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John 1:19

Weymouth NT

This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.

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He came as a witness, in order that he might give testimony concerning the Light–so that all might believe through him.

when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, »How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so plainly.«

Again the Jews brought stones with which to stone Him.

and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary, having come to express sympathy with them on the death of their brother.

So the Jews asked Him, »What proof of your authority do you exhibit to us, seeing that you do these things?«

»It has taken forty-six years,« replied the Jews, »to build this Sanctuary, and will you rebuild it in three days?«

That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, »It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat.«

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored him to health;

and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus–because He did these things on the Sabbath.

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death–because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.

This led to an angry debate among the Jews. »How can this man,« they argued, »give us his flesh to eat?«

After this Jesus moved from place to place in Galilee. He would not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were seeking an opportunity to kill Him.

Meanwhile the Jews at the Festival were looking for Him and were inquiring, »Where is he?«

The Jews were astonished. »How does this man know anything of books,« they said, »although he has never been at any of the schools?«

The Jews began to ask one another, »Is he going to kill himself, do you think, that he says, `Where I am going, it is impossible for you to come'?«

»Are we not right,« answered the Jews, »in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?«

»Now,« exclaimed the Jews, »we know that you are possessed by a demon. Abraham died, and so did the Prophets, and yet you say, `If any one shall have obeyed my teaching, he shall in no case ever taste death.'

»You are not yet fifty years old,« cried the Jews, »and have you seen Abraham?«

But John, towards the end of his career, repeatedly asked the people, »`What do you suppose me to be? I am not the Christ. But there is One coming after me whose sandal I am not worthy to unfasten.'

»John,« he said, »administered a baptism of repentance, bidding the people believe on One who was to come after him; namely, on Jesus.«

This is the Message which we have heard from the Lord Jesus and now deliver to you–God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness.




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