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JOHN 1:43-51

—Christ finds the sinner—

LUKE 19:10
10 “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

JOHN 6:44
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him…

GENESIS 3:9
9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

EZEKIEL 34:11
11 “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.

Christ: the fulfillment of the Scriptures;
JOHN 5:39
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me…

LUKE 24:27
27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

The son of Joseph;
JOHN 6:42
42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?...

‘Nazarene’: a derogatory title;
ACTS 24:5
5 For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Rejection of the familiar;
MATTHEW 13:57
57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

Nazareth—entirely absent from prophecy;
JOHN 7:41–42
41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee? 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 7:52
52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

Christ did not come to deluge humanity with irrefutable proofs;
HEBREWS 11:1
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:7
7 …for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Bookends of disbelief;
JOHN 20:25
25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

The contrast of Nathaniel;
GENESIS 27:35–36
35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” 36 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing…

The supernatural awareness of Christ;
JOHN 4:17–18
17 … Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands…”

JOHN 6:70
70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”

JOHN 9:3
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 13:10–11
10 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

JOHN 13:38
38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.”


—Christ sees the sinner—

GENESIS 16:13
13 So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”

JEREMIAH 12:3
3 But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

PSALM 139:1
1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me!

GALATIANS 1:15
15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,

ROMANS 8:29
29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.


EPHESIANS 1:4
4 …even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love


The comfort of God’s knowledge of us;
ROMANS 5:8
8 …but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Jesus’ work of revealing the Father;
JOHN 1:18
18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

JOHN 14:9
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father…

JOHN 11:40
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

The vision;
GENESIS 28:12
12 And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

DANIEL 7:13–14
13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. 14 And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.

—Christ mediates for the sinner—

JOHN 14:6
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

1 TIMOTHY 2:5–6 (See also: Hebrews 8:6, 9:15)
5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.


10/12/2025