Thursday 2021.07.22
My NT reading today covers John chapters ten and eleven. This passage includes an account of our Lord telling his audience three "I Am"s about himself.
Firstly, he told the Pharisees in 10:7 that he is the Door by which anyone who enters will be saved.
John 10:7 - 9 KJV
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Secondly, in 10:11 that he told them that he is the Good Shepherd who gives his life for the sheep.
John 10:11 - 16 KJV
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
And thirdly, in 11:25 the Lord told Martha whose brother Lazarus had died and was buried four days earlier, "I am the Resurrection and the Life".
John 11:25 - 26 KJV
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Having finished reading all the five books of the "Torah" (Genesis - Deuteronomy), I had started reading the "Neviim", beginning with the "Former Prophets" section which comprises six books, namely Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings six days ago.
By yesterday, I had finished reading Joshua. Today, I proceeded with the book of Judges, covering the first five chapters using Today's English Version.
See the organisation of OT books into Torah, Neviim, and Khetuvim in the Jewish Scriptures here.
And from the LXX Apocrypha I read chapter fourteen of 4th Maccabees.
Today's Passages:
Judges 1:1 - 5:31 TEV
John 10:1 - 11:57 NKJV
4 Maccabees 14:1 - 20 LXX
