The First Letter of PAUL to TIMOTHY - Chapter One

The First letter of PAUL to TIMOTHY 

Overview

(The Bible Project)

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Saviour and of Christ Jesus our hope,

2 To Timothy my true son in the faith:

Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Timothy charged to oppose false teachers

3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in

 Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer 4 or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work – which is by faith. 5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 6 Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk. 7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.

8 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for those practising homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers – and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 

11 that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

The Lord’s grace to Paul

12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service. 13 Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners – of whom I am the worst. 16 But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The charge to Timothy renewed

18 Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, 

19 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. 20 Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

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Word by Word Meditations 

by Fred Ursell

1st Timothy 1: “traders” (v.10) 

Just as there are subjects of conversation which are troubling (see vv.3-7), so too there are businesses which are taboo. Trade is legitimate, but “slave traders” (v.10) are not in the right career, and need to ‘jump ship’ fast. 

They are listed along with “perverts ... liars and perjurers”! If the occupation you are in is tainted, to the point where it is virtually impossible to conduct business in honourable or in honest fashion, your choice is to cut out or become corrupted. Hymn-writer Isaac Newton had been a captain of a slave-trading ship, came to Christ, and campaigned with Wilberforce to outlaw slavery. Get a job! 

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READING 

First letter of PAUL to TIMOTHY 

Chapter One

Read by David Suchet

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Letters of PAUL to Timothy 

Study by David Pawson

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The Gospel according to JOHN - Chapter Twenty One

Jesus and the miraculous catch of fish

1 Afterwards Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee. It happened this way: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. 3 ‘I’m going out to fish,’ Simon Peter told them, and they said, ‘We’ll go with you.’ So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

4 Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus.

5 He called out to them, ‘Friends, haven’t you any fish?’

‘No,’ they answered.

6 He said, ‘Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.’ When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.

7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord!’ As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, ‘It is the Lord,’ he wrapped his outer garment round him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. 

8 The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred metres. 9 When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.

10 Jesus said to them, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught.’ 11 So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. 12 Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.’ None of the disciples dared ask him, ‘Who are you?’ They knew it was the Lord. 13 Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. 14 This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Jesus reinstates Peter

15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?’

‘Yes, Lord,’ he said, ‘you know that I love you.’

Jesus said, ‘Feed my lambs.’

16 Again Jesus said, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’

He answered, ‘Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.’

Jesus said, ‘Take care of my sheep.’

17 The third time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’

Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ He said, ‘Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.’

Jesus said, ‘Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.’ 19 Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, ‘Follow me!’

20 Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, ‘Lord, who is going to betray you?’) 21 When Peter saw him, he asked, ‘Lord, what about him?’

22 Jesus answered, ‘If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.’ 23 Because of this, the rumour spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, ‘If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?’

24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

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Word by Word Meditations 

by Fred Ursell

John 21: “rumour” (v.23)

Christian doctrine isn’t founded on half-truths or “rumour”, otherwise it would have foundered long ago. Our faith is built on rock-solid reliable reports. The writers who recorded what their eyes and ears had witnessed made short shrift of spurious versions. 

Example – this cited distortion of what the Lord had actually said about Peter. John’s final comments reveal how selective he’d needed to be, whittling down to manageable proportions the vast amount of known material (“many other things” v.25) regarding Jesus’ ministry, reducing it all to a single volume. Incredibly … credible! Yes!

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READINGS

The Gospel according to JOHN

- Chapter 20 -

Read by David Suchet 

The Gospel according to John 

Read by Sir David Suchet

https://youtu.be/PKiAXVxOm6o

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OVERVIEWS 

THE Gospel according to JOHN

Chapter 1 to 12

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

https://youtu.be/G-2e9mMf7E8

THE Gospel according to JOHN

Chapter 13 to 12

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

https://youtu.be/RUfh_wOsauk

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STUDY - LINKS

The Gospel according to

JOHN

by Tim Mackie 

(The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/QHmGcmmnSI4

https://youtu.be/ttawDNQV7Bw

The Gospel according to JOHN 

Part 1 

David Pawson

https://youtu.be/gO9mdZIJYbU

The Gospel according to JOHN 

Part 2

David Pawson

https://youtu.be/G2R7ljD_I7k

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FILM

The Gospel according to JOHN

“The Life of Jesus” 

Official Full movie

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The Gospel according to JOHN - Chapter Twenty

The empty tomb

1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!’

3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 

6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped round Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene

11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

13 They asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying?’

‘They have taken my Lord away,’ she said, ‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’ 14 At this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realise that it was Jesus.

15 He asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?’

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.’

16 Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’

She turned towards him and cried out in Aramaic, ‘Rabboni!’ (which means ‘Teacher’).

17 Jesus said, ‘Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”’

18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: ‘I have seen the Lord!’ And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Jesus appears to his disciples

19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you!’ 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

21 Again Jesus said, ‘Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.’ 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.’

Jesus appears to Thomas

24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord!’

But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.’

26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you!’ 27 Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.’

28 Thomas said to him, ‘My Lord and my God!’

29 Then Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’

The purpose of John’s gospel

30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

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Word by Word Meditations 

by Fred Ursell

John 20: “locked” (v.26)

This incident reads like a trick performed by the legendary Harry Houdini. “His disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked (???!!!), Jesus came and stood among them” (v.26). 

No, it wasn’t an optical illusion. After his resurrection Jesus possessed a recognisable body – he invited Thomas to banish his doubts by touching him (see v.27); but it now enjoyed supernatural qualities, fit to inhabit eternity. 1 John 3 v.2 says “we shall be like him” and Paul tells us “we will all be changed” (1 Corinthians 15 v.51). 

Magic? No – miracle! 

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READINGS

The Gospel according to JOHN

- Chapter 20 -

Read by David Suchet 

The Gospel according to John 

Read by Sir David Suchet

https://youtu.be/PKiAXVxOm6o

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OVERVIEWS 

THE Gospel according to JOHN

Chapter 1 to 12

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

https://youtu.be/G-2e9mMf7E8

THE Gospel according to JOHN

Chapter 13 to 12

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

https://youtu.be/RUfh_wOsauk

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STUDY - LINKS

Encountering the risen King

-Timothy Keller-

The Gospel according to

JOHN

by Tim Mackie 

(The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/QHmGcmmnSI4

https://youtu.be/ttawDNQV7Bw

The Gospel according to JOHN 

Part 1 

David Pawson

https://youtu.be/gO9mdZIJYbU

The Gospel according to JOHN 

Part 2

David Pawson

https://youtu.be/G2R7ljD_I7k

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FILM

The Gospel according to JOHN

“The Life of Jesus” 

Official Full movie

https://youtu.be/2mgUPt2KI08

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The Gospel of JOHN = Chapter Nineteen

Jesus sentenced to be crucified 

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe 3 and went up to him again and again, saying, ‘Hail, king of the Jews!’ And they slapped him in the face.

4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, ‘Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.’ 5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, ‘Here is the man!’

6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, ‘Crucify! Crucify!’

But Pilate answered, ‘You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.’

7 The Jewish leaders insisted, ‘We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.’

8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 9 and he went back inside the palace. ‘Where do you come from?’ he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. 10 ‘Do you refuse to speak to me?’ Pilate said. ‘Don’t you realise I have power either to free you or to crucify you?’

11 Jesus answered, ‘You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.’

12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, ‘If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.’

13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). 14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon.

‘Here is your king,’ Pilate said to the Jews.

15 But they shouted, ‘Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!’

‘Shall I crucify your king?’ Pilate asked.

‘We have no king but Caesar,’ the chief priests answered.

16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.

The crucifixion of Jesus

So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. 17Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others – one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. 20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. 21The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, ‘Do not write “The King of the Jews”, but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.’

22Pilate answered, ‘What I have written, I have written.’

23When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

24 ‘Let’s not tear it,’ they said to one another. ‘Let’s decide by lot who will get it.’

This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said,

‘They divided my clothes among them

    and cast lots for my garment.’

So this is what the soldiers did.

25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing near by, he said to her, ‘Woman, here is your son,’ 27 and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’ From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

The death of Jesus

28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, ‘I am thirsty.’ 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. 30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, ‘It is finished.’ With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. 32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. 33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. 35 The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. 

36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: ‘Not one of his bones will be broken,’ 37 and, as another scripture says, ‘They will look on the one they have pierced.’

The burial of Jesus

38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. 39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about thirty-five kilograms. 40 Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. 41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was near by, they laid Jesus there.

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Word by Word Meditations 

by Fred Ursell

John 19: “pierced” (v.37)

John is not prolific in citing the Old Testament; he writes mainly for non-Jewish readers. So it is quite striking that there are 5 quotes in this chapter. The first (Psalm 22 v.18) described how his clothes would be raffled; then both Exodus 12 v.46 and Numbers 9 v.12 show the Passover rules forbade any breaking off the lamb’s bones, a fact echoed in Psalm 34 v.20. Finally Zechariah 12 v.10 prophesied: “they will look on me, the one they have pierced” (notice crucially it is the LORD Jehovah speaking). 

The gospel omits that key word (“me”), leaving aware Jewish readers to draw their own conclusions.

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READINGS

The Gospel according to JOHN

- Chapter 19 -

Read by David Suchet 

The Gospel according to John 

Read by Sir David Suchet

https://youtu.be/PKiAXVxOm6o

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OVERVIEWS 

THE Gospel according to JOHN

Chapter 1 to 12

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

https://youtu.be/G-2e9mMf7E8

THE Gospel according to JOHN

Chapter 13 to 12

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

https://youtu.be/RUfh_wOsauk

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STUDY - LINKS

The Gospel according to

JOHN

by Tim Mackie 

(The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/QHmGcmmnSI4

https://youtu.be/ttawDNQV7Bw

The Gospel according to JOHN 

Part 1 

David Pawson

https://youtu.be/gO9mdZIJYbU

The Gospel according to JOHN 

Part 2

David Pawson

https://youtu.be/G2R7ljD_I7k

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FILM

The Gospel according to JOHN

“The Life of Jesus” 

Official Full movie

https://youtu.be/2mgUPt2KI08

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