14 His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire. 15 His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters. 16 In His right hand He held seven stars… […]
The differences between Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John have for centuries puzzled commentators. Some labored hard to reconcile every jot and tittle, while others reached the conclusion that John contradicts the Synoptics. Many commentators are situated between these positions. They recognized that essentially the Gospels tell one story about Jesus. They also recognized that some of the crucial differences cannot be dismissed nor should they be ignored. In addition to the absence of the incident with the Samaritan woman from the Synoptics, there is another significant feature in which the Synoptics and John part company. John states that the reason Jesus did not return to Judea, but went on to Galilee, was because “Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland (literally fatherland in the sense of motherland in English language).” (4.43) What is of course striking here is that John names Judea as Jesus’ homeland, his fatherland, where he belonged, and not Galilee as do the Synoptics (Mt 13:54-57, Mk. 6.1-4, Lk. 4.23-24). It is likely that the Synoptics treat Galilee, the place of Jesus’ upbringing, as the fatherland. For John, however, Jesus is Judean because of his birth in Bethlehem of Judea.
TL;DR: The Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem, mentioned in John 5, may have functioned as a healing shrine to the Greek god Asclepius, and its archaeological discovery helped confirm the historical reliability of the Gospel of John. The Pool of Bethesda as a healing center of Greek-god Asclepius (John 5) 1 Some time later, Jesus went up […]
The Robe of Jesus the High Priest (by Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg and Peter Shirokov) 13 … I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash. The description of the Son of Man’s clothing is consistent with his priestly duties (though different […]
Jesus as the High Priest of the Heavenly Tabernacle in Rev. 1:10-13 (by Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg and Peter Shirokov) 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, 11 saying: “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus, […]
Twelve new leaders for twelve old tribes (John 13:1-20) 1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. For better viewing click HERE. After the […]
1:9 I, John, your brother and the one who shares with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus. Once God Almighty spoke his very brief words, John identified himself as the next speaker. In a […]
1:4 John to the seven churches that are in the province of Asia: While the book of Revelation is an apocalypse when it comes to its genre, it is not a pure apocalypse (1) in that it is set in the context of a letter. We can see this clearly in the following verses. The […]
Rev. 1:3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. As we continue to slowly walk through the book of Revelation, we will repeatedly see that the book is not a sporadically […]
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, 2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Rev. […]
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