JOHN
CHAPTER 5
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
OBSERVATION
STAGE
The purpose of
the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the
normative rules of language, context and logic 
which limits the observer to the content offered by the book of John. This
will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more
importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective
comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in
view.
I)
[Jn 5:1-14]:
A)
JESUS RETURNS TO JERUSALEM AT FEAST TIME. HE HEALS AN INVALID AT
BETHESDA POOL ON THE SABBATH AND AT JESUS' COMMAND THE MAN PICKS UP HIS
PALLET AND WALKS. JEWISH AUTHORITIES PURSUED THEM BOTH FOR ALLEGEDLY
VIOLATING THE SABBATH - THE HEALED MAN FOR CARRYING HIS PALLET, JESUS
FOR HEALING HIM. WHEN CONFRONTED BY THE JEWS, THE MAN, BLAMED JESUS FOR
IT ALL TO AVOID PUNISHMENT FROM THE JEWS. MEANWHILE JESUS SLIPPED AWAY
THROUGH THE CROWDS AND LATER FOUND THE MAN HE HEALED AT THE TEMPLE. HE
TOLD HIM TO SIN NO MORE LEST SOMETHING WORSE HAPPEN WITH A VIEW TO HIS
UNCONSCIONABLE INGRATITUDE
II)
[Jn 5:15-18]:
A)
WHEN THE UNGRATEFUL MAN WHO WAS HEALED AT THE BETHESDA POOL LEFT THE
TEMPLE, HE VOLUNTARILY POINTED JESUS OUT TO THE JEWS AS THE ONE WHO MADE
HIM WELL, EVIDENTLY TO CURRY FAVOR WITH THEM. ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO REAL
VIOLATION OF THE LAW, THE JEWISH LEADERS THOUGHT OTHERWISE, AND SOUGHT
JESUS TO KILL HIM. JESUS' ANSWER REFERRED TO GOD AS HIS FATHER IN A
UNIQUELY INTIMATE WAY ON THE SAME PLANE WITH GOD, MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL
WITH GOD. HE THEN EQUATED THE WORK OF GOD, HIS FATHER, WITH HIS OWN WORK
IN KIND, QUALITY AND DURATION: GOD'S WORK HAS NEVER CEASED FROM THE
BEGINNING - NOT EVEN ON THE SABBATH; AND IT CONSISTS OF WORKS OF GRACE
AND MERCY, OF JUDGMENT, OF MAINTAINING THE UNIVERSE
III)
[Jn 5:19-21]:
A)
JESUS CONFIRMED TO THE JEWS THAT HE WAS CLAIMING EQUALITY WITH GOD WHEN
HE STATED TO THE JEWS THAT HE, THE SON, CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF, BUT
WHAT HE SEES THE FATHER DO; FOR WHATEVER THE FATHER DOES, THE SON ALSO
DOES IN LIKE MANNER. FURTHERMORE, THE FATHER LOVES THE SON AND SHOWS HIM
ALL THINGS THAT HE HIMSELF DOES; AND HE WILL SHOW HIM GREATER WORKS THAN
THESE THAT THE JEWS MAY MARVEL. FOR AS THE FATHER RAISES THE DEAD, SO
THE SON GIVES LIFE TO WHOM HE WILL
IV)
[Jn 5:22-23]:
A)
JESUS STATES FURTHER TO THE JEWS WHO WERE SEEKING HIM THAT THE FATHER
JUDGES NO ONE FOR HE HAS COMMITTED ALL JUDGMENT TO THE SON, MEANING
JESUS HIMSELF, SO THAT ALL SHOULD HONOR THE SON AS THEY HONOR THE FATHER
WHO SENT HIM. HE WHO DOES NOT HONOR THE SON DOES NOT HONOR THE FATHER
V)
[Jn 5:24]:
A)
JESUS SAID, EMPHATICALLY TO THE JEWS, THAT HE WHO HEARS AND BELIEVES IN
HIS MESSAGE THAT GOD SENT HIS SON TO BE AN ATONING SACRIFICE FOR THE
SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE AND SHOULD NOT COME
INTO JUDGMENT, BUT HAS PASSED OUT OF ETERNAL DEATH TO ETERNAL LIFE
VI)
[Jn 5:25-27]:
A)
JESUS EMPHATICALLY DECLARED THAT THE HOUR WAS IMMINENT WHEN THOSE OF THE
DEAD WHO HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD, JESUS - ALL THOSE WHO ARE
BELIEVERS, WILL BE RAISED TO ETERNAL LIFE. FOR JUST AS THE FATHER HAS
LIFE IN HIMSELF, SO HE HAS GIVEN THE SON IN HIS HUMANITY TO HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE IN HIMSELF. FURTHERMORE, GOD GAVE HIS SON AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE
JUDGMENT BECAUSE HE, JESUS, IS THE SON OF MAN
1)
[Compare Jn 1:1-4]:
*** EXCERPT
FROM JOHN CHAPTER ONE RE: JESUS AS THE SON OF MAN ***
..................................OR
SKIP TO THE NEXT SECTION
AS
JOHN THE BAPTIST CONTINUED TO ANNOUNCE JESUS AS THE LAMB OF GOD, ANDREW
AND ANOTHER DISCIPLE OF JOHN BEGAN TO FOLLOW JESUS. SIMON PETER, PHILIP
AND NATHANAEL JOIN THEM. DECLARATIONS ARE MADE OF FINDING THE MESSIAH IN
JESUS, AND THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD AND KING OF ISRAEL. DUE TO
NATHANAEL'S REMARKABLE FAITH IN HIM, JESUS SAYS TO NATHANAEL: "HEREAFTER
YOU SHALL SEE HEAVEN OPEN, AND THE ANGELS OF GOD ASCENDING AND
DESCENDING UPON THE SON OF MAN"
1)
[Compare Jn 1:38 Greek]:
2)
[Compare Gen 28:10-12]:
3)
[Compare Dan 7:9-14]:
4)
[Compare Ps 80:14-17]:
*** END OF EXCERPT FROM
JOHN CHAPTER ONE ***
VII)
[Jn 5:28-30]:
A)
JESUS TELLS THE JEWS NOT TO MARVEL (NOT TO QUESTION) THAT THE FATHER HAS
GIVEN THE SON - HIMSELF - ALL AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT UPON ALL
MANKIND; FOR HE SAID THAT AN HOUR WAS COMING WHEN THIS WILL BE
MANIFESTED - WHEN ALL WHO REMAIN IN THE GRAVE, (EVERY UNBELIEVER), WILL
HEAR HIS VOICE AND COME FORTH - THOSE WHO DID NOTHING BUT GOOD DEEDS TO
A RESURRECTION OF ETERNAL LIFE, (WHICH WILL BE NONE OF THEM); THOSE WHO
HAVE COMMITTED ANY EVIL DEED TO A RESURRECTION OF ETERNAL CONDEMNATION,
(WHICH WILL BE ALL OF THEM). HIS JUDGMENT WILL NOT BE OF HIS OWN ACCORD,
FOR HE IS NOT ABLE OF HIMSELF TO DO ANYTHING BUT THAT WHICH IS ACCORDING
TO THE WILL OF THE FATHER WHO SENT HIM. AS HE HEARS THE WILL OF GOD, HE
JUDGES ACCORDINGLY. HIS JUDGMENT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHTEOUS, BECAUSE IT IS
THE JUDGMENT OF GOD
VIII)
[Jn 5:31-47]:
A)
JESUS SAID TO THE JEWS WHO WERE SEEKING TO KILL HIM THAT IF HE BORE
WITNESS OF HIMSELF, (ALTHOUGH ACCURATE), IT WOULD NOT BE TRUE IN THE
SENSE OF IT BEING VALID TESTIMONY.
HE
THEN SAID THAT ANOTHER BORE WITNESS OF HIM WHOSE WITNESS HE HAD KNOWN
WAS TRUE: JOHN THE BAPTIST, TO WHOM THE JEWS WERE SENT TO INVESTIGATE.
BUT
JESUS SAID HE RECEIVED TESTIMONY FROM NO MAN, FOR ONLY HIS FATHER'S
TESTIMONY WILL DO. HE SAID THESE THINGS BECAUSE THERE WAS GREATER
TESTIMONY FROM THE FATHER WHICH THE JEWS MIGHT CHOOSE TO BELIEVE AND BE
SAVED; FOR JOHN WAS THE BURNING AND SHINING LAMP OF TRUTH; BUT THE JEWS
WERE ONLY WILLING FOR A WHILE TO REJOICE IN HIS LIGHT UNTIL THEY FOUND
OUT THAT HE WAS NOT THE CHRIST, OR THE PROPHET WHO WAS TO COME. SO THE
JEWS REJECTED JESUS' AND JOHN'S TESTIMONY.
HENCE
JESUS DECLARED THAT HE HAD GREATER TESTIMONY THAN JOHN'S - THE FATHER'S:
THE
WORKS THAT HE DID WHICH THE FATHER HAD GIVEN HIM TO FINISH BORE WITNESS
OF WHO HE WAS - THAT THE FATHER HAD SENT HIM;
AND JESUS
SAID THAT THE FATHER WHO SENT HIM TESTIFIED OF HIM.
SINCE THE
JEWS NEITHER BELIEVED THAT THE WORKS HE PERFORMED WERE GIVEN TO HIM BY THE
FATHER TO DO, NOR BELIEVED THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHOM GOD SENT SO THAT THEY
MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; JESUS CONCLUDED THAT THE JEWS HAD NEITHER HEARD
THE FATHER'S VOICE NOR SEEN HIS FORM, NOR HAD THEY HIS WORD ABIDING IN
THEM IN THE SENSE OF IT OPERATING IN THEIR LIVES.
HE SAID
THAT THEY SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES THINKING THAT IT WOULD BRING THEM
ETERNAL LIFE - SCRIPTURES WHICH TESTIFIED ABOUT JESUS WHOM THEY WERE
UNWILLING TO COME TO SO THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
JESUS SAID
THAT HE WAS NOT MOTIVATED TO SEEK GLORY FROM MAN BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT THE
CHARACTER OF MAN WAS NOT TRUSTWORTHY. HE DECLARED THAT THE JEWISH
AUTHORITIES DID NOT HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD IN THEM. HE RECEIVED GLORY FROM
GOD AND HE CAME IN HIS FATHER'S NAME AND YET THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM. BUT
IF ANOTHER CAME IN HIS OWN NAME, THE JEWS WOULD RECEIVE HIM. HE DECLARED
IN A RHETORICAL QUESTION, 'HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE WHEN YOU RECEIVE GLORY FROM
ONE ANOTHER AND DO NOT SEEK THE GLORY THAT IS FROM THE ONE AND ONLY GOD?'
IN
CONCLUSION, JESUS SAID FOR THEM NOT TO THINK THAT HE WOULD ACCUSE THEM
BEFORE THE FATHER, FOR THE ONE WHO ACCUSES THEM IS MOSES, IN WHOM THEY
HAVE SET THEIR HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE. IF THEY HAD BELIEVED IN MOSES, THEY
WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IN JESUS, BECAUSE MOSES WROTE CONCERNING JESUS. AND
SINCE THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE WRITINGS OF MOSES, HOW WOULD THEY
BELIEVE IN JESUS' WORDS? =
1)
[Compare Jn 5:19 NKJV]:
2)
[Compare Jn 2:23-25]:
CONTINUE
TO CHAPTER 6 
