The Twist family studies the Gospel of John

[Wayne]

He then goes on north home to Galilee. Many of the people of Galilee had also been in Judea and witnessed the recent events. They seem to be favorably impressed, and are asking for him to perform more miracles for them.

A man from Cana asks Jesus to heal his son who is mortally ill. Jesus seems annoyed that people will only believe in the principles he is teaching if he performs miracles for them

Just the same, he tells the man that his son back in Cana has been healed, and he can go home.

On the way home, the man meets servants coming toward him; it turns out his son was healed at exactly the hour that Jesus said he had been healed!     

Up to this point, still nothing about the gays!   

And here endeth our reading of John chapter 4.     

[Shakesthecoffecan]

John 1 goes on to say Jesus recruits his first apostles at and soon after John's baptism ceremony.

One of them, Nathaniel, is impressed that Jesus had seen him under a fig tree. I don't see yet what this is about, but it seemed to be a big deal to Nathaniel. Any thoughts?

The fig tree sure does seem to occure frequently. I wonder why that is. Maybe it was just prevalent.

[fritzkep]

Don't have much to say here, but I am really enjoying the discussions in this and previous threads! Thanks, Widge!

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Do you think He-brew men drank a lot of beer?

[Wayne]

He-brew

  He Brew, the Manly Beer!!   

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[Wayne]

enjoying

    Yay!  Join in Fritzl  !!

[Front-Ranger]

Can we backtrack a little? I have a question about John 3:10. Is this the famous "whosoever" in the King James Bible??

[Wayne]

Tell us more Front Range!         The famous whosoever?

I googled "whosoever" and guess what ... the first site that comes up ...

[Wayne]

OK here we are at John 5. Jesus is going to Jerusalem for a feast again. The minor point here is that whole communities of Galileans went to Jerusalem for feasts a lot.

The more intriguing point is that most of what the narrator of the gospel of "John" (whoever that person was) seems to know about Jesus concerns those times that Jesus was going to Jerusalem for feasts. So it seems that this person probably was not from Galilee but from Jerusalem or the nearby area.

So this make me think it was not the Apostle John, who was from Galilee.

[Wayne]

Jesus heals a paralyzed man at the pool of Bethesda. One cool thing is that the twon of Bethesda, Maryland is named for Bethesda, and is the location of the US National Institutes of Health. Health is what the old Bethesda was all about - even though the description of it sounds superstitious. "from time to time an angel would come and stir the waters, and whoever stepped in the pool first would be healed of whatever illness or infirmity they had."

Another cool  thing is that the ruins of Bethesda can still be seen in Jerusalem. Here they are. The second one is being excavated. Looks like a long way down ...