JOHN
CHAPTER 5
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
OBSERVATION
STAGE
The purpose of
the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand in
accordance with the framework in which it was written: a framework which
is defined by the normative rules of language, context and logic. Rules
which do not impose undue, unintended meanings to the text
,
and which largely limit the observer to the content offered by the Gospel
of John. In order for any passage from elsewhere to be considered, it must
have a relationship with the context at hand, such as a Scriptural
quotation or a specific cross reference in the passage at hand by the
author. This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere;
and more importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and
objective comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in
view.
I)
[Jn 5:1-14]:
A)
(5:1-14) JESUS RETURNS TO JERUSALEM AT FEAST TIME. HE HEALS AN INVALID
AT BETHESDA POOL ON THE SABBATH AND AT JESUS' COMMAND THE MAN PICKS UP
HIS PALLET AND WALKS. JEWISH AUTHORITIES PURSUED THEM BOTH FOR ALLEGEDLY
VIOLATING THE SABBATH - THE HEALED MAN FOR CARRYING HIS PALLET, JESUS
FOR HEALING HIM. WHEN CONFRONTED BY THE JEWS, THE MAN, BLAMED JESUS FOR
IT ALL TO AVOID PUNISHMENT FROM THE JEWS. MEANWHILE JESUS SLIPPED AWAY
THROUGH THE CROWDS AND LATER FOUND THE MAN HE HEALED AT THE TEMPLE. HE
TOLD HIM TO SIN NO MORE LEST SOMETHING WORSE HAPPEN WITH A VIEW TO HIS
UNCONSCIONABLE INGRATITUDE
II)
[Jn 5:15-18]:
A)
(5:15-18) WHEN THE UNGRATEFUL MAN WHO WAS HEALED AT THE BETHESDA POOL
LEFT THE TEMPLE, HE VOLUNTARILY POINTED JESUS OUT TO THE JEWS AS THE ONE
WHO MADE HIM WELL, EVIDENTLY TO CURRY FAVOR WITH THEM. ALTHOUGH THERE
WAS NO REAL VIOLATION OF THE LAW, THE JEWISH LEADERS THOUGHT OTHERWISE,
AND SOUGHT JESUS TO KILL HIM. JESUS' ANSWER REFERRED TO GOD AS HIS
FATHER IN A UNIQUELY INTIMATE WAY ON THE SAME PLANE WITH GOD, MAKING
HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD. HE THEN EQUATED THE WORK OF GOD, HIS FATHER,
WITH HIS OWN WORK IN KIND, QUALITY AND DURATION: GOD'S WORK HAS NEVER
CEASED FROM THE BEGINNING - NOT EVEN ON THE SABBATH; AND IT CONSISTS OF
WORKS OF GRACE AND MERCY, OF JUDGMENT, OF MAINTAINING THE UNIVERSE
III)
[Jn 5:19-21]:
A)
(5:19-21) JESUS CONFIRMED TO THE JEWS THAT HE WAS CLAIMING EQUALITY WITH
GOD WHEN HE STATED TO THE JEWS THAT HE, THE SON, CAN DO NOTHING OF
HIMSELF, BUT WHAT HE SEES THE FATHER DO; FOR WHATEVER THE FATHER DOES,
THE SON ALSO DOES IN LIKE MANNER. FURTHERMORE, THE FATHER LOVES THE SON
AND SHOWS HIM ALL THINGS THAT HE HIMSELF DOES; AND HE WILL SHOW HIM
GREATER WORKS THAN THESE THAT THE JEWS MAY MARVEL. FOR AS THE FATHER
RAISES THE DEAD, SO THE SON GIVES LIFE TO WHOM HE WILL
IV)
[Jn 5:22-23]:
A)
(5:22-23) JESUS STATES FURTHER TO THE JEWS WHO WERE SEEKING HIM THAT THE
FATHER JUDGES NO ONE FOR HE HAS COMMITTED ALL JUDGMENT TO THE SON,
MEANING JESUS HIMSELF, SO THAT ALL SHOULD HONOR THE SON AS THEY HONOR
THE FATHER WHO SENT HIM. HE WHO DOES NOT HONOR THE SON DOES NOT HONOR
THE FATHER
V)
[Jn 5:24]:
A)
(5:24) JESUS SAID, EMPHATICALLY TO THE JEWS, THAT HE WHO HEARS AND
BELIEVES IN HIS MESSAGE THAT GOD SENT HIS SON TO BE AN ATONING SACRIFICE
FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE AND SHOULD
NOT COME INTO JUDGMENT, BUT HAS PASSED OUT OF ETERNAL DEATH TO ETERNAL
LIFE
VI)
[Jn 5:25-27]:
A)
(5:25-27) JESUS EMPHATICALLY DECLARED THAT THE HOUR WAS IMMINENT WHEN
THOSE OF THE DEAD WHO HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD, JESUS - ALL
THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS, WILL BE RAISED TO ETERNAL LIFE. FOR JUST AS THE
FATHER HAS LIFE IN HIMSELF, SO HE HAS GIVEN THE SON IN HIS HUMANITY TO
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HIMSELF. FURTHERMORE, GOD GAVE HIS SON AUTHORITY TO
EXECUTE JUDGMENT BECAUSE HE, JESUS, IS THE SON OF MAN
1)
[Compare Jn 1:1-4]:
*** EXCERPT
FROM JOHN CHAPTER ONE RE: JESUS AS THE SON OF MAN ***
..................................OR
SKIP TO THE NEXT SECTION
AS
JOHN THE BAPTIST CONTINUED TO ANNOUNCE JESUS AS THE LAMB OF GOD, ANDREW
AND ANOTHER DISCIPLE OF JOHN BEGAN TO FOLLOW JESUS. SIMON PETER, PHILIP
AND NATHANAEL JOIN THEM. DECLARATIONS ARE MADE OF FINDING THE MESSIAH IN
JESUS, AND THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD AND KING OF ISRAEL. DUE TO
NATHANAEL'S REMARKABLE FAITH IN HIM, JESUS SAYS TO NATHANAEL: "HEREAFTER
YOU SHALL SEE HEAVEN OPEN, AND THE ANGELS OF GOD ASCENDING AND
DESCENDING UPON THE SON OF MAN"
1)
[Compare Jn 1:38 Greek]:
2)
[Compare Gen 28:10-12]:
3)
[Compare Dan 7:9-14]:
4)
[Compare Ps 80:14-17]:
*** END OF EXCERPT FROM
JOHN CHAPTER ONE ***
VII)
[Jn 5:28-30]:
A)
(JN 5:28-30) JESUS TELLS THE JEWS NOT TO MARVEL (NOT TO QUESTION) THAT
THE FATHER HAS GIVEN THE SON - HIMSELF - ALL AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE
JUDGMENT UPON ALL MANKIND; FOR HE SAID THAT AN HOUR WAS COMING WHEN THIS
WILL BE MANIFESTED - WHEN ALL WHO REMAIN IN THE GRAVE, (EVERY
UNBELIEVER), WILL HEAR HIS VOICE AND COME FORTH - THOSE WHO DID NOTHING
BUT GOOD DEEDS TO A RESURRECTION OF ETERNAL LIFE, (WHICH WILL BE NONE OF
THEM); THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED ANY EVIL DEED TO A RESURRECTION OF
ETERNAL CONDEMNATION, (WHICH WILL BE ALL OF THEM). HIS JUDGMENT WILL NOT
BE OF HIS OWN ACCORD, FOR HE IS NOT ABLE OF HIMSELF TO DO ANYTHING BUT
THAT WHICH IS ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF THE FATHER WHO SENT HIM. AS HE
HEARS THE WILL OF GOD, HE JUDGES ACCORDINGLY. HIS JUDGMENT IS ABSOLUTELY
RIGHTEOUS, BECAUSE IT IS THE JUDGMENT OF GOD
VIII)
[Jn 5:31-47]:
A)
(5:31-47) JESUS SAID TO THE JEWS WHO WERE SEEKING TO KILL HIM THAT IF HE
BORE WITNESS OF HIMSELF, (ALTHOUGH ACCURATE), IT WOULD NOT BE TRUE IN
THE SENSE OF IT BEING VALID TESTIMONY.
HE
THEN SAID THAT ANOTHER BORE WITNESS OF HIM WHOSE WITNESS HE HAD KNOWN
WAS TRUE: JOHN THE BAPTIST, TO WHOM THE JEWS WERE SENT TO INVESTIGATE.
BUT
JESUS SAID HE RECEIVED TESTIMONY FROM NO MAN, FOR ONLY HIS FATHER'S
TESTIMONY WILL DO. HE SAID THESE THINGS BECAUSE THERE WAS GREATER
TESTIMONY FROM THE FATHER WHICH THE JEWS MIGHT CHOOSE TO BELIEVE AND BE
SAVED; FOR JOHN WAS THE BURNING AND SHINING LAMP OF TRUTH; BUT THE JEWS
WERE ONLY WILLING FOR A WHILE TO REJOICE IN HIS LIGHT UNTIL THEY FOUND
OUT THAT HE WAS NOT THE CHRIST, OR THE PROPHET WHO WAS TO COME. SO THE
JEWS REJECTED JESUS' AND JOHN'S TESTIMONY.
HENCE
JESUS DECLARED THAT HE HAD GREATER TESTIMONY THAN JOHN'S - THE FATHER'S:
THE
WORKS THAT HE DID WHICH THE FATHER HAD GIVEN HIM TO FINISH BORE WITNESS
OF WHO HE WAS - THAT THE FATHER HAD SENT HIM;
AND JESUS
SAID THAT THE FATHER WHO SENT HIM TESTIFIED OF HIM.
SINCE THE
JEWS NEITHER BELIEVED THAT THE WORKS HE PERFORMED WERE GIVEN TO HIM BY THE
FATHER TO DO, NOR BELIEVED THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHOM GOD SENT SO THAT THEY
MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; JESUS CONCLUDED THAT THE JEWS HAD NEITHER HEARD
THE FATHER'S VOICE NOR SEEN HIS FORM, NOR HAD THEY HIS WORD ABIDING IN
THEM IN THE SENSE OF IT OPERATING IN THEIR LIVES.
HE SAID
THAT THEY SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES THINKING THAT IT WOULD BRING THEM
ETERNAL LIFE - SCRIPTURES WHICH TESTIFIED ABOUT JESUS WHOM THEY WERE
UNWILLING TO COME TO SO THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
JESUS SAID
THAT HE WAS NOT MOTIVATED TO SEEK GLORY FROM MAN BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT THE
CHARACTER OF MAN WAS NOT TRUSTWORTHY. HE DECLARED THAT THE JEWISH
AUTHORITIES DID NOT HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD IN THEM. HE RECEIVED GLORY FROM
GOD AND HE CAME IN HIS FATHER'S NAME AND YET THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM. BUT
IF ANOTHER CAME IN HIS OWN NAME, THE JEWS WOULD RECEIVE HIM. HE DECLARED
IN A RHETORICAL QUESTION, 'HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE WHEN YOU RECEIVE GLORY FROM
ONE ANOTHER AND DO NOT SEEK THE GLORY THAT IS FROM THE ONE AND ONLY GOD?'
IN
CONCLUSION, JESUS SAID FOR THEM NOT TO THINK THAT HE WOULD ACCUSE THEM
BEFORE THE FATHER, FOR THE ONE WHO ACCUSES THEM IS MOSES, IN WHOM THEY
HAVE SET THEIR HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE. IF THEY HAD BELIEVED IN MOSES, THEY
WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IN JESUS, BECAUSE MOSES WROTE CONCERNING JESUS. AND
SINCE THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE WRITINGS OF MOSES, HOW WOULD THEY
BELIEVE IN JESUS' WORDS? =
1)
[Compare Jn 5:19 NKJV]:
2)
[Compare Jn 2:23-25]:
CONTINUE
TO CHAPTER 6 
