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APPENDIX 5: DESCRIPTIONS OF SALVATION IN JOHN’S GOSPEL

© Rosemary Bardsley 2009

Ref.

Description of salvation

1:7

Might believe

1:9

Gives light

1:12

Gave the right to become children of God

1:13

Children … born of God

1:16

Received from the fullness of his grace one blessing after another

3:3

See the kingdom of God

3:3,7

Be born again

3:5

Enter the kingdom of God

3:5,6,8

Born … of the Spirit

3:15,16, 36;12:50

Eternal life

3:18

Is not condemned

4:14 ; 7:37-38

Never thirst

5:24 ; 6:54

Has eternal life

5:24

Will not be condemned

5:24

Has crossed over from death to life

5:25 ,29; 14:19

Live

6:35

Never go hungry, never be thirsty

6:37

All the Father gives me … I will never drive away

6:39,54

I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day

6:40

Have eternal life and be raised up at the last day

6:45

Taught by God

6:47

Has everlasting life

6:50

Not die

6:56

Remains in me and I in him

6:57

Lives because of me

6:58

Live forever

6:65

Enables by the Father to come to Jesus

7:37-39; 14:16-26

Indwelling Spirit

8:12

Not walk in darkness but have the light of life

8:32

Know the truth and the truth will set you free

8:47

Belongs to God, hears what God says

8:51

Never see death

10:9

Be saved … find pasture

10:10

Have life … to the full

10:14

Know the shepherd

10:28

Cannot be snatched out of Christ’s hand

10:29

Given to Christ by the Father

Cannot be taken out of my Father’s hand

11:25-26

…will live, even though he dies … will never die

12:26

Will be where Christ is

12:26

My Father will honour the one who serves me

12:36

Sons of light

13:10

Clean

14:2-5

A place is prepared by Jesus for those who are his

14:6

Comes to the Father through Jesus

14:7

Knows the Father and has seen the Father

14:18-23

Indwelling Christ

14:21,23 ;16:27

Loved by Christ and the Father

14:21

Christ shows himself to those who are saved

14:23

Dwelling place of God

14:26 ; 15:26; 16:12-15

Taught all things by the Spirit

14:27; 16:30

Peace I leave with you

In me you may have peace

15:3

Already clean because of the word of Christ

15:11; 16:20-24; 17:13

Joy

Full measure of my joy within them

17:2,3

Eternal life; know you the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent

17:6,9,24

Given to Jesus by his Father

17:11

Protected by the power of God’s name

17:14

Have been given the Father’s word

17:17; 17:19

Sanctified by the truth

Truly sanctified

17:23

I in them and you in me … complete unity

17:23

You have …loved them even as you have loved me

17:24

… to be with me where I am, and to see my glory

17:25

Know the Father, know that the Father sent Jesus

17:26

The Father’s love for Christ may be in us, Christ in us

18:37

… on the side of the truth, listens to me

20:31

Have life in his name