John Chapter 5
Verse 1 begins..."After these things".
If we look back at Chapter 4, we know that Jesus had traveled from Judea (where He celebrated Passover in Jerusalem) back to Galilee (where He healed the Royal Official's son as the SECOND sign performed)...but had stopped through the area of SAMARIA in between .......where He ministed "living water" to the woman at the well, and she had brought the people in the city out to Him and He stayed there two days. Many in Samaria "believed in Him". From there He went on to Galilee.
"After these things", ....there was a "feast of the Jews", and Jesus went UP to Jerusalem (now He is going back up - do you have your maps in print to look at?)While in Jerusalem, Jesus chose a man from the multitudes of sick, blind, lame, and withered, and asked him a question: "Do you wish to get well?"
How long had this man been ill?
How did he answer the Lord's question?
What did Jesus say to this man?
Immediately, the man became WELL, and picked up his pallet, and began to walk.
The Jewish leaders asked about the man who healed him, but the man did not know because Jesus had slipped away through the crowd and was nowhere to be found! Afterward, however, Jesus found the healed man in the temple.
What did Jesus say to him? (vs.14)
What do you think about that verse? Comment on what you believe it means.
Do you think it is possible for this man to never commit a sin again?
If not, what could this mean?
Can you support your answer with other Scripture?
The man told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
The answer Jesus gives to the Religious leaders of the Jews is His Introduction into telling them that He is God!
First, He will tell them that His diety is shown in the works that He does.
JESUS' EQUALITY WITH GOD:
What does vs. 18 tell us the Jews wanted to do to Him because of this statement He had made?
By calling God his own Father, what did they believe He was saying?
Jesus takes this opportunity to tell them more in regard to His Diety. Write out what He tells the Jews in each of these verses:
(this greater work of raising the dead will be seen in John Chapter 11 when Jesus will call Lazarus from the tomb after he has been dead for four days)
He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father.
John 5:24 - Jesus said "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life."
What kind of "giving life" to the "dead" does this statement represent?
Have you believed?
If so, will you face judgment?
Are you dead in your sins any longer?
What have you passed into?
Colossians 2:13,14 - "And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
Jesus continues talking with the Jews.What does He say in these verses?
Why did God give Jesus the authority to execute judgment?
Think about this! We have seen the term "the Son of God" over and over, but what is He that gives Him the authority to judge "men"? He is the "Son of Man".....let's meditate on that..............only a "man" could judge another man, yet only "God" could be without "sin".....so Jesus truly is :
THE SON OF GOD
and
THE SON OF MAN
Let's review His birth. See Luke Chapter 1 & 2. Simply READ through these two chapters. You will see the birth and calling of John the Baptist and then the prophecy to Mary that she would have the Christ child, the Messiah, the angel appearing to Joseph to help him understand she was not pregnant by another man...she truly was a virgin...
Immediately after His water baptism from John the Baptist, Jesus was led by the Spirit to the wilderness to be tempted by Satan for 40 days and 40 nights. He grew hungry and weak...it was truly a temptation He endured..... yet He resisted the temptation to listen to the enemy and sin. Instead, He stood on the very words of God and said each time to the enemy, "IT IS WRITTEN........."
Philippians 2:6-8 "....although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped (held on to), but emptied (laid aside His priviledges) Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross...."
Hebrews 4:15 "...For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has BEEN TEMPTED IN ALL THINGS as we are, yet without sin."
As important as it is to realize He has always been and always will be God, it is also important to see that He became the God/Man for us, to be the mediator of the New Covenant so that we could be reconciled to God! This is why He has been given all judgment. He has been where we are at!
Back to John 5:
As Jesus continued His discourse with the Jews, what else did he say?
On the back side of the cross (those who died before Jesus died and resurrected)...they were saved by looking "in faith" to the COMING Messiah, and by keeping the good deeds that were given in the Law of Moses...the temple worship, the feast, the ceremonial washings.....all things that were pictures of the NEW COVENANT that would come...these Old Testament believers (Jews and any Gentiles who served the Jew's God by becoming converted to the Jewish faith) who looked to the Promises of God and BELIEVED were saved through their FAITH..those will come out of their tombs into a resurrection of LIFE..
What about those who committed the evil deeds in those days?
Will they be resurrected also?
What will they face?
Why is the Judgment of Jesus a "Just" judgment?
Jesus is not alone in His testimony of Himself. He has God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.
What 'man' is spoken about as 'a witness' of Him? vs.33-36
Jesus doesn't need 'man' to testify, but why does He say this to these Jews? Vs.34 -
They were willing to rejoice in John's testimony for awhile.
Lastly, Jesus speaks to the Jews about the witness of the Father .
What does He say they have not heard?
What does He say they have not seen?
What do they not have abiding in them?
What is the evidence of this? vs. 38 -
Where do they (the Jews) search for eternal life?
This is the OLD TESTAMENT Scriptures...
Yet they are unwilling to come to Him to have eternal life. He tells them He knows they do not have the love of God in them.
What is the stumbling block of their unbelief? vs. 44 -
Has another person, teacher, doctrine, tradition, church affiliation....ever been a stumbling block to you?
Jesus will not be the One to accuse the Jews that have not believed in Him before the Father.
"For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe His writings, how will you believe My words?"................Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy - The Law ......
If Moses wrote of Jesus, then we see Him foreshadowed throughout the law, the ceremonies, the feasts, the temple, everything!
We saw one example when Jesus told Nicodemus in John Chapter 3, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the son of Man must be lifted up........"We must believe the entire Bible. It is God's written account of HIStory.....From Genesis to Revelation....Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega; The beginning and the end.
JOHN wrote this Gospel that we might see the SIGNS and BELIEVE that Jesus is: THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD,and that believing.....we might have Life in His Name.
This is a CRITICAL study. Jesus will tell us in John, Chapter 8 that if we do not believe that He is GOD, we will die in our sins.
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