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Chapter 7

Jesus’ brothers try and convince him to go publicly to the feast in Jerusalem. He tells them that it is not yet his time. After they leave, Jesus goes up to Jerusalem in private for the feast. Later, he goes to the temple and begins to teach. The people are amazed by his teaching because he had received no training. He then tells the people that he is going to a place where they cannot go, and they are puzzled by this. Later on some of the Jews were thinking that he is the Messiah and some were thinking that he was not. Some of them wanted to kill him.

Chapter 8

One of the most vivid scenes in the Bible occurs in this

Chapter. The Pharisees bring Jesus a woman who was caught in the act of adultery. They ask Jesus if they ought to stone her according to the Law of Moses. Jesus says “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” One by one everyone leaves the room, convicted of their own sin. Jesus tells the women that he will not convict her either and to go and not sin. Jesus goes on to preach to them that he is the light of the world. The Jews say that he is testifying about himself and that therefore the testimony cannot be believed. But Jesus says that the testimony of two men is true and that He and his father both testify on his behalf. Then Jesus gets in a long debate with the Pharisees, he tells them that they are of their father the Devil and that he is of his father God. Finally, the biggest claim of the

Chapter comes when Jesus says “Truly , truly, I say to you before Abraham was born, I am.” This was a big deal, as essentially Jesus was claiming to be God.

Chapter 9

Begins with healing a blind man. This creates some controversy in the local synagogue, as the Pharisees cannot agree on whether Jesus is from God or not. They say that the signs could only be performed by one from God, but since he did it on the Sabbath he must not be from God. They spend much time questioning the man who was healed before reaching the decision that Jesus must not be from God because he healed on the Sabbath. They then throw the healed man out of the Synagogue. Jesus hears about this and comes to talk to the man he healed. He asks him if he believes in the Son of Man and when the man says he would if he knew who it was. Jesus tells them that He is the Son of Man. So Jesus again claims to be divine.