Douglas Jacoby Podcast

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. 3 They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and striking him on the face. 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 18:1 After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples.  After his prayer, Jesus walks to the Garden of Gethsemane. The p...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. The entire chapter is a prayer. This falls into three parts: Prayer for himself (vv.1-5). Prayer for his disciples (vv.6-19). Prayer for the world -- future believers (vv.20-26). The order is crucial: Jesus' training of his disciples would have been a failure had he not given top priority to his own spirituality. Getting the message ou...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Jesus has been preparing his apostles for the persecution to come (15:18 into chapter 16). Persecuting Christians will come to be seen as service to God (v.2). John's gospel was penned in a time when Jewish-Christian relations were suffering significant deterioration. Eviction from the synagogues is probably happening to many readers o...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Chapter 15 tells us about our relationship to Jesus (vv.1-17), using three different analogies. 15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunesto make it bear more fruit. 3 You have already been cleansedby the word that I have spoken...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believein God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 13:1 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper 3 Jesus, knowing that the Fat...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 27 Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, deliver me from this hour? But for this cause I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name. Then there came a voice from heaven:  I have glorified it, and will glorify it again. 29 Then the people that stood by and heard said, It thundered!  Others said an angel spoke...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. The clock is ticking. There is a bounty on Jesus' head, and in less than a week he will be taking the Last Supper with his disciples. Here we find him at another meal, this time in Bethany. A dinner is held in Jesus' honor in the home of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. As in Luke 10:38-42, Martha is working, while Mary takes advantage of so...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Scripture for memory  (Prov 22:17-18 -- see also 3:3; 7:3, on internalizing God's word) 1:14 -- From the prologue: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. NKJV.  Importance: Concise statement of the incarnation. 2:17 -- Observation...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 11:1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 10:1 “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has bro...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 9:1 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  The man was physically blind (v.1ff). This blindness was not temporary, but congenital. The O.T. does say that the sins of the parents can be "visited" on the children (Exodus 20:5), b...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”  " Again Jesus spoke" ties in to 7:38.  Remember that 7:53-8:11 is not in the original; it interrupts the flow. Thus the statement is spoken in the context of the Feast of Tabernacles. In...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. This a well-known passage, even though it is not in the original manuscripts of John's gospel. This pericope is not written in the style of John, nor is it original to John. It is missing from the earliest Greek manuscripts of John. Of course this was the original language of the gospel, and evidence here should be weighed most heavily...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering such things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent temple police to arrest him. The dispatch of the Temple Police to arrest Jesus would have spoken clearly to the early Christians, as to disciples today in countries where it is not easy or safe to be a disciple. For they were used...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 7:1 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. 2 Now the Jewish festival of Booths was near. 3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing; 4 for no one who wants to be...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 6:37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away; 38 for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. 4...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 6:1 After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. 3 Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. John 6 takes place after John 5, but the writer does not tell us whether t...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 19 Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Fatherdoes, the Son does likewise. 20 The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished. 21 Indeed,...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 43 When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee 44 (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country). 45 When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival. Leaving t...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 25 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.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.” 27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 4:1 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John” 2 —although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized— 3 he left Judea and started back to Galilee. 4 But he had to go through Samaria.  Jesus is concerned about his increasing notoriety. Remember, he is movin...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Again (from yesterday), the context of John 3:16 is the bronze serpent incident in Numbers 21. Notice that this is  not  a passage about how to become a Christian, but about God´s initiative to save s...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 3:1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.”  The nocturnal visit of Nicodemus is well known (v.1ff). Nicodemus was a Pharisee, the...