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You couldn’t know. Neither can I or anyone else. There isn’t enough information provided for us to know. All we can do is consider the possibilities, think about them, learn and grow.

Maybe the person was his mother. Maybe the person was another of his relatives. Maybe the person was his neighbor. It reminds me of the story where Jesus asks, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers and sisters?” It reminds me of Jesus saying we are to love others as you love yourself, and...

An important component of the discussion. A lesson in itself. I agree. There is a theme of growth and repentance in his role. When I see the adult I see him through the eyes of a pastor and I think of him as being a pastor. That’s a bias on my part. The first time I watched the film, my...

Are we certain that either the child or the teacher is Christian? Maybe one is and one isn’t. Maybe neither of them is. Maybe both of them are.

Thank you for watching and sharing. Just as silence speaks (we mustn’t be too quick to decide what the silence means) so too, you remind us, do our emotions. There are so many themes touched on in this short but powerful film. Who is the true teacher? The misunderstood and mistreated child...

3, 240, 889 views, 52k reactions, and 2.4k comments in four years. 70 views, 0 reactions, and 0 comments in three weeks. So much could be said. Nothing is said. Silence speaks too.

“Search the Bible for yourself. Do not take your religion at second-hand from another.” - Charles Spurgeon

The idea to clarify? From a scribe copying what he was given. An interesting suggestion put forth by some: it may have come later by John himself.

Does it matter? Would those who were there at the time when it happened know or not know what the man was talking about? I think it was added later for the benefit of those who weren’t there at the time that it happened so that they / we would understand what the man was talking about.

We had professors with diverse theological backgrounds. (They weren’t all from the same denomination. I was the same age or older than a number of them.) I listened to their lectures and, for the most part, found them to be reasonable. But I also watched as young students swallowed everything...

I think verse 7 makes sense without verse 4 and verse 4 provides helpful background information. When I preach on this chapter I always include it, sometimes commenting on the textual issue but oftentimes not. What I find interesting is that scribes flagged it long ago as a caution to those who...