The content below is an excerpt from the notes I took when I began the journey of Drawing through the Gospel of John. I started by doing a careful reading and noticing all the locations and the Jewish Festivals that were mentioned.
Location and Festival Tracking
John 1:1 Prologue
John 1:28 In Bethany across the Jordan
John 1:43 Go to Galilee
John 2:1 A Wedding in Cana of Galilee - Water to Wine FIRST SIGN
John 2:12 went down to Capernaum
PASSOVER
John 2:13 went up to Jerusalem...in the temple
John 3:1 Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night (still in Jerusalem)
John 3:22 went into the Judean countryside to Baptize. John was in Aenon near Salim
John 4:1-5 Stops in the Samaritan city called Sychar on the way to Galilee Woman at the Well
John 4:43 he went from that place to Galilee
(the Galileans had seen all that he did at the festival)
John 4:46 to Cana in Galilee (again) Jesus heals Capernaum official’s son from Cana SECOND SIGN
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A FESTIVAL OF THE JEWS (SABBATH CONTROVERSY)
John 5:1 went up to Jerusalem
John 5:2 the pool by the Sheep Gate, Beth-zatha or Bethesda or Bethsaida
THIRD SIGN OF heals man on Sabbath (text does not call it a sign, although John 6:2 refers to “the signs he was doing for the sick”)
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THE PASSOVER WAS NEAR
John 6:1 went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee - FOURTH SIGN OF Feeds 5,000
John 6:15 he withdrew to the mountain by himself
John 6:16 disciples cross the sea Jesus walks on water
John 6:24 Capernaum - teaching in the synagogue (John 6:59) “I AM the bread of Life (John 6:35)”
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FESTIVAL OF BOOTHS (Tabernacles) WAS NEAR
John 7:1 went about in Galilee
John 7:10 he went to Jerusalem in secret
John 7:14 in the middle of the festival he went to the Temple to teach (in the treasury John 7:20)
“I AM the light of the world (John 8:12)”
John 8:59 he hid himself and went out of the temple
John 9:1 as he walked along (in Jerusalem, having just slipped out of the temple)
John 9:5 repeats “I am the light of the world”
FIFTH SIGN OF healing Blind man on a Sabbath
John 9:13-34 Cutaway to man on trial for being healed
John 9:35 Jesus finds the man -
“I AM the gate for the sheep (John 10:7)”
“I AM the good shepherd (John 10:11)”
FESTIVAL OF THE DEDICATION (HANNUKAH)
John 10:22 in Jerusalem (still) winter. walking in the portico of Solomon - “Are you the Messiah, or not?”
“My sheep hear my voice, that’s why you don’t hear me” They try to stone him.
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John 10:40 he went away again across the Jordan to place John had been baptizing
John 11:17 in Bethany - Lazarus is dead - “I am the resurrection and the life (John 11:25)”
John 11:38 at Lazarus’ tomb SIXTH SIGN OF RAISING LAZARUS
John 11:45-53 cutaway to meeting of the council to get Jesus
John 11:54 Jesus hangs out in wilderness near Ephraim
PASSOVER WAS NEAR
John 11:55 Many Jews went to Jerusalem looking for Jesus
John 12:1 Jesus came to Lazarus’ house in Bethany
John 12:12 crowd meets Jesus to welcome him to Jerusalem - Triumphal Entry
John 12:27 Jesus speaks of his death
John 12:36 he departed and hid from them
John 12:44-50 A “summary” from the lips of Jesus. Where is Jesus when he cries out these words?
THE UPPER ROOM DISCOURSE
John 13:1 Jesus gathers with his disciple “before the festival of the Passover”
John 13:2 during supper -
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life (John 14:6)”
“I am the true vine (John 15:1)”
BETRAYAL AND ARREST
John 18:1 he went across the Kidron Valley to a garden - Jesus Arrested
John 18:12 first they took him to Annas
John 18:28 to Pilate’s headquarters
John 19:1 Jesus is flogged
THE DAY OF PREPARATION FOR THE PASSOVER
CRUCIFIXION
John 19:16 Golgotha - Jesus is crucified
John 19:38 Jesus is buried in Joseph’s tomb
RESURRECTION
John 20:1 Mary Magdalene, Peter and the beloved disciple see the empty tomb, the men return to the house. (still in Jerusalem)
John 20:11 Jesus appears to Mary
John 20:19 Jesus enters the locked room and appears to disciples
AN ASIDE TO STATE THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
BY THE SEA
John 21:1 Jesus shows himself to disciples by the Sea of Tiberias.
Great catch of fish
Peter “reinstated”
Jesus and the beloved disciple
