Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Identify the various witnesses throughout John’s Gospel

• Illustrate the variety of ways John’s Gospel keeps pressing forward to Jesus’ passion

• Describe the dualism in John’s Gospel

• Explain the general sense of “the Jews” throughout John’s Gospel

• Illustrate how John’s Gospel uses three key Jewish festivals

• Describe the “remnant” theology of John’s Gospel

• Describe the nature of sacramentalism in John’s Gospel

• Illustrate the use of misunderstanding and irony throughout John’s Gospel

• Analyze the theology of the Holy Spirit in John’s Gospel

• Summarize the range of Jesus’ “I am” statements

• Illustrate how John’s Gospel talks of unity between the Father and the Son and between Jesus and believers

• Explain and illustrate what it means to “believe” in John’s Gospel

• Summarize the arguments for date, authorship, and audience for John’s Gospel

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Background

• Introduction

• Using the Clause Participants Section in the Bible Word Study Tool

• What Is John?

• Why Did John Write?

• Using Greek Searching to Discover the Form of Faith in John’s Gospel

• How John Wrote: Elements of His Plot, Part 1

• How John Wrote: Elements of His Plot, Part 2

• How John Wrote: Elements of His Plot, Part 3

• How John Wrote: Elements of His Plot, Part 4

• Seven Exegetical Questions

• Major Narrative Divisions

Unit 2: Initial Presentation (John 1:1–4:54)

• Prologue: Introduction

• Prologue: Historical-Cultural Background

• Prologue: Setting, Characters, and Key Terms

• Prologue: Theological Ideas

• Creating a Syntax Query to Discover the Greatness of Grace

• Gospel of John’s Christology

• John the Baptist’s Testimony about Jesus

• Jesus Calls His First Disciples

• John and Jesus’ Disciples: Historical-Cultural Background

• John and Jesus’ Disciples: Characters and Function

• John and Jesus’ Disciples: Key Terms and Theological Ideas

• Filtering a Bible to Display Only Verses on a Specific Topic

• Wedding at Cana: Setting in the Larger Narrative

• Exploring John’s Chronology with Inline Searching

• Wedding at Cana: The Story and Its Meaning

• Jesus Cleanses the Temple

• Historical-Cultural Background of John 2

• Function and Theology of John 2

• Nicodemus Visits Jesus: Setting

• Nicodemus Visits Jesus: Insufficient Faith

• John’s Final Testimony to Christ

• Nicodemus: Historical-Cultural Background, Part 1

• Nicodemus: Historical-Cultural Background, Part 2

• Nicodemus: Function in the Larger Framework of John

• Nicodemus: Key Terms and Theological Ideas

• Gospel of John’s Theology of Discipleship and the Church

• Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

• Jesus Heals an Official’s Son in Galilee

• Historical-Cultural Background of John 4

• Theological Ideas of John 4

• Gospel of John’s Theology of Salvation

Unit 3: Intensifying Polarization (John 5:1–10:42)

• Introduction: Jewish Festival Cycle

• Using Different Tools to Study Feasts in the Gospel of John

• Jesus and the Sabbath: Introduction

• Jesus and the Sabbath: Historical-Cultural Background

• Jesus and the Sabbath: Theology

• Event: Jesus Testing His Disciples

• Teaching: Jesus Teaching about True Discipleship

• Response: The Disciples Responding to Jesus

• Function of John 6

• Key Terms of John 6

• Using the Clause Search to Find Instances of God Gathering Israel

• Theological Ideas of John 6

• Gospel of John’s Sacramentalism

• Jesus and the Festival of Tabernacles: Introduction

• Festival of Tabernacles: Conflict over Jesus’ Identity

• A Pause: Woman Caught in Adultery, Part 1

• A Pause: Woman Caught in Adultery, Part 2

• Festival of Tabernacles: Rejection of Jesus’ Self-Revelation

• Festival of Tabernacles: Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind

• Festival of Tabernacles: Jesus as the Good Shepherd

• Festival of Tabernacles: Summary

• Searching for the “I Am” Statements in John

• Festival of Tabernacles: Key Terms

• Festival of Tabernacles: Theological Ideas

• Festival of Dedication: Historical-Cultural Background

• Festival of Dedication

• Festival of Dedication: Function and Theological Ideas

Unit 4: Final Presentation and Private Preparation (John 11:1–17:26)

• Death and Resurrection of Lazarus: Context and Characters

• Death and Resurrection of Lazarus: Function

• Jesus’ Impending Death: Place in the Larger Framework of John

• Jesus’ Impending Death: Function and Key Terms

• Jesus’ Impending Death: Theological Ideas

• Gospel of John’s Theology of Atonement

• Using the Bible Sense Lexicon to Find Animals Used for Sin Offerings

• Private Preparation: Context

• Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

• Gift of Bread for a Betrayer

• Jesus’ Words about His Departure: Part 1

• Jesus’ Words about Abiding and Loving

• Jesus’ Words about His Departure: Part 2

• Jesus’ Words about His Departure: Function

• Gospel of John’s Theology of the Holy Spirit

• Finding the Trinity Using an Inline Search and Visual Filters

• Jesus’ Prayer before His Arrest

• Jesus’ Prayer before His Arrest: Function and Theology

Unit 5: Climactic Passion, Resurrection, and Epilogue (John 18:1–21:25)

• Jesus’ Arrest, the Priest’s Interrogation, and Peter’s Denial

• Pilate’s Interrogation and Jesus’ Kingdom

• Jesus’ Crucifixion, Death, and Burial

• Jesus’ Crucifixion, Death, and Burial: Function and Theology

• Jesus’ Post-Resurrection Appearances

• John’s Epilogue

• Jesus’ Post-Resurrection Appearances: Function

• Using Factbook and Visual Copy to Create a Custom Bible Introduction Presentation

• Gospel of John: Jesus and the Beloved Apostle

• Gospel of John: Old Look/New Look

• Gospel of John: Authorship

• Researching the Reliability of John’s Gospel with the Factbook

• Gospel of John: Audience and Date

• Gospel of John: A Jewish Gospel

Conclusion

• Review

Details

• Title: NT323 Book Study: The Gospel of John

• Instructor: Joel Willitts

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 11