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JOHN 20:30-31
JOHN 20:30-31
30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Believing things 'on authority' only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine percent of the things you believe are believed on authority. I believe there is such a place as New York. I could not prove by abstract reasoning that there is such a place. I believe it because reliable people have told me so. The ordinary person believes in the solar system, atoms, and the circulation of the blood on authority--because the scientists say so. Every historical statement is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Spanish Armada. But we believe them simply because people who did see them have left writings that tell us about them; in fact, on authority. A person who balked at authority in other things, as some people do in religion, would have to be content to know nothing all his life.
C.S. Lewis.
1- THERE IS MUCH MORE
1- THERE IS MUCH MORE
30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
25 Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
John: An Introduction and Commentary iv. Concluding Statement of Purpose (20:30–31)
In the first part of the Gospel, the Book of Signs, the evangelist records seven signs performed by Jesus: turning water to wine in Cana (2:1–11); raising the royal official’s son (4:46–54); healing the lame man at the Pool of Bethesda (5:1–9); feeding the five thousand (6:1–14); walking on the sea (6:16–21); healing the man born blind (9:1–7); and raising Lazarus (11:1–44).
2-THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE
2-THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE
31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
3-THE GIVER OF LIFE
3-THE GIVER OF LIFE
31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.