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This is the Join the Journey podcast.

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My name is Kyle Aaron, and I get to serve here at Watermark as the men's Bible study director.

I'm subbing in for Emma today as we covered John chapter 18 to 21.

And it is a joy to get to just jump in to the end of John's gospel.

And right off the jump, as we're finishing the gospel, we see chapter 18,

Jesus is leaving the upper room. And as he's leaving the

upper room, I think something that we can see in these four chapters as we're finishing up is it goes

really fast. So from chapters 13 to 17, as we all read yesterday and this week, we see that

John spends an immense amount of time in one

evening. But then chapters 18 to 21, we go over several days. And we go straight into Jesus'

betrayal, his arrest. We see Peter's denial. And then Jesus goes before Pilot, and Pilot thinks that he has

authority. Jesus is, hey, no, you actually, the only authority you have has been given to you. And Jesus is then

delivered to be crucified. We see the crucifixion. And John just flies through these last chapters.

And then the resurrection, we get some stories that we don't necessarily

get in the other three Gospels. And it's just a lightning pace, especially compared to what we've

been in the last couple of days. And what I want to focus on right here is John chapter 20, verse 30 and

31. And it says this, that Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples,

which are not written in this book, but these are written so that you may believe that

Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

And as we're going and we're studying the Bible, a helpful thing that

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