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.
3rd March 2023
Today we hear the account of Jesus’s encounter with the woman of Samaria. Jesus says, “The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Whoever drinks this water will never be thirsty again. His disciples return and marvel that he has been talking with a woman. She goes away to the town and encourages people to go and see the Christ.
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.
2nd March 2023
Many people were being baptised by John at Aenon near Salim, as water was plentiful there. John exalts Christ and says: “I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before 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.
1st March 2023
Today we encounter a man of the Pharisees called Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and is told he must be born again and believe.
We then learn the eternal truth: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
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 February 2023
During the Passover, Jesus goes to Jerusalem and visits the temple. He cleanses the temple and says, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The sellers and money-changers don’t realise he is talking about the temple of his body.
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 February 2023
Today, we’re in Galilee for the Wedding at Cana. We can hear the account of the first of the ‘signs’ – how Jesus turns the water into wine when the latter runs out.
This sign manifested His glory and the disciples believed in 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.JOhn
24th February 2023
Today we listen as Jesus calls the first disciples. Of the men who start to follow Jesus, Andrew said to his brother Simon, “We have found the Messiah.”
Then, Jesus goes to Galilee and calls Philip and Nathanael.
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 February 2023
Today we hear the testimony of John the Baptist: “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord'”.
Behold, the Lamb of God. John sees Jesus and declares, “I have seen and borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
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 February 2023
It’s Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, and this year 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.
In the first part of John Chapter 1, we celebrate that the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and then “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us”.
Grace and truth came through Jesus 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 February 2023
Canon Christopher Thomas, General Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference, introduces us to the Gospel of John. The purpose of John’s Gospel is not to present a narrative of Jesus’s life, we have these accounts in the other Gospels, but to underline who He is.
John draws us into a deeper relationship with the Risen Christ and seeks to strengthen our belief.
You can divide John’s Gospel into two sections – the Book of Signs and the Book of Glory. Listen as Canon Chris explains…
‘Reading John in Lent’ is a full reading of the Gospel on the weekdays and Saturdays of Lent concluding on the Friday of Easter Week.
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 our RSS Feed.
