During the weekdays and Saturdays of Lent, we’re bringing you daily podcasts from the Gospel of John – “the disciple whom Jesus loved”. Starting with an introduction from Canon Christopher Thomas on Shrove Tuesday, ‘Reading John in Lent’ starts in earnest on Ash Wednesday with John 1: 1-18, telling us how “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” – Jesus Christ, the only Son from the Father. We then follow the Gospel through all 22 chapters concluding on the Friday of Easter Week. Join us as for ‘Reading John in Lent’. Taken from the English Standard Version of the Bible.
31st March 2023
The disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'”.
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
30th March 2023
In today’s episode we learn about the work of the Holy Spirit: “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
29th March 2023
In today’s episode, Jesus says to the disciples, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
28th March 2023
In today’s episode, we learn the power of the Holy Spirit, which Jesus promises to the disciples.
“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
27th March 2023
Today we learn that Jesus and the Father are one. Thomas said to Jesus, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
25th March 2023
Jesus knew his hour to depart the world and be with the Father had come.
Before the Feast of the Passover, during supper, Jesus washed the feet of the disciples. At that moment, the disciples did not understand this act.
Jesus said to them, “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you this example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
24th March 2023
People still do not believe in Jesus, despite the many signs he has shown them, for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Today we listen to the words of the prophet Isaiah, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them”.
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
23rd March 2023
In today’s episode, Jesus enters Jerusalem. When the news spread that Jesus was coming, people went out to meet him and crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
22nd March 2023
In today’s episode, we listen as the Pharisees plot to kill Jesus. “You know nothing at all. Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
21st March 2023
Today we hear about the death of Lazarus. Jesus visits his sisters Martha and Mary, and weeps.
Jesus raises Lazarus. He cries out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”
The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
20th March 2023
It is winter and on the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, Jesus is walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.
The Jews ask him once again if he is the Christ:
“My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
18th March 2023
Today Jesus tells the Pharisees near him that he is the Good Shepherd.
“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series concludes on the Friday of Easter Week. Using the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), we’ll journey through John deepening our relationship with the Risen Christ.
You can subscribe to listen to Reading John in Lent using your podcasting platform of choice. Subscribe using Spotify, Amazon/Audible, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. You can also use the RSS Feed.
