Bible II Unit 3 Lesson 1: Prologue to John, John 1:1-18
Learning Goals
- Identify author, audience, focus, and structure of the book of John
- Explain how we know what the focus is AND how we know that the book was written to the audience that it was written to
- Identify and preview some of the unique content in the book of John
Author :
- “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 13:21-25)
- A fisherman who became a _____________________
Purpose – like all the Gospels
- All the Gospels were written to get people to believe that Jesus _____________________ to pay for our sins
- John 20:30-31, “So that people will have life by believing that Jesus is God, the savior”
Focus: Jesus is _________ who became a man
- The book clearly teaches the deity of Jesus but it also shows that he was human.
- How do we know?
Structure = Jesus One true God
Bases on 7 miracles signs Greek Gods
(2) Dionysos – Greek god of wine
(4) Artemis – goddess of children
(5) Asclepios – god of healing
(6) Demeter – goddess of the harvest
(6) Poseidon – god of the sea
(9) Theia –goddess of sight
(11) Hades – god of the dead
Identify the miracles and pick the one that you know the least about skim read it and either illustrate it or summarize it in your own words
So how do we know that John is focusing on Jesus being God?
Audience:
- Probably people who had heard about Jesus
- Because it was written after the synoptic Gospels
- People that were not from Palestine
- Because they did not speak Aramaic or know the places in Jerusalem (John 5:2)
- People that knew the Old Testament
- Because the book starts by alluding to the book of Genesis and he uses “I Am” to identify Jesus as God. To Moses God Said his name was “I am who I am”
- People who knew Greek Religion and Philosophy
- Because the Miracles chose for the book and use of “the Word”
Audience:
- ______________ Greeks
- Jews who had grown up in areas outside of Israel and __________________________________________
And/OR
- Greek _____________
- ______________________________________________________ to the Jewish Religion
Differences from the Synoptic:
- Most of the book is different with only a few accounts of the same stories which have a different perspective
- No _______________ – instead he uses symbolic metaphors and allegories.
- I am the bread of life
- I am the good Shepard
- I am the vine
- I am the light of the world
- I am the way the truth and the life
- I am the resurrection and the life
- I am the door (or gate)
Some of the Unique Teachings:
- The incarnation (God became Man – unique from the other gospels) 1:14-18
- New birth (we must be born again) ch 3
- Bread of life (must receive Jesus)ch 6
Some of the Unique stories:
- Water into ____________ (ch 2)
- Jesus’ talk with Nicodemus (ch 3)
- _______________ woman at the well (ch 4)
- The woman caught in adultery (ch 8)
- Raising of ____________ from the dead (ch 11)
- Jesus washing his disciples feet (ch 13)
Cool Fact about the book
- The one that we have the oldest copies of , meaning the closest to the original.
- The Rylands Fragment of John, an Egyptian papyrus, dates to 135 AD about 50 years after the original was written.
Show me what you learned:
Complete Godbook on John
Lesson Highlights
- John was one of the 12 Apostles and called himself in the book the _____ that Jesus _____________
- We have the oldest _________ of this book
- John _______ his book on 7 ______ of Jesus
- John focused on the fact that Jesus was both a ___________ and ___________
- John wrote to either ________________ Jews or _______________ Greeks or both.
- Very _______________ from the synoptic gospels and has no ______________
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