Chapter four records a second famous personal conversation with Jesus. He had been spending time around Jerusalem, but decided to leave because he was drawing too much attention from the Pharisees. John 4:4 makes a significant statement: “He had to pass through Samaria.” Geographically, this was not true. Jews frequently traveled around Samaria specifically so […]
Chapter three contains the first, and possibly the most famous, of several personal conversations Jesus had that were recorded by John. Many people have speculated that Nicodemus approached Jesus at night because he was afraid of the other Pharisees or other people, but the text does not offer that picture. In fact, Nicodemus himself admitted,
Chapter two records the first of several miracles found only in John. Contrary to pseudepigraphical books 1 like the Gospel of Thomas, which claim that Jesus did miracles even throughout his childhood, John stated that this wedding in Cana was “the first of his miraculous signs” and how “he revealed his glory” (John 2:11). Not
