The 10 Week Bible Study Podcast

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Day 1: John 9:1-12 Stories: The man born blind healed Curiosities: 1) Why did Jesus’ disciples ask if the blind man sinned or his parents? Did Jesus rebuke them for that thinking? 2) Why did Jesus need the spit mud to heal him? Why the washing in the pool? This harkens back to Naaman’s healing. 3) This man stands out more than any other healing in John because he was born blind. The prevailing the...

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Day 5: John 8:31-59 Stories: Before Abraham Was, I Am Curiosities: 1) Jesus’ words to them, that they are the children of their father the devil, seems extremely harsh. 2) Why would they accuse Jesus of being demon-possessed? Why a Samaritan? 3) “I Am” is the very distinct name for God that all these Pharisees understood very well. They knew by Jesus saying this He was claiming to be God and it en...

Day 4: John 8:12-30 Stories: Light of the World Curiosities: 1) Here again we return to discussions about Jesus’ testimony. What was wrong with Jesus being His own witness? 2) Why could Jesus testify on His own behalf and still be valid? 3) Why does Jesus say He has much to say in judgment of them, yet He refrains? Support the show

Day 3: John 7:53-8:11 Stories: Woman Caught in Adultery Curiosities: 1) This passage does not exist in the earliest manuscripts available to us of the book of John. This doesn’t mean the story is not true or didn’t happen. It could have been added later by whomever edited the book of John (possibly done by the elders of Ephesus) by the will of John himself,  or because it was a story John had spok...

Day 2: John 7:25-52 Stories: Festival Continued Curiosities: 1) When Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from – a statement they will directly contradict almost immediately 2) Jesus tells them that He is from God, but that they do not know Him, for which they tried to arrest Him. 3) Messiah / Prophet debate – Deuteronomy 18:14-22 Paradoxes: They said the Messiah would come from Bethlehem,...

Day 1: John 7:1-24 Stories: Festival of Tabernacles Curiosities: 1) “After this” – is John implying a large passage of time? What does he mean by “after this?” It looks like about 6 months have passed, but why not just say this? 2) Jesus’ Brothers – who is this referring to? 3) What does the statement “my time is not yet here” mean? What is Jesus actually referring to? 4) Judge correctly instead o...

Day 5: John 6:25-70 Stories: The Bread of Life Curiosities: 1) Why do they ask Jesus for a sign and why did they mention the Israelites manna? 2) Why does Jesus then liken Himself to the manna and call Himself the “bread of life?” 3) What made the people willing to call Jesus “the Prophet” but when He called Himself the “bread of life” they discounted Him because they knew Him growing up? 4) Why i...

Day 4: John 6:1-24 Stories: Feeding the 5,000 & Walking on Water Curiosities: 1) Why did Jesus test Phillip? 2) Why would Andrew suggest using the boy’s loaves and fish to feed so many people? 3) Why did the people who witnessed this miracle think Jesus was “the Prophet”? Why not the messiah? 4) Why did Jesus walk on the water? What was the point of this? 5) Why did the boat immediately reach...

Day 3: John 5:31-47 Stories: Jesus’ Testimony Curiosities: 1) Why are Jesus and the Jewish leaders so concerned about Jesus’ testimony (teaching)? 2) Why doesn’t Jesus accept glory from human beings? Isn’t that what we have been taught God desires? 3) How does Moses condemn the Jewish Leaders? Paradoxes: Jesus says that if He testifies about Himself, it is not true, yet elsewhere He says that even...

Day 2: John 5:16-30 Stories: The Work of the Father Curiosities: 1) Why did they want to kill Jesus for claiming to be equal with God? 2) Why doesn’t Jesus do what He wants? Why does He only do what He sees the Father doing? Isn’t He God too? 3) Jesus quotes Daniel 12:2 about some being resurrected to eternal life and some to shame Paradoxes: “the Father judges no one, but entrusts all judgment to...

Day 1: John 5:1-15 Stories: Healing of the lame man Curiosities: 1) Why does John give us such detail about the gate and the area surrounding the pool? 2) Why would Jesus ask the man if he wants to get well? 3) Why did Jesus tell the man to pick up his mat on a Sabbath? Why not leave it there? This is the thing that offended the Pharisees about the healing. Paradoxes: Why would Jesus ask the man H...

Day 5: John 4:43-54 Stories: Royal Official’s Son Curiosities: Why does John mention the phrase about a prophet not being accepted in his own country? In the synoptic gospels, that statement fits when the Jewish people reject Jesus’ teaching, but it seems out of place here. Why does Jesus respond to a father’s genuine plea for his son’s life by insinuating that everyone around only wanted to see s...