Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and John 7:37-43.

 In John’s Gospel, Jesus makes appearances at the three major Jewish feasts—Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. For John, Jesus completes the deepest meaning of these feasts. In this chapter, Jesus secretly goes up for the Feast of Tabernacles, called Sukkot in Hebrew—the harvest festival, around mid-October, recalling the times when the people would set up tents in the fields as they gathered in the crops. It also brings to mind the temporary dwellings of God’s people as they journeyed through the wilderness.

The last day of Sukkot, is a feast called Simchat Torah, “The Joy of the Torah.” The Torah readings are completed and the cycle begins again. At this service, prayers for rain are said. In Jesus’s time, each day of The Feast of Tabernacles, water was brought, recalling the water from the rock in Exodus 17. “He who believes in me … out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” Come to your Rock and drink.

John 7

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Fridays are dedicated to the Gospels.
In the Seasons of Lent and Easter this year we read the Gospel of John.

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