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Friday, January 23, 2015
Chronological New Testament Study Day 6
Chronological New Testament Study Day
6
John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54
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John 2:1-25
1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana
in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his
disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the
wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine." 4 "Dear
woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied. "My time has
not yet come." 5 His mother said to the servants,
"Do whatever he tells you." 6 Nearby stood six stone
water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from
twenty to thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to the servants, "Fill
the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim. 8 Then
he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the
banquet." They did so, 9 and the master of the
banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize
where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then
he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, "Everyone
brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests
have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now." 11 This,
the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee. He thus
revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his
mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days. 13 When
it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In
the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others
sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out
of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he
scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16To
those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you
turn my Father's house into a market!" 17 His disciples
remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me." 18Then
the Jews demanded of him, "What miraculous sign can you show us to prove
your authority to do all this?" 19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy
this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." 20The
Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you
are going to raise it in three days?" 21 But the temple
he had spoken of was his body. 22 After he was raised from the
dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture
and the words that Jesus had spoken. 23 Now while he was in
Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was
doing and believed in his name. 24 But Jesus would not entrust
himself to them, for he knew all men. 25 He did not need man's
testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.
1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named
Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.2 He came to Jesus
at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from
God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were
not with him." 3 In reply Jesus declared, "I
tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born
again." 4"How can a man be born when he is old?"
Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's
womb to be born!" 5 Jesus answered, "I tell you
the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and
the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives
birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying,
'You must be born again.' 8 The wind blows wherever it
pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where
it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." 9 "How
can this be?" Nicodemus asked. 10 "You are Israel's
teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these
things? 11 I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and
we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our
testimony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you
do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No
one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven--the Son of
Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so
the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who
believes in him may have eternal life. 16 "For God so
loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not
send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through
him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever
does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the
name of God's one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has
come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their
deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light,
and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But
whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly
that what he has done has been done through God."
22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went out
into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23 Now
John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water,
and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24 (This was
before John was put in prison.) 25 An argument developed
between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of
ceremonial washing. 26 They came to John and said to him,
"Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan--the one
you testified about--well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him." 27 To
this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28 You
yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ but am sent ahead of
him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends
the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the
bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.30 He
must become greater; I must become less. 31 "The one who
comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the
earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above
all. 32 He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one
accepts his testimony. 33 The man who has accepted it has
certified that God is truthful. 34 For the one whom God has
sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. 35 The
Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36 Whoever
believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see
life, for God's wrath remains on him."
1 The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and
baptizing more disciples than John, 2 although in fact it was
not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 When the Lord
learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4 Now
he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in
Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son
Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was
from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 When
a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you
give me a drink?"8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy
food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew
and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do
not associate with Samaritans. ) 10 Jesus answered her, "If
you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would
have asked him and he would have given you living water." 11 "Sir,"
the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where
can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father
Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and
his flocks and herds?" 13 Jesus answered, "Everyone
who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever
drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him
will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 15 The
woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty
and have to keep coming here to draw water." 16 He told
her,"Go, call your husband and come back." 17 "I
have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right
when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had
five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just
said is quite true." 19 "Sir," the woman said,
"I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers
worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must
worship is in Jerusalem." 21 Jesus declared, "Believe
me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this
mountain nor in Jerusalem.22 You Samaritans worship what you do not
know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet
a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in
spirit and in truth." 25 The woman said, "I know
that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will
explain everything to us." 26 Then Jesus declared, "I
who speak to you am he."
27 Just then his disciples returned and were
surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you
want?" or "Why are you talking with her?" 28 Then,
leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 "Come,
see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ ?" 30 They
came out of the town and made their way toward him.31 Meanwhile his
disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something." 32 But
he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing
about." 33 Then his disciples said to each other,
"Could someone have brought him food?" 34 "My
food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me
and to finish his work. 35 Do you not say, 'Four months more
and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They
are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the reaper draws his wages,
even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the
reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying 'One sows and
another reaps' is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have
not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the
benefits of their labor."
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town
believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I
ever did." 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they
urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And
because of his words many more became believers. 42 They said
to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we
have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the
world."
43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 (Now
Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 45 When
he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he
had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there. 46 Once
more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And
there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When
this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and
begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. 48 "Unless
you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you
will never believe." 49 The royal official said,
"Sir, come down before my child dies." 50 Jesus
replied, "You may go. Your son will live." The man took
Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the
way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When
he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, "The
fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour." 53Then the
father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your
son will live." So he and all his household believed. 54 This
was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to
Galilee.
Psalm 68
Psalm 68 (New International Version)
Psalm 68
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. A song.
1 May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him.
2 As smoke is blown away by the wind, may you blow them away; as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.
3 But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful.
4 Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds [a]— his name is the LORD— and rejoice before him.
5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
6 God sets the lonely in families, [b] he leads forth the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
7 When you went out before your people, O God, when you marched through the wasteland, Selah
8 the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
9 You gave abundant showers, O God; you refreshed your weary inheritance.
10 Your people settled in it, and from your bounty, O God, you provided for the poor.
11 The Lord announced the word, and great was the company of those who proclaimed it:
12 "Kings and armies flee in haste; in the camps men divide the plunder.
13 Even while you sleep among the campfires, [c] the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold."
14 When the Almighty [d] scattered the kings in the land, it was like snow fallen on Zalmon.
15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains; rugged are the mountains of Bashan.
16 Why gaze in envy, O rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the LORD himself will dwell forever?
17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.
18 When you ascended on high, you led captives in your train; you received gifts from men, even from [e] the rebellious— that you, [f] O LORD God, might dwell there.
19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Selah
20 Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death.
21 Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.
22 The Lord says, "I will bring them from Bashan; I will bring them from the depths of the sea,
23 that you may plunge your feet in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs have their share."
24 Your procession has come into view, O God, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.
25 In front are the singers, after them the musicians; with them are the maidens playing tambourines.
26 Praise God in the great congregation; praise the LORD in the assembly of Israel.
27 There is the little tribe of Benjamin, leading them, there the great throng of Judah's princes, and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.
28 Summon your power, O God [g] ; show us your strength, O God, as you have done before.
29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring you gifts.
30 Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
31 Envoys will come from Egypt; Cush [h] will submit herself to God.
32 Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth, sing praise to the Lord, Selah
33 to him who rides the ancient skies above, who thunders with mighty voice.
34 Proclaim the power of God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose power is in the skies.
35 You are awesome, O God, in your sanctuary; the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people. Praise be to God!
Psalm 68
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. A song.
1 May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him.
2 As smoke is blown away by the wind, may you blow them away; as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.
3 But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful.
4 Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds [a]— his name is the LORD— and rejoice before him.
5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
6 God sets the lonely in families, [b] he leads forth the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
7 When you went out before your people, O God, when you marched through the wasteland, Selah
8 the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
9 You gave abundant showers, O God; you refreshed your weary inheritance.
10 Your people settled in it, and from your bounty, O God, you provided for the poor.
11 The Lord announced the word, and great was the company of those who proclaimed it:
12 "Kings and armies flee in haste; in the camps men divide the plunder.
13 Even while you sleep among the campfires, [c] the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold."
14 When the Almighty [d] scattered the kings in the land, it was like snow fallen on Zalmon.
15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains; rugged are the mountains of Bashan.
16 Why gaze in envy, O rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the LORD himself will dwell forever?
17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.
18 When you ascended on high, you led captives in your train; you received gifts from men, even from [e] the rebellious— that you, [f] O LORD God, might dwell there.
19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Selah
20 Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death.
21 Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.
22 The Lord says, "I will bring them from Bashan; I will bring them from the depths of the sea,
23 that you may plunge your feet in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs have their share."
24 Your procession has come into view, O God, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.
25 In front are the singers, after them the musicians; with them are the maidens playing tambourines.
26 Praise God in the great congregation; praise the LORD in the assembly of Israel.
27 There is the little tribe of Benjamin, leading them, there the great throng of Judah's princes, and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.
28 Summon your power, O God [g] ; show us your strength, O God, as you have done before.
29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring you gifts.
30 Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
31 Envoys will come from Egypt; Cush [h] will submit herself to God.
32 Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth, sing praise to the Lord, Selah
33 to him who rides the ancient skies above, who thunders with mighty voice.
34 Proclaim the power of God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose power is in the skies.
35 You are awesome, O God, in your sanctuary; the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people. Praise be to God!
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