The Gospel According to John ~ Week 19

The Gospel According To John ~ Week 19 ~ Dean Johnson ~ 07.25.21

The Way

John 19:1

Hebrews 4:15

• “weaknesses” in the original language means illness; and lack of strength.  Jesus has endured all those.

John 19:2-3

• tree has very sharp, strong thorns.  The Ark of the Covenant was made out of this tree.

John 19:4-6

John 19:10-11

Johns 19:7

John 14:6

Mark 3:21 

• Jesus’ claim is dogmatic, and leaves no room for any other answer, because this is the nature of truth.  There is only one answer. 

• “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. “ — C.S. Lewis
• Jesus’ claim is not only bold and audacious, it’s dogmatic.  It leaves no room for any other .

John 8:31-32

• THE truth sets you free from searching for .