Conservative Friends Bible Study of The Gospel of John #20

John 12:1–19 We read John 12 with an eye for meaning, moving from Mary’s costly anointing to a king on a donkey and the tension between literal history and spiritual truth. We sit with hard questions about Judas, poverty, symbolism, and what counts as essential belief.• Why John’s timeline differs from the synoptics• Anointing at Bethany as humility, burial, and honor• Judas, the common purse, and ethics of the poor• Diakonos as service rather than slavery• Litra as possible burial measure and its weight• Plotting against Lazarus as reaction to living proof• Triumphal entry and Zechariah’s humble king• Early Friends, James Naylor, and costly witness• Remembering after glory as theology of insight• Discerning essentials: resurrection, birth, and belief• Physical–spiritual continuum and modern lensesA complete list of our podcasts,  organized into topics, is available on our website.We will be publishing video interviews with Conservative Friends on YouTube.  See our YouTube channel.  The first interview is with Susan Smith. To learn more about Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), please visit  ohioyearlymeeting.org. Those interested in exploring the distinctives of Conservative Friends waiting worship should consider checking out our many Zoom Online Worship opportunities during the week here. All are welcome! We also have several Zoom study groups.  Check out the Online Study and Discussion Groups on our website.   Advices read in these podcasts can be found on page 29 in our Book Of Discipline.We welcome feedback on this and any of our other podcast episodes.   Contact us through our website.