And in that city believers reign with Christ forever. In Revelation 21, the lamb, Jesus, serves as the light for the city. Revelation ties these two gospel accounts and their respective themes together. But John’s opening excursus primarily focuses on light. In an earlier post, I showed how Matthew’s opening prologue emphasizes Jesus’ kingship and right to reign. Now that I’ve located every place “light” is used in my English Bible, I can dig into the underlying Greek and Hebrew to identify connections to John’s prologue. To search the whole Bible, all I need to do in the ESV is click the magnifying glass, and type “Light.” Now, I can go all the way back to Genesis where light is first pronounced “good.” Then I can read through all my search results, eventually coming all the way to Revelation 21:23, which reads, “The city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light and its lamp is the Lamb.”Īgain, this is re-iterated in Revelation 22:5, “And night will be no more, They will need no light of lamp or sun for the Lord will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.” But I’d like to expand my study and see how the term “light” is used throughout scripture. This is a fantastic reminder of the connection between light and life, and plays heavily into the incarnation. Hence, that life can be called light ( phōs), another of John’s words for the authentic life, the life of those who live in relationship with the Father as his children. Life is the true existence of humanity, the kind of existence intended for humanity at creation. Now, you see that as I scroll through my text, it automatically moves to the corresponding commentary.Īnd here I read, in Robert Kysar’s commentary:
Then, I go to my commentaries and add the same link set. It doesn’t matter which letter you use, but all the resources you link will need the same letter. In the ESV, go up to the upper left hand corner, open the resource menu and select Link Set: A. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to link your resources. I would like to see what the commentaries have to say about each of these verses. This helps me gain a clear picture of the passage outline, and helps me focus on the appropriate points of study. Yet another relation to the creation account. John here clearly relates this to Genesis and the creation narrative.ĥa Event – The light shines in the darkness. (New Testament Propositional Outlines are included in all Logos 6 base packages.) For our purposes, I’d like to highlight three tags.ģa Event – All things were made through him. This reformats Bible text into an outline that shows how ideas fit together, how the text flows, and how each line relates to the next. I’ve enabled Propositional Outlines in my ESV Bible.
CHRISTMAS BIBLE STUDY FOR SMALL GROUP PLUS
Then, drag and drop book icons from your library to the + Plus these resources section.Īs you can see, I’ve added three volumes, the Augsburg Commentary on the New Testament: John, The New Covenant Commentary on John, and the New American Commentary on Revelation.Create a collectionįirst, I want to gather my intended resources and create a collection:
Furthermore, John’s story takes us from Genesis through to Revelation. While those are indeed the two narrative treatments of the earthly events, John’s Gospel adequately recounts the spiritual and metaphysical side, as we’ll see today. I’ll be studying my favorite account of Jesus’ advent: the Gospel of John.īut wait! The Christmas story is only found in Matthew and Luke’s gospel! I beg to differ. Today, I’d like to walk you through how you can use Logos to prepare a Christmas Bible study, whether it be for your small group, or for the entire church.
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