Summer 30 AD

Jesus Attends the First Passover of His Ministry

After the wedding at Cana, Jesus went down to Capernaum. This was His first visit to His future home, and would be His headquarters for most of His ministry. From here, Jesus went to Jerusalem and attended the first Passover of His ministry (John 2:13). When He came into the Temple, He found merchants that sold oxen, sheep, doves, and the money changers, or bankers. They were doing this to supply, to pilgrims, sacrifices to God -- but not at a fair price, but at greatly inflated prices. They were not even supposed to be doing this there. It was at this Passover that He first cleansed the Temple. He would do so again, near the end of His ministry (John 2:15-16). The Jews in the Temple did not question why He cleansed the Temple, their only question was by what authority He cleansed it. He then made a seemingly obscure reply by saying that they could destroy this temple, meaning His body, and that in three days, He would raise it back up again (John 2:18-19). This means that at the beginning of His ministry, Jesus knew about His coming death. Of course, the Jews nor His disciples understood this, but they would understand later when Jesus arose from the grave. They all thought He spoke of the actual stone temple that Solomon had built.

Nicodemus and The New Birth

Then a man named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, came to Jesus. He understood, he said, that Jesus was a teacher from God, because no man could do the miracles that He had done. Jesus answered him by saying that, unless a man is born again, he can not see the kingdom of God (John 3:1-3). Jesus then explained to him how to beborn again (John 3:5-8).He continued by telling Nicodemus that He had come to offer eternal life to those who believed (John 3:14-18).

Jesus and John then continued their ministries in Judea during the summer of 30 A.D., preaching that the kingdom of Heaven was at hand (John 3:22-26). Jesus then left Judea to go to Galilee through Samaria. Samaria is also called Sychar in the scriptures.


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