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PHall | July 27, 2013
People eat free food miraculously provided (6:8-11), and in the morning discover the source (Jesus) is gone (6:24). So they travel across the sea for more free food (6:26). Isn’t it amazing how hard people will work for free food? Reminds me of all the hours spent on the side of the road begging. Working […]
PHall | July 27, 2013
John’s gospel often tells stories in two’s. Reading John 6, I wondered why is the sign of walking on water right in the middle of the story of feeding the 5000 and the Sermon on the Manna? Chronology cannot be the only answer for many chronological details are left out. So…the beginning of John 6 […]
PHall | July 20, 2013
Wedding – Cana; Private; Civil Celebration; Mother; Sign;; Creation; Capernaum with family and friends Temple Cleansing – Jerusalem; Public Celebration; Religious; Father; No Sign; Destruction; Jerusalem but not entrusting Himself to others.
PHall | July 20, 2013
2nd Sign – Cana (Galilee); Public (v.48 is plural); Royalty; Father; Young boy healed; Miracle for another; Miracle Given after Asking; Father knew who Jesus was; Miracle Occurs Elsewhere; Others are Servants; Whole House Believed 3rd Sign – Jerusalem (Judea); Private; Commoner; “No Man”; Older man healed; Miracle for self; Miracle Given without Asking; Lam […]
PHall | July 13, 2013
Commentaries and translations conclude that “spirit” in John 4:23-24 is not the Holy Spirit, but rather spirit as in spiritually. My question is, why shouldn’t it be Holy “Spirit?” 1. That there is no definite article before pneuma does not prove anything since there is no consistency is that being a rule. There is no […]
PHall | July 11, 2013
John 4:26 (NASB) – Jesus *said to her, “I who speak to you am [He.”] John 4:26 (HCSB) – “I am (He),” Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.” John 4:26 (ESV2011) Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” Anyone familiar with the gospel of John is familiar with the […]
PHall | July 11, 2013
Born of water and Spirit, Drinking living water, Having eternal life, Worshiping in spirit (or Spirit) and truth. Cannot worship in spirit and truth without having eternal life. Cannot have eternal life without drinking living water. Cannot drink living water without being born of water and Spirit.
PHall | July 11, 2013
PHall | June 22, 2013
“Because He Existed Before Me” – That statement of John the Baptist is exquisitely taught in the structure of John 1. Jesus is shown existing: 1) in creation (1:1-13); 2) in the Law of Moses by the language of tabernacling and what the Tabernacle represented in the presence of God (1:14-18); in the Prophets by […]
PHall | June 13, 2013
This is who we are or should be: Servants do not ask to be placated and pleased, they only ask to serve. Disciples do not pretend to judge and cajole, they are content to learn and imitate their Teacher. Christians are not trying to become good enough, better than others, or besting the arguments of […]