In this message, we find Jesus still on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee or the sea of Tiberius. This is after he had fed the 5000 with barley loaves and fish.  John 6:16-29 (ESVST) 16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, 17 got into a boat, and started […]

Right at the beginning of chapter 6, we find Jesus whom we left in chapter 5 in Jerusalem, now on the other side of the sea of Galilee also known as the Sea of Tiberius. John does not tell us the exact place Jesus was at, but on the other side of the Sea of […]

In the Old Testament when God established the judicial law for Israel, one of the things that God did was to establish a way that the truth can be verified. If someone was accused of anything, how the judges would know that it was true. The system that God established was what we would call […]

In our last message, we saw Jesus healing a man on sabbath and telling him to take his bed and go. We saw that when the Jews saw this, they were very angry as according to them what Jesus did was a betrayal of the sabbath. Jesus answered them and said that when God is […]

In our last message we saw Jesus in Jerusalem at a pool called Bethesda where he healed a man who was paralyzed for 38 yrs. Jesus did this on a Sabbath. We did highlight that Sabbath was the day the God had decided that the Jews will remember and keep holy. God said no work […]

John 5:1-9 (ESVST) 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. By “after this” refers to after Jesus had healed the official’s son from Capernaum. You will remember that the last act Jesus did in chapter 4 was to heal this official’s son while he was in […]

John 4:43-54 (ESVST) After the two days he departed for Galilee.  Here we see now Jesus leaving Samaria where he was invited to stay by the Samaritans after they believed. Jesus as initially intended, is now leaving for Galilee. Remember that when he left Jerusalem, that was his intention to go to Galilee but had […]

Our last message we saw Jesus and the Samaritan woman ending their conversation with Jesus saying to her that the Christ or the Messiah that she was waiting for has arrived and it is he. This was the first time that Jesus had introduced himself as the Messiah.  John 4:27-42 (ESVST) Just then his disciples […]

We left the previous message where the Samaritan woman was saying to Jesus that the Jews think that Jerusalem is the only place of worship while they as Samaritans think the mountain was the place of worship. Let’s look at how Jesus responds to this statement. 21 Jesus said to her, “ Woman, believe me, […]

In our last message,the Samaritan woman had just asked Jesus to give here the living waters so that she might no longer be thirsty and no longer have to come to the well. 16 Jesus said to her, “ Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” […]