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I Am The Light of the World Jesus chose his moment to go to Jerusalem and teach at the Feast of Tabernacles. During that Feast’s ceremony of drawing water, he announced that he is the source of the living water…

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John The People's Commentary - The Blind Man is Healed

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

The Blind Man is Healed As with Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman and the paralysed man, so the blind man is led by Jesus away from understanding things on a simple physical level to a deeper spiritual reality…

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John The People's Commentary - The Light comes to a Blind Man

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

The Light comes to a Blind Man The story of how the light of the world comes to heal a blind man is beautifully written. Although it is self-contained in chapter 9, its part in the development of the gospel is significant…

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John The People's Commentary - The Truth Will Make You Free

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

The Truth Will Make You Free The debate at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles continues between Jesus and “the Jews”. As often, his hearers are divided. Many of them have come to believe in him and he now addresses those believers (8:30–31)…

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John The People's Commentary - Before Abraham Was, I Am

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Before Abraham Was, I Am This dialogue is set at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles, with its ceremony of light and Jesus’ claim, ‘I am the light of the world’ (8:12)…

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John The People's Commentary - Healing Brings Opposition

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Healing Brings Opposition The blind man’s healing is only the start of this story. More important is what happens next, and everyone’s reactions. After the bystanders’ initial questioning, ‘they lead him to the Pharisees’ (9:13) as Jesus himself will be led to the authorities lat…

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John The People's Commentary - I Was Blind but Now I See

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

I Was Blind but Now I See The Jewish leaders’ interrogation of the blind man’s parents has not given them any answers, but it has confirmed their suspicion and doubts…

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John The People's Commentary - Jesus Brings both Sight & Blindness

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Jesus Brings both Sight & Blindness The extraordinary thing is that Jesus has been missing for most of the story, ever since he told the man to wash in the Pool of Siloam (9:7)…

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John The People's Commentary - I Am The Door

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

I Am The Door The first half of John’s gospel, chapters 1—10, covers Jesus’ miraculous ‘signs’, his teaching and the debates which followed in Galilee and Jerusalem…

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John The People's Commentary - The Father & I Are One

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

The Father & I Are One The debates between Jesus and “the Jews” about his identity have revealed much about his relationship with God. After healing the paralysed man, Jesus called God his Father, saying that he could only do what his Father wanted…

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John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Light in the Darkness

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Light in the Darkness Greek philosophy and many eastern religions had an essential ‘dualism’, a separation between the material world and the spiritual realm. God exists in brilliant light in the world above, while we live in the darkness of created matter…

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John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - They Have Taken Away The Lord

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

They Have Taken Away The Lord The arrival of the Sabbath caused Jesus to be brought down from the cross and buried in a nearby tomb (19:42). Now it is early on Sunday, proi again, just before dawn, the time when they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate on Friday morning (18:28). M…

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John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Gone Fishing

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

GONE FISHING After the climax of Jesus’ resurrection and appearances to Mary, the disciples and to Thomas, the last verses handed the baton on to the reader in what seemed like the end of the gospel…

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John The People's Commentary - The One You Love is Ill

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

The One You Love is Ill Chapter 10 finished Jesus’ public ministry back across the Jordan, where it all began with John the Baptist, and ended all the debates with the religious leaders…

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John The People's Commentary - Lazarus is Asleep

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Lazarus is Asleep After the unexplained delay for two days, Jesus tells his disciples that they are returning to Judaea (11:7). Not surprisingly, they are rather taken aback by this—they have all just escaped from there…

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John The People's Commentary - I Am The Way, Truth & Life

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

I Am The Way, Truth & Life People often start reading the Farewell Discourse here, but this section runs straight on from chapter 13. Starting here misses those opening themes about glory and loving each other, because Jesus is going away…

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John The People's Commentary - Light Sent to Save the World

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Light Sent to Save the World The ‘hour’ has arrived. Jesus has been anointed for burial and welcomed with great rejoicing. He refused the path of violent revolution, but stressed instead that he will be glorified through a self-sacrificial death for everyone, including non-Jews, …

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John The People's Commentary - Father, Glorify Your Son

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Father, Glorify Your Son We now come to one of the most sublime passages of the New Testament. It was common at the end of a farewell speech to pray and pronounce a blessing over the listeners…

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