He Must Increase

Passages: John 3:22-36; John 4:1-42; Luke 4:14-30; John 4:43-54; Luke 4:31-44

John the Baptist's own disciples come to him one more time, uneasy that Jesus is baptizing more people than he is, and John tells them plainly that this is exactly as it should be — he must increase, and John must decrease. Leaving Judea, Jesus passes through Samaria, where a woman meets him at a well in the heat of the day and leaves without her water jar, running to tell the whole town about a man who told her everything she ever did. Back in his hometown of Nazareth, the people who watched him grow up can't get past the boy they remember, and drive him out of the synagogue. In Cana again, a nobleman's son lies dying in Capernaum, and Jesus heals him from a distance with nothing but a word. Settling in Capernaum, Jesus casts a demon out of a man in the synagogue and heals Peter's mother-in-law of a fever, and by evening the whole city is at his door.

We are in a Luke-John Harmony. Today's episode covers: John 3:22-36; John 4:1-42; Luke 4:14-30; John 4:43-54; Luke 4:31-44 (John's Final Testimony; The Woman at the Well; Nazareth Rejects Jesus; The Official's Son Healed; Capernaum: The Demoniac and Peter's Mother-in-law).