Answering a Professing Faith Healer with Just One Word

Guest article by Steve Higginbotham

While flying home from Denver, Colo., last week, I sat next to a man who was reading his Bible. We struck up a conversation and I soon realized he believed he had the spiritual gift of healing.

After giving me a couple examples of how he used his powers, he asked me if I believed what he was saying. I told him that my beliefs aren’t based on experiences, which can sometimes be deceptive, but upon what the Bible teaches. I then proceeded to explain 1 Corinthians 13 and Ephesians 4 as he followed along in his Bible.

When I finished he said, “I see what you’re saying, and have never really studied this before, so I don’t have an answer, but what I do have are my experiences, and I know that God has given me the power to heal.”

So for the remainder of the flight (nearly three hours), this man recounted story after story of his alleged healings. I had already made my point that my beliefs aren’t based on experiences but upon what the Bible teaches, so as he shared these stories, I simply let him talk. There was no need to argue point by point with all the stories he told, but as I sat and listened, I wondered what I could say that would expose his error.

When we eventually touched down and regained phone signal, this man’s phone dinged.  He had a text message from his son. It was a picture of his son’s finger that had been cut while he was using a weed-eater. When this man saw the picture of his son’s finger, he said, “Oh no, my son has cut his finger and from the looks of the picture, he will probably need a few stitches. I need to get off this plane and take him to the hospital.”

It was then that I broke my silence and simply asked, “Why?”

The man swung his head around and stared at me with a look that resembled that of a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar. For a moment, he just froze. It looked like he was searching for words, but they escaped him.

The force of that one word was convicting. This man had just spent nearly three hours trying to prove he had the power to heal people, but his first thought when he saw that his son was injured was to take him to the hospital.

The take-away from this story is that one word that has the backing of Scripture is more convicting than thousands of words lacking Scriptural backing.

This article was first published on Steve’s site Preaching Help.

Once Saved ... Then Lost

There are many Scriptures that describe the security we have in Christ, as we keep the faith and walk in His light. These include Rom 8:31-39; Phil 1:6; and John 10:28-29. All of these indicate that God is greater than any outside threat to our salvation. No external force can overpower Him and destroy us against our will. How encouraging and reassuring that is!

However, many have taken these and other passages to mean that one who is once saved can never be lost, even if he abandons the faith and rejects the Lord! They may argue either [1] that such a person was never saved to begin with, or [2] that the person’s apostasy is temporary or not a threat to their salvation. Some say the Bible’s warnings are only intended to distinguish the truly saved from the never saved.

Where did these ideas originate? Ultimately they began with the teaching of Calvinism and Reformed Theology. This doctrine holds that the saved have been pre-selected by God and that their salvation has been predetermined since eternity. It presents faith itself as a sovereign gift of God, which He could never retract. It says that, as a result, it is impossible for one to lose his or her faith or her salvation. After all, how could God guarantee to save someone, no matter what, then plant faith in them through irresistible grace, and then ultimately allow them to be lost? To the Calvinist this is unthinkable, because to him it contradicts the sovereignty of God.

So, if you are studying with a person who believes in "once saved, always saved," be aware that this doctrine is fundamental and beyond dispute for many who have accepted it. When you show Scripture indicating that a person once saved can later be lost, your friend may think you are teaching salvation by works. 

The Bible does not teach salvation by works, but it does teach salvation by faith! The implication is that, if one abandons the faith, or rejects faith and makes it shipwreck (see 1 Tim 1:19-20), that person is no longer saved by faith.

The Bible itself has a beautiful balance of two truths. One is that we are saved by the grace of God through faith, and not by our own works. The other is that we must continue in faith in order to remain connected to God’s grace that saves. All are free to have faith. All are free to reject faith. All are free to move from unbelief to faith, and from faith back to unbelief.

Note the two concepts here.

1 John 1:7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.

And again here.

2 Tim 2:11 It is a trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him; 12 If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us; 13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

Now let’s follow up on this second truth, that those who begin with faith may then abandon that faith and be lost. Here are Scriptures that clearly teach the possibility of a once-saved person later becoming eternally lost.

Mark 4:17 “and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they fall away.”

John 15:2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”

I Cor 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

1 Cor 10:5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

1 Cor 10: 11-12 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

Gal 5:4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

Gal 5:21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gal 6:1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

Col 1:23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Heb 2:1 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

Heb 3:6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

Heb 3:12-14 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

Heb 4:1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

Heb 4:11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

Heb 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they cruciöl again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

Heb 10:26-31 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The LORD will judge His people. “ 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Heb 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

James 5:19-20 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way .will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

2 Pet 2:20-21 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

2 Pet 3:17 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked;

Rev 2:10 “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life."

Shall Women be Preachers?

Eph 4:11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ …

The call to accept and encourage female preachers is not new, nor is the support for it new. The argument goes something like this. “Only Paul opposed women speaking up in the assembly, only in a couple of passages, and only in specific cultural settings. Maybe Paul contradicted Jesus, but Jesus was right and Paul was wrong. Jesus would have accepted female preachers; He said nothing against it. Besides, women who ‘have the gift’ or ‘feel the call’ must be allowed to preach. It’s a God thing! Those who resist are legalists who lack love and do not understand grace. However, they are still to be loved and somewhat pitied for their lack of enlightenment.”

As we begin let’s note that there is a bigger issue at stake here. It is quite surprising to me that anyone would discuss the specific question of female preachers apart from the wider question: “What does the Bible teach about the distinctive nature and roles of men and women?” After all, Paul (by the Holy Spirit’s inspiration) finds God’s answer to this question in Genesis! Creation and the fall, not any first-century culture or problem, are said to be the basis for addressing this matter. Note the following:

1 Tim 2:11–15 (ESV)

11 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. 15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Now look at 1 Cor 14. Some claim that 1 Cor 14 has to do only with the problems in that one setting, because of particular problems in Corinth. The text will not permit that inference. Note that Paul (again by the Holy Spirit’s inspiration) says regarding this instruction, “As in all the churches of the saints …” That seems clear enough.

There is more. The text makes it clear that this teaching is “as the Law also says.” The Law stipulated this arrangement, long before the gospel came to Corinth. The culture did not precede or determine the principle. Rather the God-given principle was the unchanging basis that was applied to the culture. Read the following carefully:

1 Cor 14:33–35 (ESV)

33 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, 34 the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. 35 If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

So let’s return to the underlying issue: the distinctive roles of men and women. The subject of male spiritual leadership and responsibility, a mega-theme throughout Scripture, runs counter to our modern secular culture. Today’s politically correct (and “religiously correct!”) society seems almost to say that men and women are basically interchangeable and that there is no inherent distinction between the sexes and the roles they may fulfill.

The Bible’s message, however, has not changed. And it is unmistakably clear. Here are some principles and truths it declares.

God created both man and woman in His image to have dominion over all creation under His authority. Implication: man and woman are equal in value, in significance, and in esteem. Gen 1

God created man first and created the woman from the man as a suitable helper for him. Implication: man and woman are different in order of creation and in respective roles. Gen 2

The woman was deceived by the serpent and gave the forbidden fruit to the man. Implication: the woman disqualified herself from taking spiritual leadership. Gen 3; 1 Tim 2:11-15

God then said to the woman, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” Gen 3:16

God chose a man named Moses. Moses chose “able men” to serve as judges. He chose twelve male spies.

God chose a man named Aaron and his male descendants to serve as High Priests.

God chose a man named Levi and his male descendants to serve as priests and to lead the worship assemblies.

God chose male judges to deliver His people from oppression. The notable exception of Deborah is just that, an exception, which shows what happens when men like Barak refuse to lead.

God chose a man named David and his male descendants to be kings.

God chose numerous male prophets to preach.

What about the New Testament? Does the creation order no longer apply? Are men and women interchangeable, with no distinctions between their roles? Did Jesus change the original framework, and did Paul then contradict Jesus? Far from it.

Jesus chose twelve men to be His apostles. He commissioned these men (minus Judas Iscariot) to take the gospel to the entire world.

Jesus affirmed the Genesis account of creation and quoted it regarding marriage. Jesus never said anything that challenged or contradicted the truth of Genesis. Matt 19:1-9

Jesus in His parables consistently portrayed the father as the leader of the home. Cf. the Prodigal Son, the Marriage Feast, etc.

Jesus in His teaching consistently portrayed the father as the provider of the home. Luke 11:11-13

Jesus in His teaching consistently portrayed the Father using male terminology.

On the Day of Pentecost, the preachers were all men. They were the apostles. Note that this occurred in Jerusalem, not Corinth, before Paul ever became a follower and supposedly “invented” this idea to address a need in Corinth. Acts 2:7, 14, 37

Before Paul even became a Christian, the Holy Spirit directed the male apostles to appoint male servants to oversee the care of the Greek-speaking widows in the church. Acts 6

Before Paul even became a Christian, the Holy Spirit directed two men, Stephen and Philip, to preach. Acts 7, 8

Before Paul ever wrote 1 Cor or 1 Tim, the Holy Spirit directed that males would be appointed as elders to oversee every church. Acts 14:23

The only person specifically called an “evangelist” (one who preaches the good news) was a man named Philip. Acts 21:8

Women in the first century prophesied, but they were not permitted to do so in the church assembly. Acts 21:9; 1 Cor 11:4-5; 14:33-35

Paul (by the Holy Spirit’s inspiration) wrote that elders and deacons were to be men, each “the husband of one wife.” 1 Tim 3

Paul appointed males – Timothy and Titus – to preach and to lead churches in Ephesus and Crete.

Peter (by the Holy Spirit’s inspiration) also understood and stated the principle of male spiritual leadership. 1 Pet 3:1-7

According to the Greek text of Eph 4:11-16, the terms apostles, prophets, pastors / shepherds, and teachers were all masculine. They referred to male leaders in the church.

Male spiritual leadership is a grave, sobering responsibility. The fact is that men will give account to God for this stewardship. This is not the time for women to do what God expects of men. It is time for men to be men. "Preach the Word."

Cory Collins

Answering – and Asking – Jesus’ Questions

I recently found a list of questions Jesus asked. The anonymous author wrote, “Jesus never asked a question because he needed to know the answer.  He used questions the way a surgeon uses a scalpel, to cut delicately into a new level of understanding.”

These powerful, probing questions demand thought and answers still today. As you read them, please leave a comment about one or more that you find among the most interesting and/or challenging.

The better we are able to answer Jesus’ questions for ourselves, the more effective we will be in asking others the questions that will help them follow Him. So first let’s answer Jesus! Then let’s ask others what He would ask!

1.    If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? (Matt 5:46)

2.    If you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? (Matt 5:47)

3.    Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? (Matt 6:27)

4.    Why do you worry about clothes? (Matt 6:28)

5.    Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matt 7:3)

6.    Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? (Matt 7:16)

7.    Why are you so afraid? (Matt 8:26)

8.    Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? (Matt 9:4)

9.    Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? (Matt 9:5)

10. How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? (Matt 9:15)

11. Do you believe that I am able to do this? (Matt 9:28)

12. What did you go out into the desert to see? (Matt 11:7)

13. To what can I compare this generation? (Matt 11:16)

14. If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?  (Matt 12:11)

15. How can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man?  (Matt 12:29)

16. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? (Matt 12:34)

17. Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? (Matt 12:48)

18. Why did you doubt? (Matt 14:31)

19. Why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? (Matt 15:3)

20. How many loaves do you have?  (Matt 15:34)

21. Do you still not understand? (Matt 16:9)

22. Who do people say the Son of Man is? (Matt 16:13)

23. Who do you say I am? (Matt 16:15)

24. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matt 16:26)

25. How long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? (Matt 17:17)

26. From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes–from their own sons or from others? (Matt 17:25)

27. What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? (Matt 18:12)

28. Why do you ask me about what is good? (Matt 19:17)

29. What is it you want? (Matt 20:21)

30. Can you drink the cup I am going to drink? (Matt 20:22)

31. What do you want me to do for you? (Matt 20:32)

32. John’s baptism—where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or from men? (Matt 21:25)

33. What do you think? (Matt 21:28)

34. Which son did his father’s will? (Matt 21:31)

35. Have you never read in the Scriptures? (Matt 21:42)

36. Why are you trying to trap me? (Matt 22:18)

37. What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he? (Matt 22:42)

38. Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? (Matt 23:17-19)

39. How will you escape being condemned to hell? (Matt 23:33)

40. Why are you bothering this woman? (Matt 26:10)

41. Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour? (Matt 26:40)

42. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? (Matt 26:53)

43. But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way? (Matt 26:54)

44. Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? (Matt 26:55)

45. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Matt 27:46)

46. Why are you thinking these things? (Mark 2:8)

47. Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? (Mark 4:21)

48. What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? (Mark 4:30)

49. Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith? (Mark 4:40)

50. What is your name? (Mark 5:9)

51. Who touched my clothes? (Mark 5:30)

52. Why all this commotion and wailing? (Mark 5:39)

53. Are you so dull? (Mark 7:18)

54. Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? (Mark 7:18)

55. Why does this generation ask for a miraculous sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to it. (Mark 8:12)

56. Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? (Mark 8:17-18)

57. When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up? (Mark 8:19)

58. When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up? (Mark 8:20)

59. Do you still not understand? (Mark 8:21)

60. [To the blind man] Do you see anything? (Mark 8:23)

61. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected? (Mark 9:12)

62. What were you arguing about on the road? (Mark 9:33)

63. Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? (Mark 9:50)

64. What did Moses command you? (Mark 10:3)

65. Why do you call me good? (Mark 10:18)

66. What do you want me to do for you? (Mark 10:51)

67. Why are you trying to trap me? (Mark 12:15)

68. Do you see all these great buildings? (Mark 13:2)

69. Are you asleep? (Mark 14:37)

70. Could you not keep watch for one hour? (Mark 14:37)

71. Why were you searching for me? (Luke 2:49)

72. Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house? (Luke 2:49)

73. Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? (Luke 5:22)

74. Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? (Luke 5:23)

75. Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? (Luke 6:46)

76. Where is your faith? (Luke 8:25)

77. What is your name? (Luke 8:30)

78. Who touched me? (Luke 8:45)

79. Will you be lifted up to the skies? (Luke 10:15)

80. What is written in the Law? How do you read it? (Luke 10:26)

81. Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers? (Luke 10:36)

82. Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? (Luke 11:40)

83. Who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you? (Luke 12:14-15)

84. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? (Luke 12:25)

85. Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? (Luke 12:57)

86. Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? (Luke 14:31)

87. Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? (Luke 14:34)

88. Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? (Luke 15:4)

89. Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? (Luke 15:8)

90. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? (Luke 16:11)

91. Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? (Luke 17:17)

92. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? (Luke 18:7)

93. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8)

94. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? (Luke 22:27)

95. Why are you sleeping?  (Luke 22:46)

96. For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry? (Luke 23:31)

97. What are you discussing together as you walk along? (Luke 24:17)

98. What things? (Luke 24:19)

99. Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory? (Luke 24:26)

100.       Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? (Luke 24:38)  

101.       Do you have anything here to eat? (Luke 24:41)

102.       What do you want? (John 1:38)

103.       Why do you involve me? (John 2:4)

104.       You are Israel’s teacher, and do you not understand these things? (John 3:10)

105.       I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? (John 3:12)

106.       Will you give me a drink? (John 4:7)

107.       Do you want to get well? (John 5:6)

108.       How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God? (John 5:44)

109.       If you do not believe Moses’ writings how will you believe me? (John 5:47)

110.       Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat? (John 6:5)

111.       Does this offend you? (John 6:61)

112.       What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! (John  6:62)

113.       You do not want to leave too, do you? (John 6:67)

114.       Have I not chosen you? (John 6:70)

115.       Has not Moses given you the law? (John 7:19)

116.       Why are you trying to kill me? (John7:19)

117.       Why are you angry with me for healing the whole man on the Sabbath? (John 7:23)

118.       Where are they? Has no one condemned you? (John 8:10)

119.       Why is my language not clear to you? (John 8:43)

120.       Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?  (John 8:46)

121.       If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? (John 8:46)

122.       Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? (John 10:36)

123.       Are there not twelve hours of daylight? (John 11:9)

124.       Do you believe this? (John 11:26)

125.       Where have you laid him? (John 11:33)

126.       Do you understand what I have done for you? (John 13:12)

127.       Don’t you know me, even after I have been among you such a long time? (John 14:9)       

128.       Who is it you want? (John 18:4,7)

129.       Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me? (John 18:11)

130.       Is that your own idea, or did others talk to you about me? (John 18:34)

131.       Why question me? (John 18:21)

132.       If I spoke the truth, why did you strike me? (John 18:23)

133.       Why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for? (John 20:15)

134.       Friends, haven’t you any fish? (John 21:5)

135.       Do you love me? (John 21:17)

136.       What is that to you? (John 21:22)

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