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Joh_1:6 Characteristics of the Baptist
Joh_1:6 Witnessing to the Light
Joh_1:10 Blindness of Heart
Joh_1:14 Emmanuel!
Joh_1:14 The Immensity of Divine Love
Joh_1:14 The Most Stupendous Fact in History
Joh_1:14 The Attractiveness of Religion
Joh_1:18 The Only-Begotten Son
Joh_1:18 The Revelation of God to Man
Joh_1:23 A Message for To-day
Joh_1:26; Joh_1:33 The Unknown Christ
Joh_1:29 The Lamb of God
Joh_1:35-37 A Repeated Effort
Joh_1:45-46 Experience the Test of Truth
Joh_1:45-46 Prejudice Overcome
Joh_2:2 The Social Life of the Christian
Joh_2:5 Knowledge from Obedience
Joh_2:8 The Transforming Power of Christ
Joh_2:8 Achievement
Joh_2:11 Manifestation of Glory
Joh_2:11 The Unexpected Miracle
Joh_2:15-17 ‘My Father’s House’
Joh_2:23-24 Imperfect Faith
Joh_2:25 Christ’s Knowledge of Man
Joh_3:1 Nicodemus
Joh_3:2-3 A Momentous Interview
Joh_3:7 New Birth
Joh_3:9 The Puzzled Inquirer
Joh_3:14 The Gift of the Cross
Joh_3:16 The Magna Charta of Christianity
Joh_3:16 Three Mysteries
Joh_3:19 Out of Darkness into Light
Joh_3:29 The Joy of the Bridegroom’s Friend
Joh_4:7 Christ’s Longing for Human Sympathy
Joh_4:24 Worship
Joh_4:24 Spiritual Religion
Joh_4:35 Look on the Fields
Joh_4:37 Sowing and Reaping
Joh_4:42 Reasons for Faith
Joh_4:48-50 The Nobleman’s Son
Joh_5:4 The Troubling of the Waters
Joh_5:14 The Pardon of Sin
Joh_5:19 Submission and Service
Joh_5:28-29 The Two Resurrections
Joh_5:39 The Testimony of the Scriptures
Joh_5:39 Bible Reading
Joh_5:39 The Devotional Study of Scripture
Joh_5:39 The Doctrinal Study of Scripture
Joh_5:39 Christ’s Fulfilment of the Scriptures
Joh_5:46 The Testimony of Moses
Joh_5:46 Christ in the Old Testament
Joh_6:4-5 Christ and the Great Company
Joh_6:4-5 Love, Power, Order
Joh_6:4-5 Superficial, yet Profound
Joh_6:11 Co-operation with God
Joh_6:12 All Need Supplied
Joh_6:12 Let Nothing be Lost
Joh_6:14 Prophecy Fulfilled
Joh_6:15 The King and the Kingdom
Joh_6:21 Christ’s Presence in Trouble
Joh_6:27 The Labour Question
Joh_6:28-29 The Work of Faith
Joh_6:35 Spiritual Food
Joh_6:35 The Bread of Life
Joh_6:37 The Golden Promise
Joh_6:39 Impersonal Resurrection
Joh_6:48 Mystery and Religion
Joh_6:51 The Eucharist
Joh_6:57 The Food of the Saints
Joh_6:57 Christ’s Gift
Joh_6:61 A Spiritual Plummet
Joh_6:63 Words of Life
Joh_6:67 Falling Away
Joh_6:67 A Touching Appeal
Joh_6:68 Abiding with Christ
Joh_6:70-71 The Downfall of Judas
Joh_7:13 Ashamed of Jesus
Joh_7:17 Knowledge and Love
Joh_7:17 Knowledge and Understanding
Joh_7:18 The Negation of Self
Joh_7:37 Thirst Assuaged
Joh_7:39 The Progressive Work of the Spirit
Joh_7:46 The Words of Jesus
Joh_7:46 Christ’s Teaching
Joh_8:9 Alone with Jesus
Joh_8:11 Moral Offences
Joh_8:12 The Light of the World
Joh_8:12 Christ and Social Progress
Joh_8:12 The Light Giver
Joh_8:12 Walking in the Light
Joh_8:12 The Followers’ Reward
Joh_8:12 ‘The Light of Life’
Joh_8:21 Seeking in Vain
Joh_8:31 Discipleship
Joh_8:32 Freedom through the Truth
Joh_8:36 Christ the Liberator
Joh_8:36 ‘Free Indeed’
Joh_8:46 The Sinlessness of Christ
Joh_8:46 The Mystery of Evil
Joh_8:48 A Blasphemous Charge
Joh_8:51 How to Escape Death
Joh_9:1-3 The Mystery of Suffering
Joh_9:4 The Brevity of Life
Joh_9:4 The Purpose of Life
Joh_9:25 ‘One Thing I Know’
Joh_9:35 ‘Do We Believe?’
Joh_9:38 Belief and Worship
Joh_9:39 For Judgment
Joh_9:39-41 Responsibility and Sin
Joh_10:3 ‘The Porter of the Door’
Joh_10:3 The First Days of Spiritual Life
Joh_10:3 The Calling of the Sheep
Joh_10:4 The Sheep and the Shepherd
Joh_10:4 The Guiding Shepherd
Joh_10:4 The Voice of the Shepherd
Joh_10:9 Christ the Door
Joh_10:10 Motives of Work for God
Joh_10:10 The Gift of Life
Joh_10:11 The Good Shepherd
Joh_10:11 The Divine Shepherd
Joh_10:11 The Ideal Shepherd
Joh_10:14 Individual Knowledge
Joh_10:14 The Gentleness of Christ
Joh_10:14 ‘That I may Know Him’
Joh_10:14-15 Fourfold Knowledge
Joh_10:16 ‘All Souls are Mine’
Joh_10:16 The Unfolded Flock
Joh_10:16 The Church’s Mission
Joh_10:19 Not Peace, but a Sword
Joh_10:28 A Cluster of Grapes
Joh_10:37-38 The Evidence of the Miracles
Joh_11:1 The Discipline of Sickness
Joh_11:5 A Loved Family
Joh_11:6 Divine Delay
Joh_11:9 Life and Work
Joh_11:11 He Giveth His Beloved Sleep
Joh_11:16 ‘That we may Die with Him’
Joh_11:16 Thomas, the Devoted Disciple
Joh_11:25 The Mourner’s Hope
Joh_11:28 Characteristics of the Master
Joh_11:35 The Tears of Christ
Joh_11:35 Tears of Sympathy
Joh_11:43-44 The Raising of Lazarus
Joh_11:52 The Gathered Ones
Joh_12:3 An Offering of Love
Joh_12:7 A Good Work
Joh_12:12-14 The Triumphal Entry
Joh_12:21 A Great Aspiration
Joh_12:24 Death the Fulfilment of Life
Joh_12:24 Life Through Death
Joh_12:26 A Life of Service
Joh_12:27-28 The Sanctification of Sorrow
Joh_12:29 Voices of God
Joh_12:29 A Divided Crowd
Joh_12:32 The Attractive Power of Christ
Joh_12:32 The Christian Ideal
Joh_12:32 The Majesty of the Divine Humiliation
Joh_12:32 ‘The Power of God’
Joh_13:1 Perfect Love
Joh_13:1 Unto the End
Joh_13:7 The Mystery of Faith
Joh_13:13 The Call to Service
Joh_13:17 Missionary Service
Joh_13:17 Knowledge and Practice
Joh_13:23 The Beloved Disciple
Joh_13:23 On Jesus’ Bosom
Joh_13:25 A Pattern of Intercession
Joh_13:34 The New Commandment
Joh_13:34-35 Christian Philanthropy
Joh_14:1 Trouble and its Remedy
Joh_14:1 His only Son, Our Lord
Joh_14:2 The Father’s House
Joh_14:2 Communion with the Departed
Joh_14:2 Many Mansions
Joh_14:2 Sufficiency of Revelation
Joh_14:2 Heaven
Joh_14:2 The Lord’s Departure
Joh_14:6 The Living Way
Joh_14:6 Characteristics of Truth
Joh_14:6 The Christ Life
Joh_14:6 Living in Christ
Joh_14:6 Characteristics of Life
Joh_14:8 On Knowing God
Joh_14:9 Power through Christ
Joh_14:12 Greater Works
Joh_14:15-17 The Mission of the Spirit of Truth
Joh_14:15-17 Another Comforter
Joh_14:15-17 Grounds of Comfort
Joh_14:15-17 Comforter, Advocate, Guide
Joh_14:17 The Indwelling Christ
Joh_14:19 Life through Christ
Joh_14:21-23 Coming and Abiding
Joh_14:26 The Divine Teacher
Joh_14:27 The Peace of Christ
Joh_15:4 Abiding in Christ
Joh_15:5 The Union of Christ and the Believer
Joh_15:5 Apart from the Vine
Joh_15:11 Christian Joy
Joh_15:15 Friends of Jesus
Joh_15:26-27 Witness-Bearing
Joh_15:26-27 Witnessing for Christ
Joh_15:27 Qualifications for Witness
Joh_16:5 Christ’s Sorrowful Surprise
Joh_16:7 Christ and His People
Joh_16:7 The Guidance of the Spirit
Joh_16:7 Before Pentecost
Joh_16:8 Conviction of Sin
Joh_16:8 The Holy Spirit and the World
Joh_16:8 Convictions of the Spirit
Joh_16:8-9 The Reproof of the Comforter
Joh_16:12 Many Things to be Revealed
Joh_16:13 Guidance and Truth
Joh_16:13 The Spirit and the Church
Joh_16:14 Spiritual Revelation
Joh_16:14 The Function of the Paraclete
Joh_16:16 Absent and Present
Joh_16:16 The Little While
Joh_16:20 The Problem of Suffering
Joh_16:22 Joy which Abides
Joh_16:23 ‘In My Name’
Joh_16:33 Two Contrasted Conceptions
Joh_17:2 The Authority of Christ
Joh_17:3 The Only True God
Joh_17:4 The Work of Life
Joh_17:11 Christian Unity
Joh_17:15 Holy Keeping
Joh_17:17 Christian Sanctity
Joh_17:19 The Consecration of Personality
Joh_17:19 Secrets of Sanctity
Joh_17:21 Our Unhappy Divisions
Joh_17:21 Visible Unity
Joh_17:22 ‘One with Him’
Joh_17:24 Christ’s Wish for His People
Joh_18:1 Gethsemane
Joh_18:1 The Shadowed Garden
Joh_18:36 Not of this World
Joh_18:36 The Church and the State
Joh_18:37 The King Jesus
Joh_19:5 Lessons from Calvary
Joh_19:9 Pilate’s Question
Joh_19:15 The Crucifixion of the King
Joh_19:26-27 The Most Pathetic Phrase in God’s Word
Joh_19:26-27 The Word of Tender Care
Joh_19:26-27 The Identity of Human and Divine Love
Joh_19:26-27 Bereavement
Joh_19:28 The Thirst of Christ
Joh_19:28 The Words of Simple Human Nature
Joh_19:28 The Crisis Reached
Joh_19:28 The Appeal from the Cross
Joh_19:28 The Thirst for Fellowship
Joh_19:28 Divine Thirst
Joh_19:30 The Finished Word
Joh_19:30 The Victory of the Passion
Joh_19:30 ‘’Tis Finished, All is Finished’
Joh_19:38-39 From Cowardice to Confession
Joh_20:1 The Visit of Mary Magdalene
Joh_20:1 The Empty Tomb
Joh_20:6-7 The Testimony of the Grave-clothes
Joh_20:8 Easter Thoughts
Joh_20:9 The Power of His Resurrection
Joh_20:11 What Mary saw through her Tears
Joh_20:17 ‘Touch Me Not’
Joh_20:17 Reverence for the Supernatural
Joh_20:19 The Lord’s Day
Joh_20:19 The Message of Peace
Joh_20:23 The Remission of Sins
Joh_20:24 The Absence of Thomas
Joh_20:27 The Appearance to Thomas
Joh_20:29 The Beatitude of Faith
Joh_21:1 Christ’s Resurrection Life
Joh_21:4 (r.v.) A Manifestation of the Risen Lord
Joh_21:6 The Right Side of the Ship
Joh_21:12 The Unchanging Christ
Joh_21:15 The Asking Christ
Joh_21:18 The Renewal of St. Peter
Joh_21:18 The Two Girdings
Joh_21:20 John the Evangelist