The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved

Marvin Watson

Description

This book is about the book of St. John in the Bible. What it does is detail Jesus’ life from the Apostle John’s perspective. This includes where he was born, where he grew up at, some of the early part of his life as a child and of course his public ministry. There is also a little about John The Baptist, who was the forerunner of Jesus.

Sujets

• Religious
• Philosophie et théologie
• St. John
• Espiritual
• Jesús de Nazaret
• W. Marvin Watson
• Jesus
• Spiritual
• Spirituality
• Religion
• Disciple
• Jésus de Nazareth
• Bible

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 03 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665567053
• Langue: English

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The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved
 
 
 
 
Marvin Watson
 
 
 

 
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Published by AuthorHouse 08/01/2022
 
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6706-0 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022914212
 
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Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.
 
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This book is dedicated to my wife, Velda, who has stayed by my side since the beginning, a shout out to Bishop Roger Thomas, my pastor, who has given me a lot of sound information on my second book that I did, also, a shout out to all of the authors out there that have either influenced me to write not only a book but also a best seller, and finally, all of the readers that will be touched as they read this book.
CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
PREFACE
John was the disciple Jesus loved. I would imagine it was because John did not make many rash decisions. John also knew a lot about Jesus. For example, John was well aware that Jesus was the Word. This word ( Word ) means a lot of things. I never dreamed that it meant so much.
Some of the things that this Word means is something said (including the thought): a topic or subject of discourse, also the reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive. It also makes mention of the fact that the book of John or John himself brought this out. All of these things speak of certain aspects of Jesus. He incorporated all of these things to an incredible and exhaustive degree.
CHAPTER 1
T he book of John starts by saying, “In the beginning was the Word.” That means that everything I said this word was in the preface is absolutely true. It is also a complicated concept. What this is saying is that the word or name Jesus is synonymous with the Word, being from the beginning.
John 1:6 says, “God sent a man, John the Baptist, to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony.” This was predicted way back in the Old Testament by Isaiah.
Listen! It’s the voice of someone shouting, Clear the way through the wilderness for the Lord! Make a straight highway through the waste land for our God! Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills. Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places. Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it together. The Lord has spoken! (Isaiah 40:3–5 NLT)
This was the voice of God speaking by His Spirit through the prophet Isaiah about the prophet John the Baptist. What this was saying first of all is “Listen!” Then it says it’s the voice of one shouting, “Clear the way through the wilderness for the Lord.” Jesus had to prepare for His ministry by spending forty days and forty nights in the wilderness. It was imperative that Jesus pass this test, or He would not have been allowed to start His public ministry (Matthew 4:1–2).
Then it says, “Make a straight highway through the waste land for our God!” What this means is that this is a road that must be traveled by everyone who calls him- or herself a follower of Christ. Highway is a Hebrew word that means “path, aqueduct, or passageway.” This means this is the way you must go. It includes going along this path to follow the Lord or Jesus the “Christ.” The word Christ simply means “anointed.” Then it says “waste land for our God.” This means that the path Jesus had to go through will not be the best, and some of it will look very dirty and horrible. But if Jesus had to do it, you will have to do it too (John 15:18–19).
I used this scripture because the world will say and do a lot of things to you that you will not like. It will call you all kinds of names, make things difficult for you, lie about you, and in some cases do you harm or try to kill you. But some of what the disciples did when they were beaten for ministering about Jesus is found in this passage of scripture: Acts 5:40–42.
Going down to John 1:7, this is saying that John the Baptist was a witness for Jesus. All the time that John the Baptist was alive, he said that he was not that prophet, and also, he was not even worthy to put on the sandals from His feet (Mark 1:7; John 1:29–34). Then going down to verse 35, this is when the witness of John the Baptist’s own disciples followed Jesus as well, because of what John said.
Verse 10 is a direct quote from Isaiah 53:3. Verse 12 is saying that if you make Jesus your Savior, the Father God recognizes you as His son as well. This is why it is worded like that. Going to verse 13, this is saying that no human effort could ever make you a child of God. This world can only reproduce things of this world, but the Spirit makes things of the Spirit, that being from God.
When we get to verse 16, this is saying that Jesus is so pregnant with blessings and thanksgiving that we can’t help but get blessed when we hang around Him. Next, we come to verse 17 (NLT), which says, “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
What this is saying is Moses gave us a lot of rules and regulations to live by, but following them in and of itself could not bring grace or salvation. All the law was good for was showing them how much they had erred from God. But grace is a very important word to the believer.
The word grace comes from the Greek word charisma , which means
graciousness, (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstr.) or concr.: lit., fig. or spiritual: espec. the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude):—acceptable benefit, favor, gift, grace, joy, liberality, pleasure, thank, worthy.
But without going that far, it also means “unmerited favor.” This literally means that there is nothing you can do that will allow you to earn this. It is based solely on the act of what Jesus did on the cross two thousand years ago.
The next verse, which is John 1:18 (KJV), says, “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.” This literally means that only Jesus Himself has seen the Father God. This is also why the S in Son and F in Father are capitalized, because the word Son is referring to Jesus, whereas the word Father is referring to Jehovah or “the Father God.” It also says, “No one has ever seen God, but the unique One; who is Himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.”
What this is saying is that no one has ever seen God but “Jesus,” which is why they say the “unique One.” there was no one ever to walk on this earth like Him, and He was the second part of the Godhead. This means that He was in fact God. However, for the length of time that He stayed on this earth, He only walked as a Son of God and not God Himself. In other words, He pushed aside all of His deity so that He could be just like one of us. This is why it says in Hebrews 4:15, “For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.”
This literally means that whatever temptations we have ever had over the years and have right now even, Jesus had to go through them too. He had beautiful women walking around with Him, including Mary Magdalen and others (Matthew 27:55–56). It says that Jesus was financed by women, which means they gave into His ministry and so forth.
Now going down to verse 19, this is telling us that Jews sent priests and Levites to John to find out who he was. They were trying to determine if he was some great prophet, like Elijah, or the Messiah. He told them that he was neither but the voice of one crying in the wind. As stated before, that concerns the report that Isaiah gave about him found in Isaiah 40:3–5.
A lot of the information that is being discussed in these next few chapters was already discussed. So now I want to go down to verse 24, which says that the ones questioning him were Pharisees. The reason they wanted to question him had something to do with their religion and how it was perceived or how it was supposed to be applied.
You see, for John the Baptist to baptize, he had to do so according to one of se