Jesus Christ died on the cross, was buried by a rich man in a new tomb and was raised from the dead on the third day with His new resurrected body, demonstrating that He has forever conquered death for all who follow Him.

John demonstrates that the long-awaited Messiah is none other than Jesus of Nazareth by showing that His crucifixion, death, and burial fulfilled a number of very important Old Testament passages and themes. As such, we're beckoned to believe in Jesus and have life in His name.

In order to build his heavenly Kingdom, God had the world kill his Son, whose sacrifice led his chosen people out of the kingdom of the world and into the Kingdom of Heaven.

John interweaves the account of Jesus standing sinless before the Jewish leaders with Peter's three denials of Christ, thus highlighting his and our desperate need for Jesus' substitutionary death for sinners.

Jesus is God and willingly chose to go to the cross and drink the cup of God's wrath in full so that His followers would not have to.

Every Christian should be a member of a local church as this kind of vital connection to Christ and His local assembly of followers was assumed of New Testament believers and is vital to both individual believers and Christ's universal Church.

Jesus prays that all who come to faith through the apostolic gospel would be perfected in unity and would persevere to the end where they will forever behold Him in His eternal glory. As such, we must run the race Christ has set before us in unity with our brothers and sisters in Christ as we persevere to glory.

The Lord hears the cries of his children and rescues them from spiritual death, and will one day rescue them from their physical death, which he ultimately demonstrated by rescuing his Son Jesus from the dead.

We must turn to the lover of our souls, who alone can heal our inward rebellion against Him (and others) through His redeeming love for us in Christ Jesus.

Jesus prays that God would glorify Him and would keep his followers in gospel fidelity and set them apart for their mission to the world. As such, believers should seek to glorify God by holding fast to the gospel and passionately proclaiming this glorious message to others.