What Jesus knew – He told His disciples at various times of His coming death and resurrection: (NASB) Luke 18:31-33 “Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, ‘Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things which are written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.32 ‘For […]
Throughout the ministry of Jesus, we are told that His hour had not yet come to reveal Himself as Messiah; His hour had not yet come to be glorified. Then… the hour arrived… and some Greeks, who were worshiping at the feast of Passover in Jerusalem, came wanting to see Jesus; they asked around, […]
When you have a situation in which you have no power to solve or change, what do you do? Followers of Christ, would you agree we should pray first? Jesus was traveling from Judea and came into Galilee. In fact, He went to the town of Cana in Galilee where He had made water into […]
What was the “clincher” for the Samaritan woman to believe Jesus that He was Messiah?John 4:18 gives the answer: Jesus knew of her past five husbands and the man she was living with at the time was not her husband. And that did not stop Jesus from telling her He was the long awaited Messiah. […]
Jesus did not let this “teachable moment” slip by, even though He was weary at the end of the day. John 4:6 The disciples were sent into the nearest town, Sychar, Samaria for food. In the meantime, Jesus had an important conversation with a Samaritan woman. John 4:7-26The woman left her waterpot and went into […]
Have you entered a room or approached others in the middle of their conversation – not knowing what was being talked about and discussed? This happened to Jesus’ disciples. They were in the town of Sychar, buying food for an evening meal. They went back to where they left Jesus, sitting beside a well of […]
Jesus was weary at the end of a day, He sat down beside an old well in Samaria. A woman comes to draw water and Jesus asks for a drink. Then Jesus takes the conversation to a spiritual level about living water. Again, Jesus shifts onto a higher level and gets really personal.NASB John 4:16-20 […]
“For I will pour out water on the thirsty landAnd streams on the dry ground;I will pour out My Spirit on your offspringAnd My blessing on your descendants.” NASB Isaiah 44:3 For our bodies to function properly we need water – liquids are, many times, not beneficial for our bodies like clean water is. Each person […]
Jesus gained in popularity and the religious leaders, the Pharisees, noted that fact.Jesus made a decision, “He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.” John 4:2 Jesus was not looking for a confrontation with the Pharisees, he avoided them by leaving the area and going North into Galilee. Today, there is a lot of unrest […]
John the Baptist understood what it was to give credit to Jesus, the Son of God. John was a popular man at one point in time. Then Jesus came and asked John to baptize Him. John tried to argue his way out of doing that. But Jesus insisted. Then John saw and heard amazing things […]