For May 25, 2026
Jesus Through John’s Eyes by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
THE APOSTLE JOHN , “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (six times in John’s gospel, cf. John 13:23), lived a long and fruitful spiritual life. He left a testimony of his relationship with Jesus that gives remarkable insight to Christian spiritual formation and patient endurance. (cf. Rev. 14:12) Scripture records two versions of his first encounter with Jesus. One shows our John, along with Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, as a disciple of John the Baptist hearing his testimony of the Messiah upon seeing Jesus nearby, “Look, the Lamb of God!” (John. 1:36) John, in his usual anonymous and self-deprecatory expression, says in his own rendition of this gospel that he and Andrew “followed Jesus. Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, ‘What do you want?’ They said, ‘Rabbi, where are you staying?’ ‘Come,’ he replied, ‘and you will see.’ So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him.” (John 1:37-39)