Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is Kristen and my name is Katie and we want to spend a few minutes a day with you walking through the New Testament one chapter at a time. This year we will fix our gaze upon Christ so that we may know him, not only with our minds but with our hearts.

Together we will learn that who Jesus is changes everything. Hello, and welcome

back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is Katie, and I am so excited to continue on the

journey through the Gospel of John with you today. We will be studying John 5. Let's dive in. In John 4, we found ourselves

in Galilee, and today John takes us back to Jerusalem. It's possible that a large amount of time

happened between the last time Jesus was in Jerusalem when he spoke with Nicodemus and cleansed the

temple. Jesus is back for another festival,

though this festival is unnamed. While he's in Jerusalem, the tension between Jesus and the Pharisees

begins to rise. Jesus will reveal himself to be what John has taught readers all along, God in flesh.

And for this reason, Jesus will clash with the Pharisees until the religious leaders are yelling, crucify him, submitting him to a gruesome death on the cross.

But the chapter does not begin in the temple with the Pharisees. Instead, it begins with a man who has been disabled for 38 years.

By the way, you may have noticed in your Bible that John 5 skips from verse 3 to John 5 verse 5. Where is verse 4?

Well, scholars believe that verse 4 was added later on by scribe and was not a part of

the original text, so we will exclude it from our conversation. This disabled man was coming to the

pool because he believed that an angel might stir up the waters and that the first one in would be

healed. But time after time, others beat him to the water.

This man likely felt frustrated and hopeless.

Have you ever felt these feelings?

What is remarkable about this man is that he does not seek Jesus out in faith like many

of those who are healed by Jesus.

Instead, Jesus seeks him out.

There's no specific reason given, simply the sovereign understanding of God chose to have this

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