Born Again

John 2:13–4:3, Mark 1:14

A whip of cords, overturned tables, and a claim so audacious it will be twisted into evidence three years later: destroy this temple, and I will raise it in three days. That night — or one very like it — a Pharisee named Nicodemus comes looking for answers under cover of darkness, and hears that he must be born again. Not far away, two rival crowds gather at two different stretches of the Jordan, each baptizing, each wondering which teacher matters more. Then word arrives from the wilderness: the voice crying out there has gone silent, thrown into a prison cell — and Jesus turns north.

We are in a Mark-John Harmony. Today’s episode covers: John 2:13–3:36; Mark 1:14a; John 4:1–3 (the temple cleansed at Passover, Nicodemus and the new birth, John the Baptist’s final testimony, and the journey back to Galilee after John’s imprisonment).