by Wells, Steve
(3.8) “The wind bloeth where it listeth, and thou … canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth.” Jesus says that no one knows which way the wind is blowing. But he was wrong about that. The direction and speed of the wind are easily measured.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
(3.12) “If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?” He was wrong about creation, wrong about the flood, and wrong about the smallest seed. So why would anyone believe him when he talks about heaven?
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
(3.13) “No man hath ascended up to heaven.” Not even Enoch or Elijah?
26 Has anyone ever ascended into heaven?
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
(3.14) “Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness.” Jesus believed the stupid and vicious story from Numbers 21. (God sent snakes to bite the people for complaining about the lack of food and water. Then God told Moses to make a brass snake to cure them from the bites.)
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(3.16) “God so loved the world, that he gave his His only begotten Son.” As an example to parents everywhere and to save the world (from himself), God had his own son tortured and killed.
131 Does God love everyone?
28 Was Jesus God’s only son?
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
(3.18) “He that believeth not is condemned.” Those who, for whatever reason, do not believe in Jesus will be tormented forever in hell.
304 Is Salvation by faith alone?
359 How are people judged by God?
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
(3.22) “There he tarried with them, and baptized.”
438 Did Jesus baptize anyone?
23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
(3.24) “John was not yet cast into prison.”
337 Which came first: the calling of Peter and Andrew or the imprisonment of John the Baptist?
25 Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
(3.36) “He that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” The “wrath of God” is on all non-believers.
304 Is Salvation by faith alone?
359 How are people judged by God?
JOHN 4
4 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
(4.2) “Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples.”
438 Did Jesus baptize anyone?
3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
(4.7-18) Jesus magically perceived that a Samaritan woman had been married and divorced five times previously. (He could spot a divorced woman a mile away.) Since women weren’t allowed to get a divorce, it was always the woman’s fault and divorced women were considered outcasts. This was a great opportunity for Jesus to explain why the Mosaic marriage laws were unjust and correct them —if he thought they were wrong, that is, which apparently he didn’t.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
(4.7) “There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water.”
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
(4.16) “Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.”
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
(4.17-18) “The woman … sai
d, I have no husband. Jesus said … thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband.”
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
(4.24) “God is a spirit.”
17 Does God have a body?
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
(4.29) “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did.” Jesus didn’t tell the Samaritan woman everything that had ever happened to her. He just used the same trick that successful palm readers, astrologers, and fortune tellers use to make gullible people say to themselves, “How could he have knownthat about me?”
30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
(4.39) “Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him.”
432 Did the Samaritans receive Jesus?
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his own word;
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
(4.46-51) Jesus heals a nobleman’s son.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
(4.46) “Jesus came again into Cana … And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.”
47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
(4.47) “He … besought him that he would come … and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.”
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
(4.50) “Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth.”
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
(4.51) “As he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.”
52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
JOHN 5
5 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
(5.4) “An angel went down … into the pool, and troubled the water: Whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.” Whoever enters a pool after it is stirred up by angels will be cured of “whatsoever disease he had.”
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
(5.5) “A certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.”
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
(5.8) “Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.”
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
(5.9) “And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked.”
10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
(5.14) “Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” Jesus believed people are crippled by God as a punishment for sin. He told a crippled man, after healing him, to “sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.”
15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
(5.16-18) John, with his usual anti-Semitism, says that the Jews persecuted Jesus and “sought to slay him.”
16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
(5.16) “Therefore did the Jews persecu
te Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.”
17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
(5.17) “Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” Jesus says he and his dad always work on the Sabbath. (So you can too!)
101 Is it necessary to keep the Sabbath?
439 Does God work on the Sabbath?
18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
(5.18) “Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.”
349 Is Jesus God?
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
(5.21) “As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.” Jesus can make any dead body live just like his dad can.
22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
(5.22) “The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son.”
440 Does Jesus judge people?
23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
(5.24) “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life.”
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.