An account of the public ministry of Jesus according to his disciple/apostle John
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John 3:5: "Of water" refers to physical birth from amniotic sac --- who first proposed that theory?
Amen, amen, I say to you — if a man is not born of water and Spirit,
he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Some say that the phrase "of water" refers to physical birth. Thus, one must be born in order to be born again, a logical progression of…
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Who is the comforter?
Can somebody explain, who is the comforter?
John 16:12-13
12I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
13"But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all
the truth; for He will not speak on His own…
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Was Pilate also the father of the son who was healed by Jesus in John 4?
I am new to Christianity, but I have read the Gospel of John and have watched a movie about Jesus. Was the Pilate in John 18:28 the same man whose son Jesus healed in John 4:46?
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Is John the Baptist the same John who wrote the Book of John in the New Testament?
I am confused about whether or not it was St. John the Baptist who wrote the Book of John in the New Testament. I thought this was a different John who was one of the apostles.
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On the which council did Joseph of Arimathea sit?
Mark 15:43
Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.
Of which council was Joseph of Arimathea a member?
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Is the Comforter a person?
There are some sentences which are difficult to read in the Gospel of John, some of them lead me think that the Comforter will be a person, which has not come yet (A) whereas there are some which lead me to believe that the Comforter was the Holy…
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