John 7;37 37.  On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. Spiritual thirst (for righteousness) is a gift of God.  By nature we seek fame, praise, and honor for ourselves.  It is not in our...

(Correction:  In yesterdays verse of the Day, I wrote that “David rode Solomon’s donkey…” I got that ‘bassackwards’  as they say, sorry.) John 7;31-36 31. Yet many of the people believed in him; they said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man?”32.  The Pharisees heard the crowd thus muttering about...

John 7;30 30.  So they sought to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come. When Jesus speaks of “My hour”, or, as in today’s reading when John says, “his hour had not yet come”, the phrase refers to not 60 minutes of time, but...

John 7;28&29 28.  So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from?  But I have not come of my own accord; he who sent me is true, and him you do not know.29.  I know him, for I have come from...

John 7;25-27 25.  Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?26.  And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him!  Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?27.  Yet we know where this...

If my words today have tempted you to doubt your salvation, if you think you are just a hopeless, evil person, please contact me personally.  This is not what I, or more importantly, what God now wants you to think about yourself, no matter what you have ever done....

John 7;21-24 21.  Jesus answered them, “I did one deed, and you all marvel at it.22.  Moses gave you circumcision (not that it was from Moses, but the fathers), and you circumcise a man upon the sabbath.23.  If on the sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses...

John 7;19-24 19.  Did not Moses give law?  Yet none of you keeps the law.  Why do you seek to kill me?”20.  The people answered, “You have a demon!  Who is seeking to kill you?”   When I ask a person, “Do you have a church?”Those who do not go to church...

John 7;14-18 14.  About the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the temple and taught.15.  The Jews marveled at it, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”16.  So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me;17.  if...

John 7;10-13 10. But after his brethren has gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.11.  The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?”12.  And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He...

John 7;1-9 1.  After this Jesus went about in Galilee; he would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.2. Now the Jews’ feast of the Tabernacles was at hand.3.  So his brethren said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples may see...

John 6;70&71 70.  Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”71.  He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was to betray him. On Easter evening, Jesus said to his disciples, “As the Father has sent...

John 6;64-69 64.  But there are some of you that do not believe.”   For Jesus knew from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was that should betray him.65.  And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless...

John 6;60-63 60.  Many of his disciples, when they heard it (that Jesus said he was the bread of life, come down from heaven, and who must be eaten, to have eternal life) said, “This is a hard saying; who can receive it?” Note:  Children have no trouble believing illogical, wonderful, and miraculous things.  It...

John 6;53-59 53.  So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;54.  he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him...

John 6;48-52 48.  I am the bread of life.49.  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.50.  This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die.51.  I am the living bread which came down from heaven;  if any...

John 6;41-47 41.  The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.”42.  They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?  How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”43.  Jesus answered them,...

John 6;36-40 36.  But I said to you that you have seen me and yet you do not believe.37.  All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out.38.  For I have come down from heaven, not to do my...

John 6;34&35 34.  They said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.” 35.  Jesus said to the , “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. These faithless blind men are looking around for more earthly loaves of bread, like...

John 6; 30-33 30.  So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see, and believe you?31.  Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread to eat.’”32.  Jesus said to them, “Trult, truly, I say to you, it...

John 6;28&29 28.  Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”29.  Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” This is the most wonderful question, “What must we do, to be doing the works of...

John 6; 26&27 26.  Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.27.  Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of...

John 6;22-25 22.  On the next day the people who remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.23.  However, boats from Tiberi-as came...

John 6;16-21 16.  When Evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,17.  got into a boat, and started across the sea to Caperna-um.  It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.18.  The sea rose because a strong wind was blowing.19.  When they had rowed about three or...

John 6;14&15 14.  When the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!”15.  Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him their king, Jesus withdrew again to the hills...

John 6;8-13 8.  One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,9.  “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are they among so many?”10.  Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.”  Now there was much grass in the place; so the men...

John 6;5-7 5.  Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a multitude was coming to him, Jesus said to Philip, “How are we to buy bread, so that these prople may eat?”6.  This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.7.  Philip answered him, “Two...

John 6;1-4 1.  After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberius-as.2.  And a multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were diseased.3.  When Jesus went up into the hills, and there sat down with...

John 5;44-47 44.  How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes only from God?45.  Do not think that I shall accuse you, it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.46.  If you believed Moses, you would have...

John 5; 41-44 41.  I do not receive glory from men.42.  But I know that you have not the love of God within you.43.  I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me;  if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.44.  How can you...

John 5;39&40 39.  You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;40.  yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. Holy scriptures, (the word of God) are given to us, in order that we come to...