Category: John’s Gospel

The gospel of John has historically been a book that many Christians turn to for strength, encouragement and assurance during difficult seasons.

It’s Resurrection Sunday! Easter morning! The tomb is empty! The stone has been rolled away! Death has been conquered! Satan has been defeated! The presence, power and penalty of Sin have been eradicated!

In the opening verses of John 18 the drama of the arrest, trial and murder of Jesus begins to unfold. Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane when Judas the betrayer leads a small army into the garden to arrest Jesus.

In these two stories we see that Jesus is powerful over the forces of nature and he is the light of the world who gives sight to those who have been living in spiritual darkness.

In our two passages today, Jesus heals a lame man and then he feeds a hungry crowd. Both of these stories are filled with the awe and the wonder of the power of Jesus over our pain, our suffering, our fears, our deepest longings and our unsatisfied hungers.

It seems providential to me that we would be diving into a series on the miracles of Jesus in the gospel of John during this season that we find ourselves in here in America.