Typical workload
- Guided instruction
- 8 hours
- Required reading
- 13 hours
- Lesson practice
- 10 hours
- Considered answers
- 6 hours
- Feedback and revision
- 4 hours
← CoursesRead the whole Gospel,
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THE AIM
THE GOSPEL OF JOHNA GUIDED COURSE FOR EVERYONE
Read the whole Gospel,
with a guide at your side.
John tells you why it was written: “these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31). This course walks the book start to finish — its signs, conversations, and cross as one testimony — in plain language, with every required reading free, and no prior study assumed.
PACESelf-paced
COURSE12 guided chapters
GUIDED STUDYAbout 8 guided hours
CURRICULUM LEVELBeginner friendly
READINGS36 required, all free
The actual commitment — and what completion means
This course is built to be finished. Lessons are short, the writing minimums are gentle, and everything required is free. Here is the honest math.
Access and participation
Everything required is free: the Gospel text is in Feason, and the ancient and modern companions are public-domain texts with direct links. Optional “go deeper” books are labeled honestly when they cost money.
Course pages are open to browse. A Feason account is needed before reviewed work so your drafts, reading notes, and accepted answers can be kept for you.
Review and completion
Each chapter ends with a 300-word considered answer that Feason’s AI reviewer reads against plain, visible criteria — clear thinking and honest use of the text, never academic voice. Work that needs revision gets kind, specific feedback and another try.
The completion receipt records finished work only. It is not academic credit, and the reviewer is not a pastor or a professor — it is a study aid.
Fair to every tradition
Where Christians read John differently — new birth and baptism, the bread of life, “I am the way,” the prayer for unity — this course lays the major readings side by side, labeled, each in its own best words. No tradition is the house default.
What you will be able to do
Every lesson, reading note, and written answer builds toward these six abilities.
- 01
Follow John’s shape — prologue, signs, the “hour,” resurrection, epilogue — and say how each part serves the purpose in John 20:31
- 02
Read a Johannine passage closely: notice structure, double meanings, irony, and Old Testament echoes, and cite the text precisely
- 03
Explain the Gospel’s famous disputes fairly, in each side’s own words, without caricature
- 04
Use real interpreters, ancient and modern, with fair quotation and honest uncertainty
- 05
Say who Jesus is in John — Word made flesh, I AM, glory on the cross — as your own argued conviction, not a summary
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Connect John to worship, discipleship, and witness across Christian traditions without treating any one tradition as the default
EXPLORE THE COURSEChoose your next
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Start with the next chapter below, or open a course section to see what it contains.
ISECTION 1 OF 4The Word Made Flesh
The opening of the Gospel: the Word who was with God becomes flesh, calls his first followers, and offers new birth and living water.
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The Word Made Flesh
The opening of the Gospel: the Word who was with God becomes flesh, calls his first followers, and offers new birth and living water.
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In the Beginning Was the Word
What does it mean that the Word became flesh?
3 required readings
1.20% COMPLETE
Come and See
How does anyone come to believe — proof, argument, or invitation?
3 required readings
1.30% COMPLETE
New Birth and Living Water
What is Jesus offering that religion-as-usual doesn’t have?
3 required readings
IISECTION 2 OF 4Signs and Disputes
Healings and feedings become trials: who Jesus says he is, why it caused so much trouble, and why some see while others refuse to.
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Signs and Disputes
Healings and feedings become trials: who Jesus says he is, why it caused so much trouble, and why some see while others refuse to.
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The Healer on Trial
Who does Jesus say he is — and why did it cause so much trouble?
3 required readings
2.20% COMPLETE
The Bread of Life
What does it mean to feed on Jesus — and why did some of his followers walk away?
3 required readings
2.30% COMPLETE
Light and Blindness
Why do some people see and others refuse to?
3 required readings
IIISECTION 3 OF 4The Hour Comes
Lazarus, the footwashing, the vine, the Helper, and the long prayer: Jesus prepares his friends for the hour he came for.
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The Hour Comes
Lazarus, the footwashing, the vine, the Helper, and the long prayer: Jesus prepares his friends for the hour he came for.
IVSECTION 4 OF 4Glory, Witness, and Belief
The cross John calls glory, the empty tomb, honest doubt, and breakfast on the shore — the testimony this book asks you to weigh.
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Glory, Witness, and Belief
The cross John calls glory, the empty tomb, honest doubt, and breakfast on the shore — the testimony this book asks you to weigh.
YOUR PLACE IN THE COURSE
Enroll to make this course yours
Enrolling is free and private: it simply marks the course as yours. Only you can see it — unless you choose to share your enrollment with the flock.
Enrollment is not required to study — every chapter stays open. It keeps your progress and completion record in one place.
“Not a course about a book, but a guided first reading of it — slow enough to see what John is doing, honest enough to say what you think when you’re done.”Begin with chapter 1.1