Last week we went through chapter 9 where Jesus healed a mind that was born blind. He healed him in an usual way by anointing his eyes with clay made from spitting in the dirt. He sent him to the pool of Siloam to wash and he came back seeing. The people in his neighborhood were astonished and brought him to the Pharisees. When he told the Pharisees how that Jesus healed him, they refused to believe and were made spiritually blind. Truth has the power to give sight or take it away.

Last week we went through chapter 8 where Jesus was teaching in the temple when the Pharisees brought to trap him a woman taken in the act of adultery. They tried to push the Lord to either offend the law of Moses or the law of Rome. He paid them no attention and wrote on the ground. When they pressed him, he turned the tables on them by saying “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her”. They were convicted by their own consciences and left. Jesus sent the woman away commanding her to “go, and sin no more”. The he turned to the crowd and said

Last week we went through most of chapter 6 where Jesus fed the five thousand men illustrating that he is the Bread that came down from heaven to fill hungry humanity. He then sent the disciples out on the sea of Galilee while he sent the multitudes away. The disciples were caught in a strong windstorm, and he came walking on the water to them. When he got into the boat, he moved it immediately to the other side. The next day the crowd followed him over the sea and found him. Jesus then revealed their true reason for seeking him,

Last time we went through chapter 4 up to verse 42 which delt with the Lord’s encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. We discussed the long and bitter history between the Jews and Samaritans and got a little understanding on why Jesus sent the disciples away and met her alone. Through a short conversation and an open heart, the woman was told by Jesus that he was the Christ. She believed him and went back into the city to testify to that fact. The city came out to meet him and urged him to stay with them, so he spent two days there. Many more believed after hearing him for themselves. Jesus ended that encounter with a message for his

Last week we went through chapter 3 which gives us the account of Nicodemus coming to Jesus at night with questions. Jesus went right to the heart of the matter with this statement “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”. The new birth message was way over Nicodemus’s head. He said, “How can these things be?” Jesus then gives him a sign to look for that would help him understand the mission of Christ. John 3:14-15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. As the ministry of Christ became more widespread, the disciples of John the Baptist became envious. John explains to them that Jesus is the Son of God, that he came from above and is greater than all, and that John must decrease but Christ must increase.