John 7:1-15; 37-52
John 8:12-20; 9:1-7
John 7
Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) – Leviticus 23:39-43; Deuteronomy 16:13-17
Mark 3:21-22. Family thought Jesus had “lost his senses”.
7:15. Luke 2:46-47 Teachers were amazed at understanding of 12 year-old Jesus.
John 7:37. John 6:35b “He who believes in me will never [no not] thirst.”
7:39. Isaiah 32:15; 44:3; Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26-27, 39:29; Joel 2:28-29
7:40. THE prophet – Deuteronomy 18:15 “YHWH your God will raise you up a prophet … you shall listen to him.”
John 7:52. Jonah and possibly others came from Galilee.
John 7:53-8:11. Not contained in the earliest and best Greek manuscripts (MSS)
Some MSS place it after Luke 21:38.
John 8:12
Light – phos (photon)
2 Peter 1:19. And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.
Morning star – phosphorus (light-bearer)
Follows = accompany (as a disciple)
“I am” – ego eimi, pronoun ego denotes “I” is emphatic; occurs in all “I am” statements
Messianic prophecies related to light
Luke 2:28-32. A light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel
Isaiah 9:1-2. The people who walk in darkness will see a great light; those who live in a dark land, the light will shine on them.
Isaiah 42:1, 6-7. I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations, to open blind eyes
Correspondence between “light” and “sight” and “darkness” and “blindness”
Isaiah 49:6. I will also make You a light of the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth
John 8:12-20
John 9:1-7
Six events recorded in the Gospels that the Pharisees considered that Jesus was breaking the Sabbath:
- Picking grain
- Healing man with a withered hand
- Healing woman who was bent over
- Healing man with dropsy [swollen limbs]
- Healing crippled man at the Pool of Bethesda
- Healing man who was born blind
9:7
Pool of Siloam, south of the Temple, downhill, near convergence of Kidron and Hinnom valleys; about ¼ mile
“I am the Light of the World”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ― C.S. Lewis
Jesus is not only the source of our light, but through him we “see” everything else.
John 1:18. Jesus explains the Father
John 14:9. He who has seen me has seen the Father.
Isaiah 49:6b. “I will also make You a light of the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
