Chapter nineteen continues the morning’s events, skipping Jesus’ short appearance before Herod (Luke 23:6-12). The fifth event in John’s record, then, was Pilate’s second interview with Jesus (John 19:1-16). Still unable to find any reason to execute him, Pilate had him beaten and humiliated instead, hoping that would satisfy the crowd, but it did not. It […]
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
Chapter twenty-four begins with the resurrection, with basically the same detail that the other Gospel writers included (vs. 1-12). However, the rest of the chapter is unique to Luke. As two of his followers slowly walked back home to Emmaus on Sunday, “about seven miles from Jerusalem” (vs. 13), Jesus appeared to them, but they
