What is John chapter 12 all about?

What is John chapter 12 all about?

Six days before Passover is going to start, Jesus heads back down to Bethany to stay with Lazarus and his sisters. They host a dinner party in his honor. After dinner, Mary takes a huge jar of very expensive perfume and pours it all over Jesus’s feet. Then she wipes his feet with her hair.

Why was this perfume not sold and the money given to the poor?

“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages. ” He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob?

Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.

What can we learn from John 13?

In John 13:31-32 Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once” (NIV). If we were doing an entire study on the book of John, we’d start to understand this passage more clearly.

Was Simon the leper Lazarus father?

Simon the Leper is also sometimes identified as the same person as Lazarus of Bethany, or identified as his father or brother. This is because Matthew and Mark mention Simon, while John mentions Lazarus, but all four gospels assume one lodging at Bethany during the last week.

Who assigned John to ask Jesus who was the betrayer?

The Gospel of John states that Jesus confronted Judas at the last supper, telling him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” The Gospels of Luke and John both say that Satan “entered” Judas at certain times and may have influenced his decision to betray Jesus.

What does Jesus on the cross symbolize?

cross, the principal symbol of the Christian religion, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the redeeming benefits of his Passion and death. The cross is thus a sign both of Christ himself and of the faith of Christians.

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