APPENDIX 3: ACTIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF JESUS IN JOHN’S GOSPEL
© Rosemary Bardsley 2009
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Action/activity |
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References to his pre-incarnation work, his divine work and his divine knowledge |
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1:3 1:10 |
Creation of all that exists Creation of the world |
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2:24-25; 4:29 |
Knows what is in a man Knows everything we do |
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2:11,23 4:54 |
Did miraculous signs |
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4:34 6:38 8:29 |
Does the will of God Came to do the will of him who sent me Always does what pleases him |
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4:34 |
Finishes God’s work |
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5:19 |
Does what the Father does |
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5:22,27 8:15-16 8:25 9:39 12:30 12:47-50 15:22,24 |
All judgment Authority to judge Doesn’t judge, but if he does his judgement is right because he stands with the Father Has much to say in judgment on you For judgment I came into this world … Now is the time for judgment on this world [Death of Christ = judgment on this world] Christ does not judge but the words he speaks both judge and condemn those who reject him, for they are the words the Father commanded him to say The presence, preaching and miracles of Christ render those who do not believe guilty |
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10:25 10:32 |
Does miracles in his Father’s name Showed many great miracles from the Father |
Role of the miraculous; see also 5:36; 10:32-38; 11:4,14,40-42,45-48; 12:18,19,37;14:11;15:24 |
10:37-38 |
Does what his Father does |
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References to his work of revelation |
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1:4,9 1:5 |
Gives life and light to men Shines in the darkness |
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3:11,33 8:38,40 15:15 |
Speaks of what he knows and has seen Teaches what he has seen in the Father’s presence Made known to us everything he learned from his Father |
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3:34 14:24 |
Speaks the words of God |
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6:63 |
Speaks words that are Spirit and life |
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6:68 |
Has the words of eternal life |
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7:16-17 8:26,28 12:50 |
Teaches what comes from God Says just what the Father has told him to say |
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18:37 |
… for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth |
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17:6 |
Revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world |
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17:14 |
Given them your word |
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References to his work of salvation |
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1:29 |
Takes away the sin of the world |
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1:33 |
Baptizes with the Holy Spirit |
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3:17 |
Not to condemn the world |
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Save the world |
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4:10-14 |
Gives living water |
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5:21 |
Gives life to whom he is pleased to give it |
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6:27 |
Gives the food that endures to eternal life |
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6:51 |
… my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world |
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10:3-30 |
Calls his own sheep by name Leads them Goes ahead of them Lays down his life for them Knows his sheep Gives them eternal life |
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10:18 |
Lays down his life and takes it up again Has the authority to do both |
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12:32 |
Draws men to himself |
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12:46 |
Came into the world as a light so that no one who believes in him should stay in darkness |
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12:47 |
Came to save the world |
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13:1 |
Loved his own … showed the full extent of his love |
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14:2,3 |
Goes to prepare a place for us, than will come again and take us to be with him |
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14:16ff; 15:26; 16:7 |
Sends the Holy Spirit to the believers |
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15:16; 15:19 |
Chose us and appointed us Chosen us out of the world |
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17:2 |
… authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him |
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17:19 |
For them I sanctify myself |
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17:22 |
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one |
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References to his divine origin |
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3:13 |
Went into heaven Came from heaven |
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6:46 |
Has seen the Father |
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6:32-58; 8:42 |
Came from heaven Came from God and sent by God |
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8:14 |
Knows where he came from and where he is going |
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8:55; 10:15 |
Knows the Father |
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13:3 |
Knew the Father had put all things under his power , that he had come from God, that he was returning to God |
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16:28 |
Came from the Father and entered the world, leaving the world and going back to the Father |
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References expressing the obedience of Christ |
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5:17 |
Works as the Father works |
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8:49 |
Honours his Father |
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8:50 |
Does not seek glory for himself |
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8:55 |
Keeps the Father’s word |
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14:13 |
The Son brings glory to the Father |
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16:30 |
I have overcome the world |
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17:1,4 |
Glorifies the Father |
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17:4 |
Completed the work his Father gave him to do |
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18:11 |
… drink the cup the Father has given me |