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Jesus - The One from Above This last section is ‘free floating’ like 3:16–21; again it is unclear who is the speaker. John the Baptist started talking in 3:27 and some translations continue his speech through to 3:36, while others make this a comment by the evangelist…

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John The People's Commentary - Food and Harvests

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Food & Harvests The woman has gone, but her abandoned water pot is a silent reminder to the disciples that their rabbi was talking with a woman, a Samaritan and a sinner, openly in the middle of the day…

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John The People's Commentary - Come To Me & Drink

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Come To Me & Drink Jesus chose his moment to start teaching in the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles. He provoked mixed reactions, with some seeking to arrest him while others believe (7:30–31)…

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John The People's Commentary - Bearing Witness

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Bearing Witness So far Jesus has made some claims through his signs, which have then been challenged by “the Jews”. He has repeated the claims directly through this discourse, arguing that he shares in God’s activity of giving life and judgment both in the present now and in the …

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John The People's Commentary - Times & Places

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Times & Places This chapter begins with Jesus ‘walking about’ in Galilee (7:1). The verb, periepatei, describes the ‘peripatetic’ life Jesus lived as a wandering teacher and preacher…

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John The People's Commentary - Teaching in Jerusalem

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Teaching in Jerusalem Jesus’ brothers were not the only ones who were expecting him to make a public showing at the festival…

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John The People's Commentary - The Scriptures & Moses

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

The Scriptures & Moses Chapter 5 has given us a good example of how John weaves together signs, dialogues and discourse to develop his story of Jesus. The sign of healing the paralysed man on the Sabbath led to accusations about Jesus’ work and his claims, which have then been te…

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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 - 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 - 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 - 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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John The People's Commentary - Sorrow will Turn to Joy

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Sorrow will Turn to Joy Now that Jesus has warned his disciples of the coming persecution and the presence of the Spirit to convince the world and guide them into truth, he returns to his main theme…

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John The People's Commentary - Going to the Father

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Going to the Father The disciples are still discussing among themselves what Jesus means by all his allusions to ‘a little while’. At the end of the discourse the time has come to be blunt…

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Body - Chapter 7 - Beautiful Bodies?

by SPCK - Paula Gooder

Beautiful bodies? We are now in the position to return to the place from which we began and, I hope, to see it in new light and from a fresh perspective. A position that assumes that Paul is opposed to bodies, that merges body and flesh together as though they are a single word, …

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Intercessions Years A, B and C - Proper 17 Year A

by SPCK - Ian Black

Proper 17 Year A Lord of faith and truth We bless your holy name. Lord Jesus, you shocked your disciples by making them face up to your cross and their own…

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Intercessions Years A, B and C - Proper 19 Year A

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