Tag: christianity
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Long Distance Healing
John 4:43-54, CEB After two days Jesus left for Galilee. ( Jesus himself had testified that prophets have no honor in their own country.) When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem during the festival, for they also had been at the…
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A Most Profound Conversation – The Results
John 4:39-42, CEB Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus because of the woman’s word when she testified, “He told me everything I’ve ever done.” So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. Many more believed because of his word, and they…
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Unseen Water and Food You Know Nothing About
John 4:31-38, CEB In the meantime the disciples spoke to Jesus, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” Jesus said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” The disciples asked each other, “Has someone brought him food?” Jesus said to them, “I am fed by doing the will of the one who sent me…
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A Most Profound Conversation Interrupted
John 4:25-30, CEB The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.” Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with…
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A Most Profound Conversation – Part 4
John 4:25-26, CEB The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming—the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus told her, “I am the Messiah!” We’ve been spending a lot of time unpacking this conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well. This is…
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Just on the Way to…hey wait!
John 4:1-4 Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was making more disciples and baptizing more than John (although Jesus’ disciples were baptizing, not Jesus himself). Therefore, he left Judea and went back to Galilee. Jesus had to go through Samaria. This passage seems to be nothing more than a transition. To…
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What We Are Doing isn’t Doing What We Think It Is
John 3:16-21, CEB God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life. God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him isn’t judged;…
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Nicodemus Part 2 (and of Course, John 3:16)
John 3:10-17 “Jesus answered, “You are a teacher of Israel and you don’t know these things? I assure you that we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you don’t receive our testimony. If I have told you about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe…
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Nicodemus Part 1
John 3:1-10 There was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a Jewish leader. He came to Jesus at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could do these miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered, “I assure you,…
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