyes to see Him. What a tender moment.
    4) Why couldn’t Mary touch Jesus? What was it about Him at this moment and about “ascending to His Father” that he didn’t want her to touch Him?
    14 min
  • Week 9 Day 5 – John 19:28-42

    Day 5: John 19:28-42 Stories: The death and burial of Jesus Curiosities: 1) They gave Jesus a vinegar based drink when He said He was thirsty. This just seems cruel on top of the cruelty He had already been shown, but why did Jesus want something to drink just before He died? It was as if […]

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  • Week 9 Day 5 – John 19:28-42
    Stories: The death and burial of Jesus
    Curiosities:
    1) They gave Jesus a vinegar based drink when He said He was thirsty. This just seems cruel on top of the cruelty He had already been shown, but why did Jesus want something to drink just before He died? It was as if this was the last wish He had using His original human body - to taste one last thing. After this, He would have a resurrected body, the kind we will all have one day. I think this goes to understanding that when God made us, He said “it was good.” He made our taste buds, our senses, our emotions - everything about us. Jesus seems to have wanted one last taste with His original earthly body - the one He had said so long ago was “good.”
    2) Jesus’ legs weren’t broken to fulfill scripture that He would be the pure and spotless lamb - blameless and unbroken. John must have come to know the Roman guard who testified to this because he takes special care to point out that the man’s testimony is true. Perhaps he became a believer in the book of Acts?
    3) Joseph and Nicodemus are the only two men to handle Jesus’ dead body. For less than 72 hours in all of eternity, Jesus’ body lay dead and lifeless, and these two men had the privilege to handle and care for it. What a magnificent privilege!
    4) Part of the significance of a new tomb was that there was no mistake of who was in the tomb and who came out under His own power. We know from other gospel accounts that many dead people arose from the dead and left their tombs during the hours of Jesus’ crucifixion. Jesus was not to be confused with one of these many people.
    13 min
  • Week 9 Day 4 – John 19:1-27

    Day 4: John 19:1-27 Stories: Jesus’ crucifixion Curiosities: 1) Not counting it enough to torture and execute a man, the Roman soldiers decided to make sport of Jesus as He was being led to death. When we read that a Roman had someone flogged, most likely it was with something akin to what they called a […]

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  • Week 9 Day 4 – John 19:1-27
    Stories: Jesus’ crucifixion
    Curiosities:
    1) Not counting it enough to torture and execute a man, the Roman soldiers decided to make sport of Jesus as He was being led to death. When we read that a Roman had someone flogged, most likely it was with something akin to what they called a “cat of nine tails.” It was a whip with shards of glass and pottery embedded into the many ends of the whip designed to remove large chunks of flesh as the person was whipped.
    2) Pilate seems to have figured that if he flogged and mocked Jesus in front of them that the Jews would have pity on Him and ask Pilate to release Him. Pilate had no idea how much they hated Jesus.
    3) When Pilate heard that Jesus had claimed to be the Son of God, he became very afraid of Jesus. In other accounts we know that his wife had a dream the night before about him and that Pilate should have nothing to do with Him.
    4) Interestingly enough, the Jewish leadership, who hated their Roman rulers, conveniently claimed Caesar as their king when it meant getting Jesus put to death.
    5) Jesus commands John to take care of His mother, Mary, after His death. We know from church history that Mary followed John around wherever he lived from this time forward. We know that she ended up in Ephesus and most likely died there. This begs the question of what happened to Mary’s other children. Where were they? Had they died?What about James, the brother of Jesus?
    Paradoxes: Crucifixion is a means of torture and execution that exemplifies the height of human depravity. The process was meant to be the most painful, excruciating prolonging of a death sentence possibly ever created. God came to earth to save us and chose to die in the most gruesome and terrible means man has ever invented. Pure righteousness bore our sins on the cross - our greatest wickedness was placed on Him while He suffered the greatest wickedness man has ever displayed publicly.
    15 min

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