John Overview: What is a Sign?

Spoken Gospel

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 552 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

The Gospel of John is structured around seven signs that build toward an eighth—the resurrection of Jesus. To understand what John means by a "sign," David and Christine walk through the biblical story, tracing where and how signs appear in Scripture. From the heavenly lights of creation to the plagues that fell on Egypt, John shows that Jesus' signs reveal that he is God in the flesh who has come to bring new creation and salvation to humanity.

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0:00.0	Well, welcome, everyone to the Spoken Gospel Podcast.
0:05.5	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:06.9	We are continuing our walk through the book of John.
0:09.8	This is our third conversation now.
0:11.5	Yeah?
0:12.5	That's right.
0:13.5	And we've talked about like a high level introduction of the book looking at who is John.
0:17.0	How did he write his gospel?
0:18.3	Why did he write it?
0:19.3	Because he actually tells us why he wrote it. And then we looked at the prologue, the first 18 verses of this famous, gorgeous Bible sweeping. Genealogy of Jesus from before all things were created. He is the word, the Lagos. He dwelt among us. Took on flesh. We talked about so many beautiful things in the last episode.
0:39.5	So if you missed that one, oh boy, I would definitely recommend going back to that one,
0:42.5	at least.
0:43.5	I really enjoyed that.
0:44.3	Today, we get to talk about the signs in John.
0:48.0	And when we were talking about how John is laid out, we kind of sidestepped one of the typical ways that people explain the layout
0:57.1	of the book of John, which the first, what is it, 12 chapters in a sense, kind of two to 12, right,
1:03.7	are the book of signs.
1:06.4	The final one being in chapter 11.
1:08.3	Yes.
1:09.0	Oh, okay.
1:09.4	Yeah, 11.
1:09.9	And so with the death of Lazarus and the
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