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• NIV John 51 Some time later, Jesus went up to
  Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.

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• Which feast???
• John may have purposely left out this information
  because it was not pertinent to his message.
  Instead, by simply mentioning Jesus was attending
  a feast, he lets his audience know why the Savior
  left Galilee, and, more importantly, lets them
  know that a feast in Jerusalem meant the city and
  temple would be filled to capacity with people
  from throughout the region.

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Fourth Gospel and Jewish Worship by Aileen
Guilding

• University of Sheffeld prof.
• She shows how ancient 3 year Jewish lectionary is
  followed by John.
• This feast would correspond with Feast of
  Trumpets and readings of restoration as the
  purpose of the Sabbath, looking forward to the
  Last Day when the Trumpet of the Lord sounds.

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• The Feast of Trumpets is specifically and
  biblically the first day of the month of Tishri.
  Leviticus 2324 states, "Speak to the children of
  Israel, saying 'In the seventh month, on the
  first day of the month, you shall have a
  sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets,
  a holy convocation" (NKJV). It is the only Hebrew
  feast to occur on a new moon.

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• Rosh Hashanah (feast of trumpets) is observed as
  a day of rest (Leviticus 2324) and the
  activities prohibited on Shabbat are also
  prohibited on Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is
  characterized by the blowing of the shofar, a
  trumpet made from a ram's horn, intended to
  awaken the listener from his or her "slumber" and
  alert them to the coming judgment.

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• 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate
  a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and
  which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.

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Sheep gate rebuilt in 1500s
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• Sheep gate also known as

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The Sheep Gate

• Remember the animals needed for sacrifices
  sometimes ran over 200,000 for special feasts
  like the Passover. This was a very busy section
  of Jerusalem and the Temple with doves, sheep,
  and cattle being brought in.

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The Pool of Bethesda

• Two pools (in trapezoidal form) formed upper and
  lower resevoires. This also may explain a source
  for the much need water with the cleansing and
  sacrifices in the Temple.

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• 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to
  lie-- the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 4 5
  One who was there had been an invalid for
  thirty-eight years.

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• 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that
  he had been in this condition for a long time, he
  asked him, "Do you want to get well?" 7 "Sir,"
  the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me
  into the pool when the water is stirred. While I
  am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead
  of me."

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Stirred water

• There was local tale that an angel stirred the
  water from time to time and the ill could be
  healed.
• The stirring may have been the action of an
  underground spring.

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• 8 Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your
  mat and walk." 9 At once the man was cured he
  picked up his mat and walked. The day on which
  this took place was a Sabbath,

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• 10 and so the Jews said to the man who had been
  healed, "It is the Sabbath the law forbids you
  to carry your mat." 11 But he replied, "The man
  who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat
  and walk.'"

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• 12 So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who
  told you to pick it up and walk?" 13 The man who
  was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had
  slipped away into the crowd that was there.

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• 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said
  to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or
  something worse may happen to you." 15 The man
  went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who
  had made him well.

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How might the man be sinning???

• Obviously, the man had opportunity to speak of
  the healing and restoration done on the
  Sabbath!!!
• This was a chief reason for the Sabbath!!! God
  restores. Christ restores.
• He diverts attention to self by not mentioning
  the healing and stating Jesus is responsible for
  his carry his mat, against Jewish tradition based
  on the Law.

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Found Jesus in Temple Courts Later
Sheep Gate
Bethesda
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• NIV John 516 So, because Jesus was doing these
  things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.
• Persecution?
• Endiokon Relentless pursuit.

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• 17 Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at
  his work to this very day, and I, too, am
  working."
• Jesus says that His Father and He restore on the
  Sabbath.
• Jesus statement claims equality with God, as the
  next verse states. But Jesus is also saying that
  He has exemption and authority to heal alongside
  His Father on Sabbaths.

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• 18 For this reason the Jews tried all the harder
  to kill him not only was he breaking the
  Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own
  Father, making himself equal with God.

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• 19 Jesus gave them this answer "I tell you the
  truth, the Son can do nothing by himself he can
  do only what he sees his Father doing, because
  whatever the Father does the Son also does.
• Children reflect and emulate parents.
• Remember we were to be Gods image, reflection,
  and emulation before sin.

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• 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him
  all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show
  him even greater things than these. 21 For just
  as the Father raises the dead and gives them
  life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is
  pleased to give it.

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• The Father restores.
• The Son restores.
• Like Dad, like Son.

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• 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has
  entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 that all
  may honor the Son just as they honor the Father.
  He who does not honor the Son does not honor the
  Father, who sent him.
• Judgment is solely entrusted to the Son???
  People are judged in how they respond to or treat
  Christ. How one treats God in the Flesh is how
  one treats God as a whole. Jesus states that He
  is the touchstone of God or the tip of the
  iceberg of God.

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• 24 "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word
  and believes him who sent me has eternal life and
  will not be condemned he has crossed over from
  death to life.
• Cherishing Christ and His Word (through the
  apostles and prophets) reflects saving faith.

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• 25 I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has
  now come when the dead will hear the voice of the
  Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For
  as the Father has life in himself, so he has
  granted the Son to have life in himself.
• Again, as the Father restores, the Son restores.

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• 27 And he has given him authority to judge
  because he is the Son of Man.

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The Son of Man

• NIV Daniel 713 "In my vision at night I looked,
  and there before me was one like a son of man,
  coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached
  the Ancient of Days and was led into his
  presence. 14 He was given authority, glory and
  sovereign power all peoples, nations and men of
  every language worshiped him. His dominion is an
  everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and
  his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

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• 28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is
  coming when all who are in their graves will hear
  his voice 29 and come out-- those who have done
  good will rise to live, and those who have done
  evil will rise to be condemned.
• The good and evil conduct is specific to the text
  at hand. How one treats Christ judges oneself.

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• 30 By myself I can do nothing I judge only as I
  hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to
  please myself but him who sent me.
• Christ is THE loving child who delights to please
  His Dad, Father.
• NIV Galatians 46 Because you are sons, God sent
  the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit
  who calls out, "Abba, Father."

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• NIV John 531 "If I testify about myself, my
  testimony is not valid. 32 There is another who
  testifies in my favor, and I know that his
  testimony about me is valid.
• You cannot stand up as your own witness in legal
  documents or proceedings.
• In the Divine Image of God, greatness is found in
  dependence upon others, not security by self.

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• The Son pours out self for God and man.
• The Son gives glory to the Father, Spirit, and
  man.
• The Son is dependent upon the Father and Spirit
  for the glory He receives.
• Now reflect on how this is true for the Father
  and Spirit.
• Think how this corresponds to you.

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• 33 "You have sent to John and he has testified
  to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human
  testimony but I mention it that you may be saved.

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• 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light,
  and you chose for a time to enjoy his light. 36
  "I have testimony weightier than that of John.
  For the very work that the Father has given me to
  finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the
  Father has sent me.

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• 37 And the Father who sent me has himself
  testified concerning me. You have never heard his
  voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word
  dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he
  sent.

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• John was recognized as a prophet. He testified
  that Jesus was God.
• The Father testified to this as divine healing
  and restoration only come from God.

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• Jesus words are very enciting. He is telling
  the religious that they are not religious tall.

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• 39 You diligently study the Scriptures because
  you think that by them you possess eternal life.
  These are the Scriptures that testify about me,

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• Repeatedly, Jesus states the whole Old Testament
  points to Himself.
• NIV Luke 2444 He said to them, "This is what I
  told you while I was still with you Everything
  must be fulfilled that is written about me in the
  Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."

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• 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life. 41
  "I do not accept praise from men, 42 but I know
  you. I know that you do not have the love of God
  in your hearts.
• Again, how one treats Christ is how one treats
  God. Jesus states what He sees.

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• 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do
  not accept me but if someone else comes in his
  own name, you will accept him.
• What does this mean?

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• In the Pax Romana, many were looking forward to
  the Messiah. People were not hated for claiming
  to be the Messiah, as long as they were friendly
  with the existing establishment. So you may have
  many messianic hopefuls (pretenders) that were
  uncontested.
• Jesus heals and teaches like no other, but
  threatens ones position and understanding. This
  is why He is pursued.

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• 44 How can you believe if you accept praise from
  one another, yet make no effort to obtain the
  praise that comes from the only God?
• Jesus can provide FAVOR from and for God. He
  states His audience seeks FAVOR from fellow man.

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• 45 "But do not think I will accuse you before the
  Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes
  are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would
  believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But since
  you do not believe what he wrote, how are you
  going to believe what I say?"
• What does this mean?

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• NIV Deuteronomy 1815 The LORD your God will
  raise up for you a prophet like me from among
  your own brothers. You must listen to him. 16 For
  this is what you asked of the LORD your God at
  Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said,
  "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God
  nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die."
  17 The LORD said to me "What they say is good.
  18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you
  from among their brothers I will put my words in
  his mouth, and he will tell them everything I
  command him.