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John’s gospel is noteworthy for the confident and triumphal demeanor of its central character. In John’s gospel, Jesus is a victor, not a victim. But the evangelist cannot avoid the historical fact that Jesus was (...)

Just as the central New Testament story of Jesus’ death and resurrection comes to us in four different versions (the four Gospels), so the central Old Testament story of the exodus and Red Sea event (...)

Stories of Jesus feeding huge crowds with only a little were an important part of the earliest traditions of Jesus’ followers. Matthew’s Gospel includes two near-duplicate stories (see also Matthew 15:32-39) which are close parallels (...)

This abbreviated reading from the Gospel of John has already been heard as the Gospel lesson for the second Sunday of Easter (20:19-31). On the Sunday after Easter the focus is on “doubting” Thomas, a (...)

Though Luke 24:51 intimates it, Acts 1:9 is the only place in the New Testament that graphically depicts the Lord’s ascension. The surrounding text is a semicolon between two exclamation points: Jesus’ resurrection (Luke 24:1-49) (...)

Chapters 14-17 are known as Jesus’ Farewell Discourse. In it, he takes his disciples aside and prepares them for his departure, instructing them, warning them, and equipping them. The Discourse ends with his Farewell Prayer (...)

Lovers of the literal, maligners of metaphor, beware!: This passage is not for you. Or, maybe this passage is especially for you. Here John showcases Jesus’ habit of conveying truth not propositionally, but poetically. Jesus (...)

Moments of recognition in film and literature almost always stir an audience. Characters stumble into realizing whom they really love or who has committed a crime, and from those points storylines head in new directions. (...)

Peter tells an audience in Jerusalem that the resurrected Jesus reigns at God’s right hand, and that Jesus’ ministry continues through his followers, in the power of the Holy Spirit. He delivers the sermon on (...)

Preaching on John 9:1-41 reminds me of the children’s book A Fish Out of Water, not because of the moral lesson of closely listening to the instructions of persons who know much more than you (...)