The Bible Study Podcast, episode 348.

Today, the Bible Study podcast concludes the study of the Gospel of John.

Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

This should be the last episode, the 27th episode in our study of the gospel of John. We'll talk about where to go next at the end of this episode. This is John 20 and it is Easter. It is the empty tomb and this is the point of the gospel. Even though John is telling the story that he knows his readers have already heard,

this really is the point of the gospel, and this is really the point of all four gospels,

is the empty tomb.

And so we start in verse one.

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the

tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon

Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved and said, they have taken the Lord out of the

tomb, and we don't know where they have put him. So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.

Both were running, but the other

disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen

lying there, but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the

tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around

Jesus'

head. The cloth was still lying in place, separate from the linen. Finally, the other

disciple who had reached the tomb first also went inside. He saw and believed. They still did not

understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back

to where they were staying.

So this is John's account, and we believe John, of course, being the other disciple, whenever that is mentioned, the disciple whom Jesus loved. He says that not because Jesus didn't love

the other disciples, but that I think is how he sees himself. And I really hope that is the

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