The Word Became Flesh Week 12 John 5:1-16 “Not Everyone Gets It”
Introduction
…There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away; all alike have become worthless. There is no one who does good, not even one. Romans 3:10-12
The Fifth Chapter of John begins by saying… “After this..”, John is referring to the events of the previous chapter that tells the story of the healing of the nobleman’s son in Cana. Following the second sign miracle in John’s eyewitness account of Jesus in chapter four, John then immediately takes us back to the city of Jerusalem to bear witness to the third sign miracle. It is important to note that Jesus performed many great signs between these two events. You can find several of them recorded in the synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. But under the guiding hand of The Holy Spirit, John has chosen his set of specific events in the three years of Christ’s earthly ministry to convince his readers that Jesus is indeed The Son of God (John 20:31). He goes on to say at the end of his writings that there were “many other things that Jesus did” that were not included in this gospel (John 21:25).