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SUNDAY (Rest, Catch Up, and Next Week's Overview)

All of this week's verses are repeated again today in case you missed any of them. 

Four questions to engage with each day:

What stood out to me in today’s passage? 

What does it mean or tell me about Jesus?

What does it say to me about how I view myself?

What choice is God placing before me today in response?

Bible Project video John Part 2 (Chapters 13-21) 

This week we’ve provided the link for the Bible Project video John Part 2 (chapters 13-21). Take some time to watch as it continues to lay out the map for the rest of the book of John.

Week 5 Overview (John 12:27 - 15:17)  

Were your school history classes like mine? They often felt like a lifeless exercise of memorizing persons, dates, and events. We rarely paused to understand the deeper meaning behind their significance. As you embark upon these final chapters in John’s gospel, please avoid reading them like a history textbook. 

Remember that you are reading an eyewitness account from John, the tough, weathered fisherman who was so drawn to Jesus that he abruptly left everything to follow him. In the ensuing three years, he becomes so close to Jesus that he is called the “beloved disciple.” At the end of his gospel, John claims there is so much more that could have been written about Jesus, however this is the priority evidence he wants others to know.

Therefore, it is important that we pay close attention to John’s account of Jesus’ final days on Earth. Using your imagination, place yourself there in the upper room during the Passover meal. Read slowly, re-read, and then meditate upon these final teachings of Jesus – the ones he most wants to share with others as he faces death.

This section starts with a poignant admission of Jesus’ anxiety (his humanness) juxtaposed with his resolute commitment to fulfill his mission (his divinity). It is in times of trouble when we see the character and heart of a person. As he approaches death, Jesus is misunderstood, betrayed, abandoned, and denied by those closest to him. In response, Jesus tenderly serves, assures, encourages, and promises an advocate to them as he teaches them one last time during the Passover meal. 

This is so much more than a history lesson. This is life changing! 

As you read and reflect this week, ask yourself: How am I like those early disciples? How might Jesus’ actions and words in his last days on earth encourage me now?