2025 Bible Study Group

[Gazza]

Chapter 20 verse 16. Can you possibly imagine how Mary felt when Jesus said to her…… Mary. Every time I read this verse I get goosebumps and a twinkle in my eye.

 

[GodfatherPartTwo]

John 19

26When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27Then He said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his home.

Jesus entrusted the care of Mary to John. I see no warrant to over-mystify this text to make Mary out to be a mother figure for all the Church when John doesn't argue this way nor is that kind of sentiment to be found anywhere else in the New Testament.

30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

It is finished. It is accomplished. What was accomplished? Your salvation if you are one believing in Jesus Christ. Some people would have Jesus say "It has begun." How do you have assurance of your salvation? When you look at the finished work of Christ on the cross, knowing that He died for you, how can you not have assurance that God, who did not even spare His own Son, will not also freely give to you all things?

34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

John will use this again in 1 John 5:

6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth. 7For there are three that bear witness: 8the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

John is always implicitly arguing against the Docetic view that Jesus was not truly human, but only seemed to be so. What would've been bewildering in John's day is not the water coming out, but the blood coming out. This is all to emphasize Jesus's human nature.

 

[Wutang]

I read something regarding the water pouring out of Jesus's side is supposed to be symbolic of the pouring of the water around the Tabernacle during the times of the wandering Israelites.