Gospel of John bible study chapters 7 through 12

 

            I am doing the middle chapters of John’s gospel from 7 through 12 as a bible study. They have many important teachings, including I AM and other teachings and a couple of very important miracles such as the blind man seeing for the first time and especially Lazarus raised from the dead, after being dead for no less than four days. This can be done as a stand alone study, just these six chapters or this can be part of an integrated study perhaps of the entire gospel.

I am giving a link here to the first six chapters of John so you can go ahead and study them first before you go here to study these, if that is what you want to do

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In chapter 7 Jesus talks about Himself, His purposes, stating how and why the world hates Him and otherwise witnesses to the Jews about how even living waters can flow:

(John 7:1)  After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

 

(John 7:2)  Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand.

 

(John 7:3)  So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.

 

(John 7:4)  For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."

 

(John 7:5)  For not even his brothers believed in him.

 

(John 7:6)  Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

 

(John 7:7)  The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

 

(John 7:8)  You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."

 

(John 7:9)  After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

 

(John 7:10)  But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.

 

(John 7:11)  The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"

 

(John 7:12)  And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, "He is a good man," others said, "No, he is leading the people astray."

 

(John 7:13)  Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

 

(John 7:14)  About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.

 

(John 7:15)  The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?"

 

(John 7:16)  So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

 

(John 7:17)  If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.

 

(John 7:18)  The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

 

(John 7:19)  Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"

 

(John 7:20)  The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"

 

(John 7:21)  Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel at it.

 

(John 7:22)  Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

 

(John 7:23)  If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?

 

(John 7:24)  Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."

 

(John 7:25)  Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, "Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?

 

(John 7:26)  And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?

 

(John 7:27)  But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from."

 

(John 7:28)  So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.

 

(John 7:29)  I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."

 

(John 7:30)  So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

 

(John 7:31)  Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, "When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

 

(John 7:32)  The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

 

(John 7:33)  Jesus then said, "I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

 

(John 7:34)  You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come."

 

(John 7:35)  The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

 

(John 7:36)  What does he mean by saying, 'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

 

(John 7:37)  On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

 

(John 7:38)  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"

 

(John 7:39)  Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

 

(John 7:40)  When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This really is the Prophet."

 

(John 7:41)  Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

 

(John 7:42)  Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

 

(John 7:43)  So there was a division among the people over him.

 

(John 7:44)  Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

 

(John 7:45)  The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

 

(John 7:46)  The officers answered, "No one ever spoke like this man!"

 

(John 7:47)  The Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deceived?

 

(John 7:48)  Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?

 

(John 7:49)  But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed."

 

(John 7:50)  Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,

 

(John 7:51)  "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"

 

(John 7:52)  They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee."

 

(John 7:53)  [[They went each to his own house,

 

In this chapter Jesus deals with the adulterous woman, essentially forgiving her, then tells how that He is the light of the world, and how that Jesus can free anyone of any sin, bondage, stronghold or anything else that holds them captive, at the end of the chapter He even says how He was before Abraham, at which the Jews get angry and want to stone Jesus

(John 8:1)  but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

 

(John 8:2)  Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

 

(John 8:3)  The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst

 

(John 8:4)  they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.

 

(John 8:5)  Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"

 

(John 8:6)  This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

 

(John 8:7)  And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

 

(John 8:8)  And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.

 

(John 8:9)  But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

 

(John 8:10)  Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

 

(John 8:11)  She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."]]

 

(John 8:12)  Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

 

(John 8:13)  So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true."

 

(John 8:14)  Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

 

(John 8:15)  You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

 

(John 8:16)  Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.

 

(John 8:17)  In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.

 

(John 8:18)  I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me."

 

(John 8:19)  They said to him therefore, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

 

(John 8:20)  These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

 

(John 8:21)  So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

 

(John 8:22)  So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?"

 

(John 8:23)  He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

 

(John 8:24)  I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins."

 

(John 8:25)  So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.

 

(John 8:26)  I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

 

(John 8:27)  They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.

 

(John 8:28)  So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

 

(John 8:29)  And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

 

(John 8:30)  As he was saying these things, many believed in him.

 

(John 8:31)  So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

 

(John 8:32)  and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

 

(John 8:33)  They answered him, "We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, 'You will become free'?"

 

(John 8:34)  Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

 

(John 8:35)  The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.

 

(John 8:36)  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

 

(John 8:37)  I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.

 

(John 8:38)  I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

 

(John 8:39)  They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,

 

(John 8:40)  but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

 

(John 8:41)  You are doing the works your father did." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father--even God."

 

(John 8:42)  Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

 

(John 8:43)  Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

 

(John 8:44)  You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

 

(John 8:45)  But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

 

(John 8:46)  Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

 

(John 8:47)  Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God."

 

(John 8:48)  The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

 

(John 8:49)  Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

 

(John 8:50)  Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.

 

(John 8:51)  Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."

 

(John 8:52)  The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

 

(John 8:53)  Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?"

 

(John 8:54)  Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.'

 

(John 8:55)  But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.

 

(John 8:56)  Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad."

 

(John 8:57)  So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

 

(John 8:58)  Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."

 

(John 8:59)  So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

 

In chapter 9, Jesus then heals the man blind from birth, telling him to wash at Siloam, and when he obeys the command, he returns seeing for the first time ever. The Jews hate that fact because it happened on another Sabbath day, on which they Jews believe no work should be done, not even healing someone. They persecute the man who had his sight restored and the Pharisees then basically cast the man out/excommunicate him from the synagogue where he was attending. Jesus then asked if he believed and the healed man said he did, and the healed man also worshipped Jesus, too.

(John 9:1)  As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

 

(John 9:2)  And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

 

(John 9:3)  Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

 

(John 9:4)  We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

 

(John 9:5)  As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

 

(John 9:6)  Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud

 

(John 9:7)  and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

 

(John 9:8)  The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

 

(John 9:9)  Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the man."

 

(John 9:10)  So they said to him, "Then how were your eyes opened?"

 

(John 9:11)  He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed and received my sight."

 

(John 9:12)  They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know."

 

(John 9:13)  They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.

 

(John 9:14)  Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

 

(John 9:15)  So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

 

(John 9:16)  Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them.

 

(John 9:17)  So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."

 

(John 9:18)  The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

 

(John 9:19)  and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

 

(John 9:20)  His parents answered, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

 

(John 9:21)  But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself."

 

(John 9:22)  (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)

 

(John 9:23)  Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

 

(John 9:24)  So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

 

(John 9:25)  He answered, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see."

 

(John 9:26)  They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

 

(John 9:27)  He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?"

 

(John 9:28)  And they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

 

(John 9:29)  We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."

 

(John 9:30)  The man answered, "Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.

 

(John 9:31)  We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

 

(John 9:32)  Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.

 

(John 9:33)  If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

 

(John 9:34)  They answered him, "You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?" And they cast him out.

 

(John 9:35)  Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

 

(John 9:36)  He answered, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"

 

(John 9:37)  Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you."

 

(John 9:38)  He said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.

 

(John 9:39)  Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."

 

(John 9:40)  Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

 

(John 9:41)  Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains.

 

In chapter 10 Jesus says both He is the door to which His sheep can enter as well as the shepherd who leads them in that powerful teaching. Later in the chapter He says He and His Father are one, which is indeed true but also which really makes the Jews mad, and they want to stone Jesus for speaking what is true as the Jews considered Jesus’ statement there highly blasphemous:

(John 10:1)  "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.

 

(John 10:2)  But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

 

(John 10:3)  To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

 

(John 10:4)  When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

 

(John 10:5)  A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

 

(John 10:6)  This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

 

(John 10:7)  So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

 

(John 10:8)  All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

 

(John 10:9)  I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

 

(John 10:10)  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

 

(John 10:11)  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:12)  He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

 

(John 10:13)  He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

 

(John 10:14)  I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

 

(John 10:15)  just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:16)  And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

 

(John 10:17)  For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

 

(John 10:18)  No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father."

 

(John 10:19)  There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.

 

(John 10:20)  Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?"

 

(John 10:21)  Others said, "These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"

 

(John 10:22)  At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,

 

(John 10:23)  and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.

 

(John 10:24)  So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

 

(John 10:25)  Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me,

 

(John 10:26)  but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.

 

(John 10:27)  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

 

(John 10:28)  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

 

(John 10:29)  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

 

(John 10:30)  I and the Father are one."

 

(John 10:31)  The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

 

(John 10:32)  Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"

 

(John 10:33)  The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God."

 

(John 10:34)  Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?

 

(John 10:35)  If he called them gods to whom the word of God came--and Scripture cannot be broken--

 

(John 10:36)  do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

 

(John 10:37)  If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;

 

(John 10:38)  but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

 

(John 10:39)  Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

 

(John 10:40)  He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.

 

(John 10:41)  And many came to him. And they said, "John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true."

 

(John 10:42)  And many believed in him there.

 

In chapter 11 is the account of raising Lazarus from the dead, even after 4 days’ dead in which Jesus says He is the resurrection and the life. This really remarkable miracle causes many Jews to believe in Him much to the disgust of the Pharisees and the chief priests who then plotted and planned to have Jesus put to death.

(John 11:1)  Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

 

(John 11:2)  It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

 

(John 11:3)  So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."

 

(John 11:4)  But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

 

(John 11:5)  Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

 

(John 11:6)  So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

 

(John 11:7)  Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again."

 

(John 11:8)  The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?"

 

(John 11:9)  Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

 

(John 11:10)  But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

 

(John 11:11)  After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him."

 

(John 11:12)  The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

 

(John 11:13)  Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.

 

(John 11:14)  Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died,

 

(John 11:15)  and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

 

(John 11:16)  So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."

 

(John 11:17)  Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

 

(John 11:18)  Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,

 

(John 11:19)  and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.

 

(John 11:20)  So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

 

(John 11:21)  Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

 

(John 11:22)  But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you."

 

(John 11:23)  Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

 

(John 11:24)  Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

 

(John 11:25)  Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

 

(John 11:26)  and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

 

(John 11:27)  She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."

 

(John 11:28)  When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."

 

(John 11:29)  And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.

 

(John 11:30)  Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

 

(John 11:31)  When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

 

(John 11:32)  Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

 

(John 11:33)  When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.

 

(John 11:34)  And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see."

 

(John 11:35)  Jesus wept.

 

(John 11:36)  So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"

 

(John 11:37)  But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?"

 

(John 11:38)  Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

 

(John 11:39)  Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days."

 

(John 11:40)  Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?"

 

(John 11:41)  So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

 

(John 11:42)  I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me."

 

(John 11:43)  When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."

 

(John 11:44)  The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

 

(John 11:45)  Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,

 

(John 11:46)  but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

 

(John 11:47)  So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

 

(John 11:48)  If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

 

(John 11:49)  But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all.

 

(John 11:50)  Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."

 

(John 11:51)  He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

 

(John 11:52)  and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

 

(John 11:53)  So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.

 

(John 11:54)  Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

 

(John 11:55)  Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.

 

(John 11:56)  They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?"

 

(John 11:57)  Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

 

In chapter 12 Mary anoints Him with a costly ointment, then Jesus says His time is coming, then at the end talks again of the promise of eternal life. Also, the priests and Pharisees also wanted to put Lazarus to death because seeing him alive made many Jews believe in Jesus

(John 12:1)  Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

 

(John 12:2)  So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

 

(John 12:3)  Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

 

(John 12:4)  But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said,

 

(John 12:5)  "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"

 

(John 12:6)  He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

 

(John 12:7)  Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.

 

(John 12:8)  For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me."

 

(John 12:9)  When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

 

(John 12:10)  So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well,

 

(John 12:11)  because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

 

(John 12:12)  The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.

 

(John 12:13)  So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!"

 

(Josh 12:14)  And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

 

(John 12:15)  "Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!"

 

(John 12:16)  His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.

 

(John 12:17)  The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.

 

(John 12:18)  The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.

 

(John 12:19)  So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him."

 

(John 12:20)  Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.

 

(John 12:21)  So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

 

(John 12:22)  Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

 

(John 12:23)  And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

 

(John 12:24)  Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

 

(John 12:25)  Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

 

(John 12:26)  If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

 

(John 12:27)  "Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.

 

(John 12:28)  Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

 

(John 12:29)  The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

 

(John 12:30)  Jesus answered, "This voice has come for your sake, not mine.

 

(John 12:31)  Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.

 

(John 12:32)  And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

 

(John 12:33)  He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

 

(John 12:34)  So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

 

(John 12:35)  So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

 

(John 12:36)  While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.

 

(John 12:37)  Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,

 

(John 12:38)  so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

 

(John 12:39)  Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,

 

(John 12:40)  "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them."

 

(John 12:41)  Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.

 

(John 12:42)  Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;

 

(John 12:43)  for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

 

(John 12:44)  And Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.

 

(John 12:45)  And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.

 

(John 12:46)  I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

 

(John 12:47)  If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

 

(John 12:48)  The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

 

(John 12:49)  For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment--what to say and what to speak.

 

(John 12:50)  And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."

 

Here is the link for those who wish to continue the gospel of John to the end of it, and I strongly suggest doing so for the last 9 chapters have wonderful things in them, as well

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/gospel-of-john-bible-study-chapters-13-to-21/10200576621191573

Even these six chapters show and demonstrate Jesus’ love for all of us in powerful ways. He states how He is the door, the good shepherd, and the resurrection and the life. He says He Himself is the key to eternal life. Jesus also longs for a relationship with everyone, and for those who have slipped away to return to Him, such is His great love. I am including a prayer now to help you do just that, to come back to Him and establish that love relationship, so please do pray it with me:

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours