Conservative Friends Bible Study of The Gospel of John #19

John 11:38–57 

We study this part of John with clear attention to Greek terms that reshape belief as trust and signs as pointers beyond miracles. Lazarus’s raising, the council’s response, and the approach to Passover reveal how language, liberation, and wholehearted faith meet in practice.

• Belief as trust and confidence, not mere assent
• Christos as title Anointed, not a surname
• Names like Yeshua, Iakobos, Ioudas shifting across testaments
• Lazarus raised, unbind him as liberation motif
• Jesus deeply moved, nuance of Greek verbs
• signs pointing beyond miracles to God’s glory
• Council fear, Caiaphas’s unintended prophecy
• Children of God, adoption and unity
• Passover approaching, Jesus’s withdrawal to Ephraim