Daily Bread Pastor Mike Anderson

The Good Shepherd and His Sheep 10  “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.   2  The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3  The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice.  He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.   4  When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.   5  But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”   6  Jesus used this figure of speech,  but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.   7  Therefore Jesus said again,  “Very truly I tell you, I am  the gate  for the sheep.   8  All who have come before me  are thieves and robbers,  but the sheep have not listened to them.   9  I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. [ a ]  They w

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind 9  As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.   2  His disciples asked him, “Rabbi,  who sinned,  this man  or his parents,  that he was born blind?”  3  “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,”  said Jesus,  “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.   4  As long as it is day,  we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.   5  While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”   After saying this, he spit  on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.   7  “Go,”  he told him,  “wash in the Pool of Siloam”  (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.   8  His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”   9  Some claimed that he was.  Others said, “No, he only looks like him.” But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”  10  “How then were your eyes opened?

Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles 7  After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders  there were looking for a way to kill him.   2  But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles  was near,   3  Jesus’ brothers  said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do.   4  No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”   5  For even his own brothers did not believe in him. 6  Therefore Jesus told them,  “My time  is not yet here; for you any time will do.   7  The world cannot hate you, but it hates me  because I testify that its works are evil.   8  You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because my time  has not yet fully come.”   9  After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee. The festival of the Tabernacles was one of three festivals the Jewish people went to on an annual ba

Then Jesus declared,  “I am  the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes  in me will never be thirsty.   36  But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.   37  All those the Father gives me  will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.   38  For I have come down from heaven  not to do my will but to do the will  of him who sent me.   39  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me,  but raise them up at the last day.   40  For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son  and believes in him shall have eternal life,  and I will raise them up at the last day.” Je sus has just finished feeding the five thousand with a few fish and the loaves. This was another sign Jesus performed to show the world who he really was. To zero in on what this sign meant Jesus says, “I am the bread of life.”  If I said to you “I am the bread of life” you would think  I

The Healing at the Pool 5  Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.   2  Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate  a pool, which in Aramaic  is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.   3  Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.   5  One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.   6  When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him,  “Do you want to get well?”  7  “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”  8  Then Jesus said to him,  “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”   9  At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.  The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,   10  and so the Jewish leaders  said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the la

  John 8 " But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.   2  At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.   3  The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group   4  and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.   5  In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.   Now what do you say?”   6  They were using this question as a trap,   in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7  When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone   at her.”   8  Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.  9  At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10  Jesus stra

Jesus Meets the Samaritan Women 7  When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her,  “Will you give me a drink?”   8  (His disciples had gone into the town  to buy food.)  9  The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan   woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. )  10  Jesus answered her,   “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”  11  “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?   12  Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well  and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”  13  Jesus answered,  “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14  but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.  Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water  welling up to eternal li