Tag: John

  • John 11:45-12:11

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    Today’s Reading is John 11:45-12:11. I preached about it last March. Please refer to my sermon.

  • John 11:1-44

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    Today’s Reading is John 11:1-44. The shortest verse in many English language Bibles is about Jesus mourning the death of his friend Lazarus: “Jesus wept.” Wikipedia knows significance has been attributed to this phrase for a number of reasons, including the following: * Weeping demonstrates that Christ was indeed true man, with real bodily functions…

  • John 7:25-52

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    Today’s Reading is John 7:25-52. The Johannine community produced this gospel in the 90s in Ephesus. That is four generations and one continent away from where it iwas supposed to be set. Now they didn’t know to much about who Pharisees were or what Jesus’ place in Judaism was. Hear Ed Parish Sanders about how…

  • John 6:60-7:24

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    Today’s Reading is John 6:60-7:24. The biggest question in John’s congregation remains: Who is Christ? He has that discussion in novel format by Jesus talking with his disciples. And it is a tough one: Many of his followers heard this and said, “This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?” Looking at Christ’s…

  • John 6:1-59

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    Yesterday‘s and today‘s Reading were John 6:1-59. The Gospel of John is an interpretation of the older synoptic gospel material. The first complex of the feeding the multitude episode and Jesus walking on water stems from Mark 6:30-52. In that gospel it is just two episodes that take place in the region of Capernaum where…