JOHN BAPTIZING AT THE JORDAN (Aviv [1^st Hebrew Month])

John 1 – John 2:12

The Apostle John’s Intro

John the Baptist’s declaration,”Make straight the Way of the Lord” (1 day prior to Aviv)

1^st day of Aviv, 1^st month of Hebrew New Year – John the Baptist announces “Behold the Lamb of God”

Two of John the Baptist followers (John and Andrew) become Jesus‘ disciples

2^nd Day of Aviv – Jesus gathers 3 more disciples, Peter, Philip and Nathanael

“On the 3^rd Day” (of Aviv) – Wedding at Cana, Prophetic picture of Jesus returning for the Wedding Feast

1^st Miracle – Turning Water into Wine

THE FIRST PASSOVER (JERUSALEM, Aviv [1^st Hebrew Month])

John 2:13 – John 3:21

Jesus makes a scourge of cords and drives out the money changers

“Destroy this temple, and in three days will I raise it up!”

Nicodemus comes to visit Jesus by Night

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth [pisteuo = trust] in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life”

JESUS GOES TO JUDAEA

John 3:22 – John 4:2

Jesus‘ disciples baptize, though Jesus does not

John the Baptist testifies of Christ, “He must increase, but I must decrease”

JESUS LEAVES FOR GALILEE VIA SAMARIA

John 4:3 – John 4:54

Jesus meets the Samaritan woman and offers her Living Water

Jesus‘ disciples ask if he has eaten, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work”

2^nd Miracle – Jesus Heals the nobleman’s son

FEAST OF PENTECOST (JERUSALEM, Shivan [3^rd Hebrew Month])

John 5

3^rd Miracle – Jesus Heals the paralytic at the pool

Jewish leaders seek to kill him as he healed on the Sabbath, and equated himself with God, “the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do”

Jesus provides 5 witnesses of himself, John the Baptist, The Father, the works, the scriptures, Moses’ writings (the pentateuch)

SUMMER IN THE GALILEE

John 6

John 6:4 does not belong in Bible

4^th Miracle – Feeding of the 5000

5^th Miracle – Walking on the Water

Jesus teaches at the synagogue in Capernaum, “I AM the Bread of Life”, “he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever [zoe life]”

Despite these hard saying, his disciples stay with him, including Judas

FEAST OF TABERNACLES (JERUSALEM, Tishri [7^th Hebrew Month])

John 7-John 10:21

Jesus‘ siblings go to the feast openly, Jesus does so in secret, as the Jewish leaders sought to kill him

Jesus causes division among the people [Liar, Lunatic or Lord?], he points out the Jewish leader’ hypocrisy for wanting to kill him, they sought to take him,“but no man laid hands on him”

John 7:53-8:11 should be after John 7:36 and before 7:37

The Woman caught in the act of adultery, :Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more”

John 7:37, the last, great day of the feast, Jesus continues to teach in the temple, “I AM the Light of the World”

Jesus bears witness of himself, as does his Father, Jesus says to those that trust him, “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples [mathetes = pupils] indeed, and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free”

The Jewish leaders refuse to believe, their earthly father may be Abraham, but their spiritual father is the devil [Tree of Life vs Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil, and their respective fruits]

They seek to stone him, and so he passes by and immediately encounters the man blind from birth, John 9

6^th Miracle – Healing a Man Born Blind

Jesus heals this man’s physical blindness, and later his spiritual blindness

In contrast, the Pharisees believe they see, and remain spiritually blind

As we prepare for John 10, note that Jesus is still talking in the presence of these Jewish leaders. John 7:1 – John 10:21 is one long sequence which occurs over the Feast of Tabernacles and ends with John 10:21, “Others said, these are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?”

https://www.hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Introduction/introduction.html (Feasts of the Lord)