{"id":936,"date":"2010-07-30T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=936"},"modified":"2022-01-30T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T16:35:35","slug":"john-2030-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"John 20:30-31"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">30 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>These verses are John&#8217;s purpose statement.<\/h3>\n<h3>John indicates that he was selective in what he wrote. He only mentions six miracles specifically, although he states that there were others (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=572\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">John 2:23<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=574\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3:2<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=615\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">4:45<\/span><\/a>). He selected, with the guidance of the Spirit, the signs that prove Jesus is the Son of God.<\/h3>\n<h3>The &#8220;many other signs&#8221; (v. 30) may be referring to post-resurrection signs done in the presence of just His disciples.<\/h3>\n<h3>John was probably writing to those who already believed, encouraging them to continue in the faith. The verb tense of &#8220;believe&#8221; (v. 31) indicates an ongoing action.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=936\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study-gospel-of-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5863,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}