Bible Studies

We hope you find our 'Word in Time' Bible studies support you in recognising God in Scripture, and the world around you.

Each week’s studies are written by volunteers across the Connexion (you can read the author’s biography after each study). They follow the lectionary of the Methodist Prayer Handbook. You may additionally be interested in our Prayer of the Day, also from the Methodist Prayer Handbook.

If you would like to write for A Word in Time, please email wit@methodistchurch.org.uk

This week's theme: Slavery and Freedom

"I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandal" (v. 27)
John 1:19-28
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"John answered them, 'I baptise with water. Among you stands one whom you do not know, the one who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandal'." (vv. 26-27)
John 1:19-28
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“He said, ’I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” (v. 23)
John 1:19-34
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“You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” (v. 8)
John 12:1-11
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‘You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.’ (v. 8)
John 12:1-11
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John 12:1-11
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Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. (Psalm 36: 5)
John 12:1-11
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]. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.” (vv. 2-3)
John 12:1-11
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“Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. Then they gave a dinner for him.” (vv. 1-2a)
John 12:1-11
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"So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well, since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were deserting and were believing in Jesus." (vv. 10-11)
John 12:1-11
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"Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair... But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, 'Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?' (He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief...)" (v.3-5)
John 12:1-11
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"Jesus said, 'Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.'" (v.7-8)
John 12:1-11
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