Before we focus exclusively on our passage, I want to consider the wedding at Cana and the temple cleansing together, and why they might have been placed side by side in chapter 2. The gospel writer, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, placed these two accounts next to one another on purpose, […]
Testament
Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth? John 1:43-51
Verse 43: Here we have a new day in the flow of the narrative in which Jesus decides to go to Galilee. As we saw in our passage last week, Jesus called his first disciples, Andrew, an unnamed disciple, and Simon Peter. As this new day begins, Jesus continues the work of making disciples […]
We Have Found the Messiah, John 1:35-42
Introduction Upon an initial reading of this passage, it may seem to be just a mundane text that narrates us from one point to the next without any real significance to us beyond just explaining the first disciples of Jesus. However, that is just not so. There is great significance in this text […]
How Jesus Takes Away the Sin of the World: Commentary on John 1:29-34
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ 31 I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that […]
The Testimony of John the Baptist: John 1:19-28
John’s Confession The narrative opens telling us that the Jews sent the Priests and the Levites from Jerusalem to found out who John was. The interaction John has with the Jews here seems to be a foreshadowing of how the interactions that Jesus has with the Jews will go. In one sense we […]