Study 2024-2025: The Gospel of John

Gospel of John 

Overview
- Author:  The Apostle John, son of Zebedee
- What: Apostle John’s written account of Jesus. John was Jewish and believed in the Messiah’s coming, and wrote boldly about Jesus being the Son of God.
-When: 89-95 AD
-Where: Probably Ephesus
-Why: Historicity, and is also the fourth gospel. Old Testament law stated that a claim must be backed by 2 or 3 witnesses, and we have the 4 gospels as eye-wtiness accounts and eye-witness testimony (Luke’s Gospel).

Jesus Deity Claims/ Jesus OT ← → NT:
1:49-51 = Son of Man
3:3-8 = Jesus speaks from knowing how the Kingdom of Heaven is
3:13-15 = Son of Man
4:25-26 = Jesus claims to be Messiah, who according to the OT is God
4:38 = who sends people besides God?
4:50 = Jesus grants life to the woman’s son
5:17 = Jesus claiming unity with the Father, only God alone can work constantly (thus why He is Lord of the Sabbath)
5:19-47 = the Son’s Unity with the Father
6:27 = Son of Man
6:33-40 = Jesus stating He is from Heaven (and who but God alone can say that)
6:44 = Jesus states He will raise people up (attribute of God)
6:53-58 = Son of Man, Living Bread, unity with the Father
6:62 = Son of Man
7:28-29 = unity with the Father
8:14 = matches 7:27, Jesus = Messiah = God
8:23-24 = Jesus stating He is from heaven and not of the world
8:28-29 = Son of Man, unity with the Father
8:36 = who but God can set people free from their sins? Jesus is saying He can
8:39-40 = Jesus saying He interacted with Abraham
8:42 = unity with the Father
8:47 = Jesus is telling them that they cannot hear Him, and Jesus says that anyone who can hear Him hears God
8:51 = Jesus saying He has the words of Life (He is the Word)
8:54 = unity with the Father… Father glorifies the Son!!!
8:56 = Jesus again stating that He interacted with Abraham
8:58 = Jesus using the title “I AM”, stating that He is the I AM of Exodus 3:14 and that before Abraham was born, Jesus existed, also see 7:24
9:35-37 = Son of Man
9:39-41 = Jesus’ purpose to judge the world
10:15 = unity with the Father
10:17-18 = unity with the Father, the ability to lay His life down and with His own authority pick it up again
10:28-30 = who but God gives eternal life? Jesus stating this
10:36-38 = unity with the Father
11:4 = glory of the Father and Son (see below)
11:40 = Jesus states she will see God’s glory
12:23 = Son of Man
12:45 = Jesus says whoever looks at Him looks at God
13:19-20 = I AM, unity with the Father
13:31-32 = Son of Man glorified by Father
14:1 = believe in Jesus and God because they are the same
14:6-7 = Jesus is Life, unity with Father
14:9-14 = Jesus saying Philip is looking at Father
14:18 = Deuteronomy 31:6
14:15-31 = unity with Holy Spirit and Father
15:23-24 = unity with Father
15:26-16:15 = Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit
16:23-24= prayers granted through Jesus, unity with Father
16:25-28 = unity with Father
Chapter 17 = Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit
20:17 = unity with Father
20:26-29 = Jesus defeats death, accepts Thomas calling Him Lord and God and confirms this with His response
21:22-23 = Jesus stating He can make a disciple stay alive

The Trinity Shown:
1:1 = Jesus with God at the beginning
1:14 = Son and Father
1:18 = Son and Father
1:33-34 = Father Son and Holy Spirit
2:16 = Jesus says God is His Father
3:5-8 = Jesus, Father Holy Spirit
3:34-36 = Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit
4:23-24 = Jesus speaking of the Father and Spirit
5:17-18 = Jesus unity with Father
5:19-47 = unity with Father
6:1-15 = mirrors Israelites in the wilderness in Exodus 16
6:27 = Son of Man, Jesus distinguishes the Father’s role
6:32-40 = unity with Father
6:44 = unity with Father
6:45-46 = unity with Father
6:62-63 = Son of Man and Holy Spirit
6:65 = unity with Father
7:39 = Jesus and Holy Spirit
8:16 = unity with Father
8:18-19 = unity with Father
8:26 = unity with Father
8:28-29 = Son of Man, God sending the Son
8:36-38 = unity with Father
8:42 = unity with Father
8:49-50 = unity with Father
8:54 = unity with Father
8:56  = Genesis 18
8:58 = Father, Son and Holy Spirit, also see 7:24
10:15 = unity with Father
10:17-18 = unity with Father
10:25 = unity with Father
10:28-30 = unity with Father
10:32 = unity with Father
10:36-38 = unity with Father
11:4 = God’s glory so the Son can be glorified
11:41 = unity with Father
12:26-28 = unity with Father
12:45 = Jesus unity with God
12:49-50 = unity with Father
13:3 = unity with Father
13:31-32 = Son of Man to be glorified by God
14:2 = unity with Father
14:6-7 = unity with Father
14:9-14 = unity with Father
14:15-21 = Father, Son and Holy Spirit
14:23-31 = Father, Son and Holy Spirit
15:1 = unity with Father
15:8 = unity with Father
15:10 = unity with Father
15:15 = unity with Father
15:23-24 = unity with Father
15:26 = Father, Son, Holy Spirit (the Advocate is the Holy Spirit, and Jesus is talking to the disciples in the present, “when the Advocate comes”... Jesus is already with them and therefore Jesus cannot be the Holy Spirit, they are different persons. The Spirit of truth is the also Holy Spirit, who goes out from the Father… so Jesus and the Holy Spirit are two distinct persons, and if the Holy Spirit goes out from , the word from infers that the Holy Spirit also IS NOT the Father, but is a distinct person from both Jesus and Father. But here you can see the roles of each here [1.Father provides His Son for the dealing with of sin and death, and Holy Spirit for all believers to be empowered against sin and the world’s temptations ]   [2. Jesus is the begotten Son of the Father who payed the debt for each and every sin ever to have been committed spoke, in thought or in action, and fulfills the role of the everlasting King and High Priest we all need ]    [ 3. Holy Spirit is now with us on this earth, in place of Jesus being physically with us, sent to us (the church) by Jesus from the Father who is our Advocate, who (if we listen) guides us in all truth, and lives within believers through the baptism of THE HOLY SPIRIT (NOT WATER BAPTISM) gives us God’s power to testify about Jesus and to triumph over sin and temptations because we can’t do it on our own ]
16:15 = Father, Son and Holy Spirit
16:23-24 = unity with Father
16:25-28 = unity with Father
16:32 = unity with Father
Chapter 17 = Father, Son, Holy Spirit
20:17 = unity with God
20:21-23 = Father, Son, Holy Spirit
20:30-31 = Jesus, Messiah and Son of God

Key Events:
1:1-18, 2:12, 3:34, 6:14-15, 7:24, 8:34

Major (not all) Prophecies Fulfilled of the Messiah(Jesus):
1:23 = Isaiah 40:3
1:45-46 = Isaiah 11:1
1:51 = Genesis 28:12
2:16-17 = Psalm 69:9
3:14-18 = Numbers 24:17
4:26 = Exodus 3:14
6:45 = Isaiah 54:13
7:37 = Leviticus 23:36-37
8:12 = Isaiah 49:6
10:11 = Psalm 23:11
10:30 = Zechariah 12:10
11:47-52 = Genesis 49:10
11:53 = Psalm 31:13
12:13-15 = Psalm 118:25-26 + Zechariah 9:9
13:18 = Psalm 41:9
15:25 = Psalm 35:19 + Psalm 69:4
17:3 = Genesis 49:10
17:24 = Genesis 1:1
18:4-6 = Psalm 40:14
18:38 = Isaiah 53:9
19:6 = Psalm 12-13
19:24 = Psalm 22:18
19:28 = Psalm 22:15
19:29 = Psalm 69:21
19:30 = Psalm 22:31
19:31-36 = Exodus 12:46
19:34 = Isaiah 48:21
19:34-37 = Psalm 22:16

Culture/Time:
1:19-20, 4:7-9, 12:41

Relevant History + Science:



Notes

• 7:27 states, “But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.” AND…. IN 8:14 Jesus says, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.” mind-blown… Jesus responds to them in this manner… This is also shown in 9:29 when the Pharisees are talking to the man born blind whom Jesus healed. 

• 8:1-11 look into what Jesus could have written… they brought up the Law of Moses, so could Jesus writing on the ground symbolize God writing the commandments on the tablets?
• 8:39 to Genesis 18… Abraham was a Christian because he had faith in Jesus.
• The really cool thing about John 8:58 is that it goes deeper than the surface, of course, as scripture usually does. In 7:24, Jesus says, “Stop judging by mere appearances and instead judge correctly.” Now, the context of this verses was regarding Jesus healing a man on the Sabbath. But here in John 8:58, the same verses can be applied because although at this time during Jesus’ life on earth, He was maybe 33 years old, but God’s name, “I AM” given to Moses in Exodus 3:14, also the LORD, Yahweh, Yehova, the name literally means, “the existing One”... and Jesus is telling the Jews basically telling the Jews here, “Before Abraham was born, I EXISTED.”
• 11:16… what?
• 11:44 take off the grave clothes and let him go… take the grave clothes off! Take them all off and live! Would Lazarus keep some of the grave clothes on and some take off? No. Lazarus would take off all of the grave clothes and put new clothes on, as he is not dead. We are not called to death but to life, and sometimes the grave clothes feel a little more comfortable. Comfort is easy. It’s easy to stay in sin, it’s easy to look back when we should be moving forward. It’s easy to keep some of those grave clothes on when we shouldnt. Jesus says to take off the grave clothes and embrace and put on the clothes He Himself has given us, we are clothed in life with Him, and sometimes we willingly keep our grave clothes on. Why.
• 17:3 use of 3rd person language
• 20:21-23 incredibly interesting that only after Jesus breathes on the disciples to receive the Holy Spirit He says if they forgive anyone’s sins they are forgiven, but if they do not forgive the sins they are not forgiven… possibly pointing to other passages such as : Matthew 18:21-35