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Systematic Study of the New Testament   Portuguese  Spanish

Year 4 - N° 184 – November 14, 2010

THIAGO BERNARDES
thiago_imortal@yahoo.com.br

Curitiba, Paraná (Brasil)  
Translation
Marcelo Damasceno do Vale - marcellus.vale@gmail.com

 


The Gospel according John

Fourth book of the New Testament 

John (Apostle of Jesus)

 (Part 1)

We continue this issue to the Systematic Study of the New Testament, which includes the study of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the book of Acts. The study is based on the Portuguese version of the New Testament that the reader can see from this link: http://www.bibliaonline.com.br/asv/mc/1

Relevant answers to questions are at the end of the text below. 

Questions 

1. The Gospel of John begins speaking in the Word was with God and who was also God. Who, according to John, is the Word made flesh and dwelt among us?

2. Place where John the Baptist began his mission and announced the coming of Jesus?

3. How, according to John the Evangelist, the first apostles of Jesus knew the Master?

4. Teaching that Jesus imparted to Nicodemus?

5. That response gave it to John the Baptist said that Jesus was also baptizing and everyone went out to him? 

Text for reading 

1. The Gospel of John - The Apostle John, son of Zebedee and Salome, brother of James was greater. When exercised, with his father's occupation as a fisherman, Jesus called to the apostolic ministry, where he distinguished himself by the title of the beloved disciple of Christ. After the Ascension of Jesus, John preached the Gospel in Asia Minor, for which reason it was banished by Domitian to the island of Patmos, where he wrote the Apocalypse. To refute the audacity of heretics who denied the divinity of the mission of Christ, saying that he was a simple man, and also aiming to supply some things that the other three evangelists did not record, John wrote, after them, his Gospel. A contemporary sacred writer says, very properly, that, speaking in modern terms, Luke, Mark and Matthew were "reporters," honest and faithful reporters, placed around the August personality of Jesus. John was the "columnist" who collects the lessons of events. (The Holy Bible, Volume I, Introduction, pp. XXIX and XXX Edition Book of Brazil SA) 

2. John says the Word made all things - "In the beginning - he tells John - was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him nothing was made. In him was life, and life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. "After referring to Jesus as well, says the Evangelist John the Baptist:" There was a man sent from God, whose name was John He came for testimony, that witness of the Light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but to bear witness of that light. " (NR: In your book The Way of Light, written in 1938, Emmanuel Jesus also gives an exceptional mission in our world. Emmanuel means the Master as being the Light of Principle and says his heart is the source of life for all Humanity on Earth. At the direction of all phenomena of our system, according to Emmanuel, there is a Community of Pure Spirits and elected by the Supreme Lord of the Universe. This Community, of which Jesus is a member, met only near the Earth two times: the first, when the terrestrial globe was loose from the solar nebula, the second when he decided to Jesus' coming to Earth. The Master, with his legions of workers divine sculpture operated the geological realm, ruled the regulations of the physical phenomena of Earth, organized the scene of life and made the proper air pressure to the man, thus establishing, always under the eye of God, the great power centers of the ionosphere and the stratosphere, and ozone build the plants at 40 and 60 km altitude so that filtered the sun's rays properly. It is likely that the Evangelist John, who was medium, and the intuition of this whole study coordinated by Jesus, there is also thought that the Messiah was God, a mistake that has no basis in Scripture and, according to Léon Denis, led discussions during three centuries, being rejected by three councils, until in 325 he was elevated to dogma by the Council of Nicaea in these terms: "The Church of God, catholic and apostolic, anathematized those who say There was a time when the Son did not exist, or that did not exist before it has been generated. ") (John 1:1 to 1:8.) 

3. The Word made the world and dwelt among us then - I was there, says the Evangelist John, the true light that enlightens every man that cometh into the world: "He was in the world and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not . He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But to all who received Him, to them gave He power to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor the will of man but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." John the Baptist testified of him and cried, saying that the Master was the one he, John, said: "What comes after me is preferred before me, because I was the first." And we have all received of His fullness, grace upon grace, because the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. God has never been seen by someone. The only begotten Son, which is within the Father, he hath declared him. (John 1:9 to 1:18.) 

4. John saw the Spirit descending like a dove and rest on Jesus - Asked by priests and Levites, not John the Baptist confessed Christ, nor Elijah, nor a prophet. Who are you then? - They wondered. "I am - John answered them - the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah." The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, after me comes a man who was before me, because it was the first for me. And I did not know, but that he might be revealed to Israel, I came, therefore, baptizing with water." And John testified, saying: "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and landing on it. And I do not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. And I saw, and have testified that this is the Son of God." (John 1:19 to 1:34.) 

5. Jesus in Cana, turns water into good wine - The mother of Jesus was the Cana of Galilee attend a wedding, for which Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. At one point the party, the wine is over and his mother told him: "They have no wine." "Woman - Jesus answered him - that to thee? Not yet come to my time. "His mother, however, said the servants who did everything he said. Jesus, pointing to six stone jars that were there, asked them: "Fill the jars with water". Once filled, he asked that bring to the master of ceremonies. Once this has proved the water into wine (not knowing where he came from, though the servants knew it), called the bridegroom, who said: "Everyone makes the best wine first, and when men have well drunk , then the bottom: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. " This is how Jesus began his signs at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory and his disciples believed in him. Afterwards he came down with his mother, his brothers and his disciples to Capernaum, and being close to the Jewish Passover, came to Jerusalem, finding in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep, pigeons and scalpers. The Master made a scourge of small cords and drove them all out of the temple, spreading the changers' money and overthrew the tables. The Jews asked, "What sign can you show us for doing this?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple and in three days raise it up". The Jews replied, "Forty and six years to build this temple, and you raise it up in three days?" Jesus spoke to them, however, the temple of his body. So when he rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that the Master had said. (John 2:1 to 2:22.). 

6. Jesus came not to condemn but to save the world - After answering the question of Nicodemus, Jesus was amazed at his ignorance about the lesson contained in this sentence: "Ye must be born again." He added: "If I told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent not his Son into the world not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light came into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, so that their deeds will be exposed, they are wrought in God. " (John 3:12 to 3:21.) 

7. The Father loves the Son and everything into his hands - John the Baptist, responding to his disciples said to Jesus, saying: "He must increase and I must decrease. He that cometh from above is above all: he that cometh of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all." He added: "He that hath received his testimony has confirmed that God is true. He whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit by measure. The Father loves the Son and all things into his hands. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: but he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. " (John 3:30 to 3:36.) 

Answers to questions 

1. The Gospel of John begins speaking in the Word was with God and who was also God. Who, according to John, is the Word made flesh and dwelt among us? 

The Word made flesh is a direct allusion to Jesus of Nazareth. (John 1:1 to 1:15.) 

2. Place where John the Baptist began his mission and announced the coming of Jesus?

In Bethany beyond the Jordan. (John 1:19 to 1:28.) 

3. How, according to John the Evangelist, the first apostles of Jesus knew the Master?

John the Baptist was with two of his disciples when he saw Jesus. He then said: Behold the Lamb of God. The two disciples heard him speak and followed Jesus. Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, one of the two who heard John and had followed Jesus. Andrew then told his brother Simon: We Have Found the Messiah "(which translated, the Christ) and brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, Thou art Simon son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas (which means Peter). The next day, going to Galilee, Jesus found Philip and said to him: Follow me. Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. (John 1:35 to 1:51.)

4. Teaching that Jesus imparted to Nicodemus?

Nicodemus, who was prince among the Jews, out having to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God, because anyone can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say that unless one is born again he can not see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can it ever to go into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say that unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God. What is born of flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that you have said, Ye must be born again. (John 3:1 to 3:11.)

5. That response gave it to John the Baptist said that Jesus was also baptizing and everyone went out to him?

John had not been thrown in jail when he got the news that Jesus was baptizing and everyone went out to him. John answered them saying: A man can receive nothing, unless it be given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, who said: I am not the Christ but am sent before him. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with the very voice of the bridegroom. Thus, this my joy is fulfilled. He must increase and I must decrease. (John 3:22 to 3:30.)



 


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