David Gooding’s exposition reveals the significance of the lessons Jesus taught inside the upper room (John chapter 13–14), their connection to the lessons taught outside in the streets (chapters 15–16), and how both parts of this course on holiness relate to the Teacher’s prayer to his Father (chapter 17). With a scholar’s care for the text of Scripture, he expounds both the devotional richness and the practical nature of the lessons. He shows that to understand Christ’s teaching on holiness is to know his power to change lives.
“they will be expected to witness boldly for Christ, living lives that glorify God” (Page 6)
“We have already heard Christ describing Judas’s sin (without naming him) in the words: ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ Now our Lord adds the even darker phrase: ‘One of you will betray me’ (John 13:21). We know from the other Gospels that Judas betrayed the Lord for money, sold him for thirty pieces of silver (see Matt 26:15).” (Page 50)
“They found they could no longer be content with what they now felt was their former sinful behaviour. They were filled with a longing not only to be with Jesus, but to live like him as well. To be, in fact, what the Bible calls ‘holy’.” (Page 3)
“For Christ, going home to the Father was itself part of the tournament, an indispensable part of the process and provision for making his disciples holy.” (Page 15)
“could taste and see that the Lord is gracious, and be refreshed and gladdened as a thirsty man who comes upon a vine” (Page 126)