John 4:1-30 Palm Sunday

I.     “The Outsider”
 
 John 4:1-15
Mark 1:37-38; Luke 13:33; Lk. 19:10
Genesis 33:18-19; Joshua 8:30-35
2 Kings 17:24-31; Deut. 7:1-11
Lk. 4:32; John 2:24-25
Mark 7:18b-23; Jeremiah 2:13; 17:13; John 7:38; Ro. 8:11
Romans 14:17-18; 15:13
John 4:13-14; Jn. 6:35; 7:37-38; Revelation 7:16
Isaiah 49:8-10
2 Cor. 3:14-16; Lk. 15:17-19; Ac. 9:4-8; Ro.2:4
 

II.      “The Witness”
 
John 4:16-26; Ro. 2:4, 2 Cor.7:9-10, 2 Tim. 2:24-26
1 Thess. 1:4-5; Psalm 79:8-9
Psalm 51:1-3; John 14:26; 15:26; 16:13; 17:17;
John 7:38-39; Is. 66:2 Eph. 2:1-10
Deuteronomy 18:15(-18);
John 9:35-38
John 4:27-30; 2 Cor 5:20
Matthew 21:1-11
 
Word Study
GK: had to: dei: necessity established by the decree of God; esp. by that purpose of which relates to the salvation of men by the intervention of Christ and which is disclosed in the OT Prophecies; concerning what Christ was destined finally to undergo, his sufferings, death, resurrection, ascension.
GK: spring: pege: a fount; (lit. or fig.) i.e. source or supply of (water, blood, enjoyment) noun meaning fountain, source of water (fig.) of life-giving water John 4:14
GK: salvation: soteria: noun -rescue or safety (physical or moral) salvation, save, strength. (I.) particularly and generally: deliverance from danger, slavery, or imprisonment. (II.) In the Christian sense, soteria is deliverance from sin and its spiritual consequences and its admission to eternal life with blessedness in the Kingdom of Christ. (Lk 1:77; 19:9; Jn 4:22; Ac 4:12…)
 
 
The OT - Jesus Concealed; the Gospels - Jesus Revealed;
The Epistles - Jesus Explained; Revelation - Jesus Expected. 

Acts 26:4-23
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I.     “The Proud”
 
 
Matthew 27:11-26, Romans 8:28, Eze. 34:15-16
Ezekiel 36:24-26; Jeremiah 31:31-33; Ro. 3:25; Hb 2:17
1 John 2:2; 4:10; Ez. 34:8-10
Acts 26:4-8; Gal. 1:13; Ac. 13:32; 17:3; 22:3; 
Philippians 3:3-6; 2 Tim. 3:5;
Acts 7:58-60; Lk. 23:34; 
Acts 8:1-3; Ro. 1:32; Matt. 10:22-23
 

 II.     “The Distracted”
 
 
Acts 26:9-11; 1 Tim. 1:13-15; Ac. 9:1-2, 14, 21
Matt. 27:24; Ro. 2:28-29
John 16:2-4 
 

III.     “The Spared”
 
 
Acts 26:12-23; Ez. 2:1; Dan. 10:11; Ac. 22:14-15
Isaiah 35:5; 42:7; Ac. 5:30-32; 15:9-10; 20:32
Acts 2:38; 14:15; Eph. 6:13; Lk. 2:32; 
Acts 9:15-18; Ez. 36:25-26; 34:15-16; 37:1-14
Acts 26:18
2 Corinthians 3:2-6; Matt. 16:16; Ex. 24:12; Ez. 11:19
Ezekiel 36:26; Jeremiah 31:33; Heb. 8:10; Eph. 2:8
John 6:63; Ro. 8:2
2Corinthians 5:17-21; Malachi 2:7; Ez. 34; 36; 37
Acts 26:18
 
Word Study:
GK: witness: martus: mar-toos; a witness (lit. judicially) or figuratively (by analogy) “a martyr”: - martyr, witness; an allusion to those who witness a public game (Hebrews 12:1), especially those who witnessed the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, who bear witness to the Truth as it is in Jesus (Lk. 24:48, Ac. 1:8, 22; 2:32, Ac. 5:32; 26:16; 2 Tim. 2:2); so of one who bears witness for God, and testifies to the world what God reveals through him i.e. a teacher, a prophet (Rev. 1:5; 3:14; 11:3)
 
The OT - Jesus Concealed; the Gospels - Jesus Revealed; 
The Epistles - Jesus Explained; Revelation - Jesus Expected. 

I.     “The Shepherd Foretold”
 
Matthew 9:35-26, Nu. 27:17, 1 Kgs. 22:17, Eze. 34:5
Ezekiel 34:1-6; Lk. 11:46; Jn. 21:15-17; 2 Cor. 16:14
Lk. 15:1-2; Mt. 11:19; Lk. 19:7; Ex. 16:2,7-8; Lk. 5:30, 7:39
 

II.      “The Shepherd Tells”
 
Luke 15:3-7; 1 Pet.2:25; Isaiah 40:11, 48:22, 60:4, 66:12
Ezekiel 34:10-13; Hb. 13:17; Jn. 10:11, Mi. 4:6-7
Luke 19:10; Eze. 34:13
 

III.     “The Shepherd Who Saves”
 
Luke 15:11-16; Deut. 21:17; Eph. 5:18; Lk. 16:19-31
Ezekiel 34:14; Ps. 23:2; Jn. 10:9, Isa. 32:18, Jer. 33:12
Luke 15:17-20; Ac. 12:11-12; Jn. 3:27; Lk. 7:6-7; Ja. 4:8; Gen. 33:4; Ac. 20:37-38
Ezekiel 34:15-16; Is 40:11; Eze. 34:14; Mic. 4:6; Is 10:16
Luke 15:22-24; Zech. 3:3-5; Gen. 41:42; Eze. 16:10
Ezekiel 34:22-24; Jer. 23:4-5; Mic. 7:14
Micah 5:3-5; Is 40:11; Ps. 72:8; Is. 52:13; Lk. 1:32
Ezekiel 34:25-26, 29-31; Is. 54:10, 11:6-9; 35:9; 61:1-3
John 10:7-11; Jn. 14:6; Eph. 2:18; Jn. 5:34; Ps. 23;
Eze. 34:12, 23; Hb. 13:20-21; Mk. 10:45; Rev. 7:17
John 19:28-30; 13:23; 17:4; Ac. 13:29; Mt. 27:50
Mk. 15:37; Luke 23:46; Lk. 15:20; Colossians 2:13-15
Jn. 21:15-17; Mt. 26:33; Jn. 10:11-16;
Is. 40:11; Ac. 20:28; 1 Pet. 5:2; Rev. 7:17
 
Word Study:
GK: kill: thuo: offer, kill, (by implication) sacrifice, slaughter. Luke 15:23 (bring fattened calf and)
 
Gk: compassion: splagchnizomai: to have the bowels yearn, i.e. (fig.) feel sympathy, to pity: - feel (have) compassion, in (out of, be moved with, with) pity.
 
Gk: “It is finished”: tetelestai; (teleioo); (teleo): to end i.e. complete, execute, conclude, discharge (a debt):-accomplish, carry out, fulfill, end, finish, pay, make perfect: Everything has been accomplished which by the appointment of the Father, as revealed in the Scriptures, I must do and bear. (Thayer’s) Jn. 19:30
 
The OT - Jesus Concealed; the Gospels - Jesus Revealed;
The Epistles - Jesus Explained; Revelation - Jesus Expected. 

I.     “Born From Above”
 
John 3:1-8
John 4:23-24
Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 Peter 1:3
John 3:3 - Greek Word Study:
Born: gennao: meaning to procreate or to Regenerate, from genos; to be begotten or be born; (metaph.) Born of God or Of the Spirit, in a spiritual sense.(Only in Johannine writings) to have received from God a new spiritual life and to be born again from above.
Again: anothem: From above; from the first, anew; Of time, meaning from the first, from the beginning (Lk. 1:13, Ac 26:5, Gal. 4:9). Also, again, another time, as in Jn.3:3, 7, translated “be born again”. This could also be translated “to be born from above”; doubtless equal to being “born of God” in Jn. 1:13. In Jn. 3:4, Nicodemus clearly takes it as (syn.) ‘deutron’ “a second time”.
See: eido: properly, to see (Lit. or Fig.); by implication (in the perf. only) to know: - be aware, behold, have knowledge, look on, perceive
 
2 Corinthians 5:17
Isaiah 44:3
Ezekiel 36:25-27; Luke 24:27-32
1 Cor. 15:50; Jn. 6:63
Spirit: pneuma: a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or breeze (by anal. Or fig.) a spirit i.e. (human, superhuman, Divine; God, Christ’s Spirit, Holy Spirit – spoken of as imparting new spiritual life to those who believe in the Gospel in Jn. 3:5, 6, 8) (Hb: ‘ruwach’)
 
Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 Peter 1:1-5
 

II.      “Believe And Live!”
 
John 3:9-15
Daniel 7:13-14
Numbers 21:4-9
1 John 5:6-12, John 12:32
Isaiah 52:13- 53:1
John 3:16-18
Ephesians 5:25-27, 1 John 5:6-12; 2 Corinthians 5:21
Acts 4:12
 
The OT - Jesus Concealed; the Gospels - Jesus Revealed;
The Epistles - Jesus Explained; Revelation - Jesus Expected.