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The feeding of the multitude is the only miracle story told in all four Gospels. Perhaps this story has such a secure place in the memory of the church because of the Eucharistic themes which it carries. This is especially true in John where Jesus’ action over the bread is described with the verb eucharisteo, … Continue reading “John 6:1-21 Commentary by Brian Peterson”

This text begins our month-long lectionary “bread-based” texts. And don’t we get tired of all the bread sermons? We give up before we make it all the way through this sixth chapter of John. We run out of things to say about simple loaves of bread. We turn to the Epistles or the Old Testament.  … Continue reading “John 6:1-21 Commentary by Ginger Barfield”

Students who have studied John’s Gospel with me, and especially my teaching partner Barbara Rossing, will be shocked that I am cautioning preachers not to move too quickly to the Eucharist on these Sundays devoted to “the bread of life.” Jesus has much to say to us about himself before we speak of the Lord’s … Continue reading “John 6:1-21 Commentary by Craig A. Satterlee”

The man healed in this story is perhaps the least willing and the least grateful of all the people Jesus heals in John’s Gospel. The setting of the healing is a pool called Bethzatha near the Sheep’s Gate in Jerusalem (John 5:2). Lying in the porticos around this pool are many invalids — blind, lame, … Continue reading “John 5:1-9 Commentary by Elisabeth Johnson”

Jesus, particularly in the Fourth Gospel, would seem to have a somewhat ambivalent relationship to what we would call miracles but what John describes as “signs.” That’s an important distinction, actually, between signs and miracles. And while it doesn’t totally resolve how to preach this passage, it at least gives us a place to start. … Continue reading “John 4:46-54 Commentary by David Lose”

Un Pueblo Mestizo Los samaritanos de la época de Jesús eran el resultado de la mezcla de los israelitas sobrevivientes de la destrucción del reino del norte en el año 722-721 AC con los colonos que los asirios enviaron a repoblar la región. De esta mezcla surgió un pueblo mestizo en lo étnico, lo cultural … Continue reading “San Juan 4:5-42 Comentario por José Luis La Torre-Cuadros”

The second and third Sundays in Lent juxtapose two characters unique to the Gospel of John. Last week, we were introduced to Nicodemus who comes to Jesus by night and lasts all of nine verses in his conversation with Jesus before fading into the night from whence he came. This week narrates another character’s encounter … Continue reading “John 4:5-42 Commentary by Karoline Lewis”

The much-loved story of the Samaritan woman at the well is the second of four encounters with Jesus in John this Lent. Each reveals something about who he is, some gift he brings to us on this year’s Lenten journey.  Where last week the gift emerged out of the Father’s love given in the Son, … Continue reading “John 4:5-42 Commentary by Meda Stamper”

The lection assigned for the Third Sunday in Lent provides something of a study in contrasts with John 3:1-17. If you suspect that these contrasts convey a unifying theme in the gospel of John, you would be right. According to Lamar Williamson Jr., the Nicodemus story provides the backdrop for the happenings in chapters 4:1 … Continue reading “John 4:5-42 Commentary by Robert Hoch”

Sometimes I think the way we interpret this passage says as much about us as it does the passage. For this is a passage and story that has, in my opinion, been notoriously misinterpreted, in part because we read it in isolation of the rest of John’s gospel and in part because of the Church’s … Continue reading “John 4:1-42 Commentary by David Lose”