Ye Must Be Born Again

Passages: Luke 4:1-13; John 1:19-51; John 2:1-12; John 2:13-25; John 3:1-21

Fresh from the Jordan, Jesus doesn't return to public life right away — the Spirit leads him into the wilderness first, where he fasts forty days and is tempted three times by the devil. Meanwhile, back at the Jordan, John the Baptist tells the priests sent to question him exactly who he is not, then points to Jesus walking by as the Lamb of God, sending two of his own disciples after him. Three days later, at a wedding in Cana, Jesus turns water into wine — his first public sign. At the Passover in Jerusalem he clears the temple courts of moneychangers, and that night a Pharisee named Nicodemus comes to him after dark, and is told that no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.

We are in a Luke-John Harmony. Today's episode covers: Luke 4:1-13; John 1:19-51; John 2:1-12; John 2:13-25; John 3:1-21 (The Temptation; John's Testimony and the First Disciples; The Wedding at Cana; The Cleansing of the Temple; Jesus and Nicodemus).