Comforting Presence
They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your...
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Dieuner Joseph
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Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus Part II
“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” After she had said this,...
Dieuner Joseph
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Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus
On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,...
Dieuner Joseph
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The Death of Lazarus
Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary, and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now...
Dieuner Joseph
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Conflict Over Jesus’ Claim Part II
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’? If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God...
Dieuner Joseph
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Conflict Over Jesus’ Claim
Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. The...
Dieuner Joseph
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The Good Shepherd and His Sheep
“Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a...
Dieuner Joseph
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Spiritual Blindness
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” “Who is he, sir?” the man...
Dieuner Joseph
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The Pharisees Investigate the Healing Part II
A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a...
Dieuner Joseph
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The Pharisees Investigate the Healing Part 1
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a...
Dieuner Joseph
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Jesus’ Claims About Himself
The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?” “I am not possessed by a demon,” said...
Dieuner Joseph
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Dispute Over Whose children Jesus’ opponents are
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and...
Dieuner Joseph
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Dispute Over Who Jesus Is
Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”...
Dieuner Joseph
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Dispute over Jesus’ Testimony
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have...
Dieuner Joseph
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The Woman Caught in Adultery
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn, he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he...
Dieuner Joseph
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The Legalism Trap
Finally, the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?” “No one ever...
Dieuner Joseph
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Division over who Jesus is Part II
Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me. You will look for me, but you will not find...
Dieuner Joseph
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Division Over Who Jesus is
At that point, some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? Here he is, speaking publicly,...
Dieuner Joseph
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Jesus Teaches at the Festival of Tabernacles
Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. The Jews there were amazed and asked,...
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Jesus goes to the Festival of Tabernacles Part II
Therefore, Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you, any time will do. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I...
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Jesus goes to the Festival of Tabernacle
After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to...