New Testament Survey

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• New Testament Survey
• Class 5
• The Gospel of John

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Basic Facts about the Gospel of John

• Who wrote it?
• John 2124 eyewitness
• John 2120 the disciple whom Jesus loved
• Identified by other writers as the Apostle John
• When was it written?
• Probably near the end of the 1st Century in
  Ephesus
• before or after Exile to Patmos
• (photo by levork/Julian Fong)

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Why was John written?

• John 2030-31 (theme scripture)
• These signs are written so that you may believe
  Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that
  by believing you may have life in his name.
• The signs (or miracles) Jesus performed,
  believing in Jesus and who he is and the life
  Jesus gives us are each key themes of the gospel.

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7 Signs (Miracles) of Jesus

• Water into Wine (John 2)
• Healing of the Noblemans Son (John 4)
• Healing of the Invalid (John 5)
• Feeding of the 5,000 (John 6)
• Walking on Water (John 6)
• Healing of the Blind Man (John 9)
• Raising Lazarus from the dead (John 13)

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Believing in Jesus

• For God so loved the world that he gave his one
  and only son that whosoever believes in him shall
  not perish but have eternal life
• John 316
• 17-21 whoever lives by the truth comes into the
  light
• (photo by Jeffrey Beall)

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Life

• Believing in Jesus eternal life (316 173)
• Jesus is the bread of life (635)
• Jesus has the words of eternal life (636)
• Jesus gives us abundant life (1010
• Jesus is the resurrection and the life (1125)
• Jesus is the way, the truth and the life (146)

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John vs. Mat/Mark/Lukefeeding
5,000/walking on waterPassion Week

• Written in 80s/90s
• Jerusalem focus
• Debates teaching about belief life
• Footwashing, prayer and discourse during the Last
  Supper.

• Written in 50s/60s
• Galillean focus
• Parables great ethical sermons
• Birth, geneology, baptism by John trial before
  Caiphas

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(stained glass by Alfred Handel photo by Toby
Hudson)

• 7 Great I am Statements by Jesus

• the bread of life (635)
• the light of the world (812 95)
• the good shepherd (1011,14)
• the resurrection and the life (1125)
• the way, the truth and the life (146)
• the true vine (151)
• before Abraham was, I AM (858)

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Divinity of Christ

• The Word was God (11)
• I and the Father are One (1030)
• He who has seen me has seen the Father (149)
• My Lord and My God! (2028)

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Presenting Jesus to Jews?

• Sermons of Peter and Stephen in Acts 2, 3, 4, 6
  do not mention Jesus is the Son of God
• Letter of James (probably written before 50AD)
  does not mention Jesus is the Son of God
• Acts 2020-26 sensitivity to Jewish feelings
  about Paul

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Woman Caught in Adultery

• the earliest manuscripts do not include John
• 753 811

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• This is the disciple who is bearing witness
  about these things and we know that his testimony
  is true!
• John 2124