To know Jesus is to know God because he is God (cf. John 1:1, 5:21; Colossians 1:15-20; Hebrews 1:3ff; etc.). One of the primary ways the God has established that we might know him is through his Scriptures/the Bible. When we are ignorant of the Bible, we are ignorant of God (cf. John 5:37-47).

Being a disciple of Jesus means, in part, that we are continually allowing him to redeem both our human categories (how we view/categorize the value/worth of others AND ourselves) and our human frailty (both physically and spiritually).

Though John's retelling of Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well is brief, it's chalked full of challenges for all that would become his disciples. Jesus challenges what we believe about humanity, sin, salvation, and worship.

In John 3:22-36, the primary difference between the Baptist and his disciples is not that one knew about Jesus and the others did not (they all knew of Jesus and his activity). The difference was what they knew about themselves! John knew who he was only because he knew who Christ was.

In John 2:13-22, John is ulitmately trying to show us is that Jesus’ cleansing of the temple is a lot more than just an act of [totally justified] moral outrage. Jesus, becoming the new/better/permanent temple is God’s love on display–and it makes the previous temple pale by comparison.

Signs, for John, answer the question, “Who is Jesus?” At the wedding feast in Cana, John reveals (amongst other things) that Jesus ushers in the messianic age in which wine (evidence of blessed fruitfulness and provision) will flow in overwhelming abundance and the mountains will drip with the best wine for the joy of God’s people (cf. Joel 3:18, Amos 9:13-14, and Her, 31:12

The invitation that Jesus provides to all of his disciples is a relationship–to be with him, to become like him, to do what he did–to find flourishing by joyfully and increasingly submitting every area of our lives to his empowering presence and Lordship!

"In Jesus, old covenant types (i.e. Adam, the Passover Lamb, the Tabernacle, etc.) give way to the new creation antitype—shadow is supplanted by substance. To “Behold, the Lamb of God” is to see in Jesus the arrival of the suffering servant of Isaiah’s prophecy (Isa. 53:4–12), who took the punishment we deserve to give us the grace we could never earn." — ESV Gospel Transformation Bible