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Would you turn with me to John chapter 2, the very end of the chapter. You and I are

searching some distinctives in the Gospel of John. We've been looking at things like in the

beginning was the Word and the Word was made flesh to dwell among us. The 14th verse tells us.

We looked last week at the only time in scripture in any one of the Gospels that the wedding

in Cana was discussed. The first miracle as Christ turned the water into the wine. Those are the

kinds of things we've been discussing. I am not certain that this one falls

validly into the same category of distinctive kinds of things we'd see in this fourth Gospel.

But it's distinctive to me. I wonder if that counts at all. Is it for some reason? It's something

that I have had highlighted in at least the last three Bibles I've had. And obviously it's

been enough to me that even last week in a discussion I had with Amanda, we were talking on the

telephone and she repeated this verse to me and something that she was up against almost word

for word and I realized obviously these verses have been important to me for a time. What would

God have us learn from them? So I bring this to you today. I'm not sure that this really pulls

itself out as a distinctive in the Gospel of John, but it's distinctive to me. And I think it is

very, very worthy of our consideration. John 2, just a couple of verses this morning. I want to read

23 through 25. I ask you as I read it and as you read it silently, let this thing get in. Let this

thing absorb down into the marrow of our bones and let God minister this word to us. Now it says in

verse 23, John 2, while he and we're talking about Christ was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast.

Many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name, but Jesus would not

entrust himself to them for he knew all men. He did not need men's testimony about man

for he knew what was in a man. It says they believed in his name, but in verse 24, key part for us,

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