• Part First. The Preliminary Ministry of Jesus. John 1:1-4:54..

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JOHN.

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PART FIRST.

THE PRELIMINARY MINISTRY OF JESUS.

i. 1-iv. 54.

§ I. HIS PUBLIC INTRODUCTION BY JOHN THE BAPTIST.
i. 1-51.

1. His Eternal Pre-existence. i. 1-14.

• In what beginning? 1-3, cf. Gen. i. 1.
• Did John originate the title, "the Word"?
• Was the Word created? 3.
• Purpose of John's coming? 7.
• Why not say, John the Baptist?
• How, "lighteth every man"? 9.
• Meaning of, "came unto his own"? 11.
• What the right of the believer? 12.
• How born of God? and not of blood, etc.? 13.
• How the Word identified with Jesus? 14.
• What the nature of the birth of Jesus?

2. A Part of John's Testimony and a Comment by the Writer.
15-18.

• When had John said this? 15, cf. Matt. iii. 11, 14.
• What words here are those of the writer, and how distinguished? 16-18.
• What the distinction here stated between Moses and Christ? 17.

3. Another Part of John's Testimony. 19-28.

• Why does the writer speak of the Jews in the third person when he was himself a Jew? 19.
• Why send priests and Levites? [108] 19.
• Why say he was not Elijah? 21, cf. Matt. xi. 14.
• What prophet? 21, cf. Deut. xviii. 15-19.
• How did the reference to Isaiah identify him? 23, cf. Isa. xl. 1-11.
• Force of the question, "Why then baptizest thou" etc.? 25.
• Was John now at his first place of baptizing? 28, cf. Matt. iii. 1.

4. Jesus Declared the Lamb of God and the Son of God. 29-34.

• What did John mean by, "lamb of God"? 29.
• If he knew him not, why object to baptizing him? 31, cf. Matt. iii. 14.
• When was all this testimony given? 32, 29; Matt. iv. 1, 2.
• What, then, was the first movement of Jesus after his temptation?
• Whence John's knowledge that Jesus was the Son of God? 33, 34, cf. Matt. iii. 17.

5. The Last Testimony Repeated. 35-42 a.

• How long did the two stay with Jesus? 39.
• Who was Andrew's companion? 40.
• Why the new name given to Simon? 42.
• What convinced these men?

6. Other Disciples Gained at the Jordan. 42 b-51.

• What convinced Philip? 44, 45, 29.
• Why Nathanael so easily convinced? 50.
• Meaning of the prediction in 51?
• What the reputation of Nazareth?

§ II. PREPARATORY WORK IN GALILEE AND JUDÆA.
ii. 1-iii. 36.

1. A Brief Visit to Galilee and the First Miracle. ii. 1-12.

• Third day after what?
• Describe Cana. L. of B., 317.
• Distance [109] from Bethany beyond Jordan?
• When the invitation? 2.
• Why did Mary expect a miracle? 3, 5.
• Meaning of his answer? 4.
• What purifying meant? 6, cf. Mark vii. 1-4.
• How much is a firkin? 6. [Greek, metretes, probably the bath, equals eight and three fourths gallons].
• Quality of the wine? 10.
• Why right to make wine?
• Why visit Capernaum? 12.

2. Jesus Goes to the Passover. 13-22.

• On what did he use the scourge? 15.
• How did zeal eat him up? 17.
• Why demand a sign? 18.
• How did they count forty-six years? 20.

3. Signs Wrought during the Passover. 23-25.

• Where did he work his first group of signs? 23, cf. 4.
• Force of the remark about not trusting himself to men in Jerusalem? 24, 25.

4. Conversation with Nicodemus. iii. 1-15.

• Why did Nicodemus come, and why by night? 2, cf. ii. 24.
• Correctness of his reasoning? 2.
• Why did Jesus change the topic? 3.
• What the thought in Nicodemus' reply? 4.
• How did iii. 5 answer Nicodemus' question? 5.
• Meaning of iii. 6? cf. 13.
• Explain iii. 8. See the margin.
• Point in the question, "How can these things be?"
• Why should he have understood? 10.
• What the earthly things and the heavenly? 12.
• Points in the comparison to the serpent? 14, 15. [110]

5. Remarks on the Mission of Jesus and the Sin of Unbelief.
16-21.

• Gave his Son in what sense? 16.
• Sense of the words "judged" and "judgment"? 17-19.
• Whose remarks are these?

6. Jesus at the Jordan, and John at Ænon. 22-30.

• What baptism was Jesus administering? 22.
• Force of the reason for baptizing in Ænon? 23.
• Describe the place. L. of B., 292-294.
• What the question about purifying? 25.
• What trait of character seen in John's reply? 27-30.

7. Superiority of the Son, and the Blessing of Faith. 31-36.

• Why say, "no man receiveth his witness"? 32.
• Meaning of the remark about a seal? 33.
• When all things given into his hand? 35.
• Connection of belief and obedience in 36?
• Whose words in this paragraph?

§ III. JESUS LEAVES JUDÆA AND JOURNEYS TO GALILEE.iv. 1-54.

1. His Departure. iv. 1-6.

• Force of the reason for leaving? 1-3.
• What piece of ground? 5; cf. Gen. xxxiii. 19; Joshua xxiv. 32.
• Describe the well. L. of B., 282.

2. He Converses with a Samaritan Woman. 7-26.

• What meant by living water? 10.
• Why did not the woman understand?
• Why speak so she could not understand?
• Why did Jesus change the topic? 16.
• Why did she change it? 20.
• What [111] mountain referred to, and what worship? 20.
• Describe mount Gerizim. L. of B., 289-292.
• How is salvation from the Jews? 22.
• What is it to worship in spirit and in truth? 23, 24.
• Purpose of the whole conversation? 25, 26.

3. Remarks to the Disciples. 27-38.

• Why marvel that he was speaking with a woman? 27.
• Why leave her waterpot? 28.
• Why did she exaggerate? 29.
• What took the appetite of Jesus? 32, 35.
• What month of the year? 35.
• Who the sowers and reapers? 38.
• How could he say, "I sent you"?

4. Results in Sychar, and Arrival in Galilee. 39-45.

• Why had such a woman such influence? 39.
• Why Samaritans so hospitable to Jews? 40, cf. 9.
• Effect of the miracle at Jerusalem? 45.

5. Second Miracle in Cana. 46-54.

• Who was the nobleman? See margin, and cf. Luke viii. 3.
• Why did he believe? 50.
• Why not meet the servants until the next day? 52.
• Relation in time of this Part of John to the other Gospels? Cf.Matt. iv. 11, 12; Mark i. 13, 14; Luke iv. 13, 14. [112]