V: Du fils de Zébédée (pas du tout Jacques!)

Let the reader BEWARE!

Réflexions pas faciles à comprendre
The notes to follow in this post are merely my thoughts written down
- notes taken while reading John chapter 7, then looking back over all my notes about the previous six chapters.

Therefore, read..
..and be confused..
..at your own risk!

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KNOWING GOD (the Son/Father)
~ Believe in Jesus
7(5)+(38)+(39)
++6(29)(30)(35)(36)(40)(47)(64)(69)
SubTotal of 11 times, Added to the 13 times already mentioned in first five chapters.

.. - GRAND Total of 24 times
[Believing in Jesus]
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~ [Accept/Receive] the Son's teaching which comes from
the Father who sent Him
7(16)
5(43)
3(33)
1(11)(12)
= Listening/Hear-then-React
7(51)
6(45)(60)
5(24)
1(40)

~come to Jesus & drink [cf. living water4:14, blood6:53-56?)
{ie. accept Him, participate[?]}
7(37)

Total of 13 times, plus inferences
[Accepting/Receiving/Listening-to/Hearing&Responding-to
the Words of Jesus]
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~On HIS initiative (inferred);
God the Father is the sender of God the Son (Jesus)
7(16)(28)(29)(33)
6(44)(65)(70)
5(23)(24)(30)(36)(37)(38)
4(7)
2(11)
1(6)(18)

Total of 17 times
[Knowing God is possible
only because He has Initiated this By Sending Jesus]

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KNOWING WHAT GOD WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO be/do/say/think
ie. Response to Him

~ Accepting Him/JESUS for who He is, accepting His *judgments* about us;
~ Seeking His *honour* & His will;
..~{not hate His sent One just because He testifies that [our] deeds are evil}
7(7)
..~right response to JESUS - not trying to kill Him or rejecting His Word/God's law given throu'Moses
7(19)+(28-30)
6(63)(68)
5(24)
4(41)(50)
2(22)
SubTotal of 10 times

5(32)(33)(36)(37)(39)
4(39)
3(11)(32)
1(7)(8)(15)(19)(32)(34)=testimony/witness
SubTotal of 15 times

.. - GRAND Total 25 times
[Accepting the Word/Testimony/Witness of the ones God sent]

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..~{choose to do God's *will*}
7(17)
..~{work for the *honour* of the sending God - as Jesus did[?] - truth, nothing false}
7(18)
..~right *judgment* of what JESUS does & why He does it - healing over law-keeping
7(23-24)
..~{recognise JESUS - whom God sent - as the Christ}
7(31)


L/T.