Coming and going in John

Two big questions in John's Gospel: Where did Jesus come from? Will you come to him?

He come from the Father and you will come if he calls you and the Father gives you to him.

As John the Baptist waited eagerly for the first advent, we are to wait eagerly for the second, crying "Come, Lord Jesus! All the while we testify to others that he has already come and inviting people to come to him

• Christ "came to that which was his own" (1:11)
• He "came from the Father" (1:14, 13:3, 16:28)
• Jesus invited John two disciple of John to "come...and...see" where he was staying (1:39) and invited Philip to follow him (1:43)
• Philip found Nathanael and invited him to "Come and see" whether Jesus was the one promised (1:46)
• Jesus explained that as light he had "come into the world", but that some people would not "come into the light" (3:19-20, 12:46)
• John the Baptist had been waiting eagerly for the Christ to come from heaven (3:27ff)
• The Samaritan woman knew that the Christ was "coming", but Jesus explained that he was already here. She went back to her town and invited the people there to "Come, see a man" (4:25-29)
• Great crowds come to Jesus (6:5) and he feeds them miraculously so that they become convinced that he is "the Prophet who [was] to come" (6:14)
• Jesus explains that he is the bread that "comes from heaven" and that "He who comes to me will never go hungry" or thirsty (6:33, 35; 7:37). He then explains that it is those that his Father gives to him who will come to him, and that he will never turn away any who come (6:37, 44, 65)
• Jesus starts explaining he is going where the disciples cannot come (7:34)
• Some people wonder how the Christ can "come from Galilee" (7:41-52), just as Philip had wondered if anything "good can come from" Nazareth (1:46)
• The Pharisees say they don't know where Jesus came from, although the blind man who had been given sight thinks it is obvious he is from God (9:29ff).
• Jesus warns that night is coming (9:5) as he later warns that the "ruler of this world is coming" (14:30)
• Jesus is invited to come to Lazarus's tomb, he comes and then calls to Lazarus to "come out!" Lazarus obeys, just as the all those will obey when he calls everyone from their tombs on the last day (5:28f).
• Jesus promises that when he is lifted up he will draw all people to himself (12:32)
• Again, he explains he will be going away, but that he will come back (14:28). In the meantime he will send the Holy Spirit (15:26).
• He finally sends the church to go into the world like he did (20:21).