How Jesus Dealt with John the Apostle | G. Campbell Morgan Sermon Breakdown

What does "Come and see" mean in John 1:35-39 (KJV)? G. Campbell Morgan traces how Jesus dealt with John the Apostle, the disciple whom Jesus loved.

G. Campbell Morgan Sermon Breakdown, hosted by Matt Hepner and TopLobsta.

Matt reads G. Campbell Morgan's chapter on John the Apostle and stops to talk it through. Morgan starts with John's background: son of Zebedee and Salome, partner in the fishing business with Simon and Andrew, from a family with hired servants, a cousin of Jesus after the flesh (Matthew 27:55-56), and a man with a house in Jerusalem, where he took Mary after the cross (John 19:26-27).

Then Morgan follows John through the Gospels and turns to the Lord's methods with him: "What seek ye?" (John 1:38), the invitation to "come and see" (John 1:39), which Morgan ties to Revelation 1:1-2 where John "bare record ... of all things that he saw," the call to be fishers of men (Mark 1:17), the name Boanerges, sons of thunder (Mark 3:17), the sharp corrections ("Forbid him not," and the wish to call down fire, Luke 9:49-56), the way of the cross (Mark 10:38-39), and the confidence Jesus showed in trusting John with His mother and with the Revelation. It closes on John 21:20-23: "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?"

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Questions answered

• Was John the Apostle a cousin of Jesus? (14:32)

• Why did James and John ask to sit at Jesus' right hand and left? (29:33)

• What does "Come and see" mean in John 1? (44:04)

• Why did Jesus call James and John "sons of thunder"? (52:33)

• What did Jesus mean by "If I will that he tarry"? (1:12:06)

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