Bible Chapter by Chapter

Chris Hintsala
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Bible Chapter by Chapter is a calm, podcast-style journey through Scripture using the public-domain World English Bible (WEB). Each episode reads one full chapter, then adds clear context, simple commentary, and a short prayer to help you listen, reflect, and grow. Great for daily devotions, small groups, and new believers who want God’s Word explained without noise. Walk through the Gospels, Psalms, Proverbs, and more, one chapter at a time. Listen. Reflect. Grow.

  1. 13h ago

    The Book of Signs Explained — Gospel of John Overview (Chapters 1–12)

    The Gospel of John divides into two halves. Chapters 1–12 are the Book of Signs — the public ministry of Jesus, structured around seven miraculous signs that reveal who he is to the world. Chapters 13–21 are the Book of Glory, addressed only to the disciples. This is a full overview of the Book of Signs: its Old Testament roots, its seven signs, its seven "I Am" declarations, and the question it builds toward across twelve chapters — who do you say that I am? In this video we cover: - The prologue — John's new Genesis (0:00) - Introduction to the Book of Signs (3:11) - Old Testament architecture: Genesis and the new creation (5:16) - The tabernacle and the temple — where God's glory dwells (6:17) - Jewish festivals: Passover, Tabernacles, Dedication (8:00) - The seven signs — introduction (10:12) - Sign 1: Water into Wine (10:55) - Sign 2: The Royal Official's Son (12:45) - Sign 3: Healing at the Pool of Bethesda (13:47) - Sign 4: Feeding the Five Thousand (15:28) - Sign 5: Walking on Water (17:33) - Sign 6: The Man Born Blind (18:52) - Sign 7: The Raising of Lazarus (20:57) - The seven "I Am" statements (23:18) - The Book of Signs as one continuous argument (26:44) - Nicodemus and the Samaritan Woman — two portraits of encounter (29:44) - Chapter 12: crisis and climax (33:56) - Closing: "Lord, we believe" (37:41) Reading and referencing the World English Bible (public domain). If you've been walking through John chapter by chapter with this channel, this overview ties chapters 1–12 together as a single argument before we move into the Book of Glory. Let me know in the comments which sign or "I Am" statement means the most to you. #GospelOfJohn #BookOfSigns #BibleChapterByChapter #BibleStudy

  2. 1d ago

    John Chapter 12 Verse by Verse — The End of Jesus' Public Ministry

    John chapter 12 is the hinge of the entire Gospel of John. In this verse-by-verse study, we walk through Mary's anointing of Jesus at Bethany, the Triumphal Entry, the arrival of the Greeks who want to see Jesus, and the moment Jesus declares "the hour has come" — followed by his teaching on the grain of wheat that must fall and die to bear fruit.This chapter closes the public ministry of Jesus in John's Gospel. After this, everything is spoken privately to the disciples in the Upper Room (chapters 13–17).In this video we cover:0:00 The Hour Has Come (cold open)1:26 Welcome & Chapter 12 Overview2:41 Reading John Chapter 12 (full chapter)9:54 Recap — The Four Movements of Chapter 1210:24 Section 1: The Anointing at Bethany (vv. 1–8)12:08 Section 2: The Triumphal Entry (vv. 12–19)14:08 Section 3: The Grain of Wheat (vv. 20–33)17:00 Section 4: Failure to Confess (vv. 37–43)19:09 Closing Thoughts & Chapter 13 PreviewReading from the World English Bible (public domain).Is there something you've been holding back from Jesus — something costly you sense it's time to give? Leave your honest answer in the comments; I read every one.Come back for Chapter 13, where the Farewell Discourse begins.#BibleStudy #GospelOfJohn #John12 #BibleChapterByChapter

  3. 2d ago

    John 11: I Am The Resurrection And The Life — The Delay, The Grief, The Tomb, And Lazarus Come Out

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through John Chapter 11 — the hinge of the entire Gospel of John, the chapter where everything before it converges and everything after it accelerates toward the cross.   A certain man was sick — Lazarus — he for whom you have great affection. The sisters inform Jesus but do not beg. And then the two sentences placed deliberately side by side: now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus — when therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. The love is stated. The staying is stated. The one who loves stays away — because the delay is purposeful, and the purpose is faith.   When Jesus arrives Martha meets him outside the village. Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you. Your brother will rise again. I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day. And then the fourth I Am with a predicate in the Gospel: I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this? Martha's answer: yes Lord — I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world.   Mary comes and falls at his feet. The same words as Martha. And something changes in Jesus. He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. Where have you laid him? Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. Two words. Quiet tears. Personal. The tears of someone standing at the grave of a friend he loved.   They came to the tomb. Take away the stone. Lord, by this time there is a stench — he has been dead four days. Father, I thank you that you listened to me. When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come out. He who was dead came out. Free him, and let him go.   And then Caiaphas — without knowing it — prophesying: it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people. One man dying for the people — to gather the scattered children of God into one. From that day forward they took counsel to put him to death.   Have you ever been in a place of grief where you wondered if Jesus had arrived too late? I read every one.   📺 https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD 🌐 www.biblechapterbychapter.com   #BibleStudy #GospelOfJohn #IAm #LazarusComeOut #JesusWept #IAmTheResurrectionAndTheLife #BibleChapterByChapter

  4. 3d ago

    What If Nobody Sees the Work You're Doing? | Known by God

    What if you're being faithful to something, working hard, showing up day after day, and almost nobody knows you're doing it? No applause. No recognition. Sometimes, not even much evidence that anything is happening. This entry reflection from Bible Chapter by Chapter is about the painful seasons when faithfulness feels invisible. Moses spent forty years in Midian before the burning bush. David returned to the sheep after being anointed king. Joseph spent years in prison, including two more years after the cupbearer forgot him. Elijah sat alone under a tree believing he was the only one left. Their stories remind us that being unseen is not the same as being forgotten. Scripture says: "For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name."Hebrews 6:10, WEB Whatever you're building, serving, learning, creating, or simply trying to remain faithful to, you may not be able to see what it will become. But God sees the work. Sometimes faithfulness happens long before anyone else can see its significance. Keep planting. Keep showing up. Keep doing the work in front of you. Because faithfulness does not require an audience. Bible Chapter by Chapter is a chapter-by-chapter journey through the Bible, reading the full text and then walking carefully and faithfully through God's Word. #BibleStudy #ChristianFaith #Bible

  5. 4d ago

    John 10: I Am The Good Shepherd — The Door, The Laying Down Of Life, My Sheep Hear My Voice, And I And The Father Are On

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through John Chapter 10 — the most pastoral chapter in the Gospel, where Jesus describes from the inside what the relationship between himself and his people actually looks like.   The chapter opens with the shepherd parable. One who enters by the door is the shepherd. The gatekeeper opens for him. The sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. The sheep follow because they know his voice. They will by no means follow a stranger because they don't know his voice. Jesus explains: I am the sheep's door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.   Then: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand who doesn't own the sheep flees when the wolf comes. The shepherd who owns the sheep stays — because they are his — because he knows them. I know my own and I'm known by my own, even as the Father knows me and I know the Father. I have other sheep which are not of this fold — I must bring them also — one flock — one shepherd. And the clarification: no one takes my life away from me — I lay it down by myself — I have power to lay it down and power to take it again.   Then at the Feast of Dedication: if you are the Christ, tell us plainly. I told you and you don't believe. My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. I give eternal life to them. They will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one. They pick up stones. Jesus slips away. And beyond the Jordan — many believed.   Have you ever been in a season where you couldn't hear the shepherd's voice clearly? I read every one.   📺 https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD 🌐 www.biblechapterbychapter.com   #BibleStudy #GospelOfJohn #IAm #GoodShepherd #MySheepHearMyVoice #NoOneSnatches #IAndTheFatherAreOne #BibleChapterByChapter

  6. 6d ago

    John 9: Though I Was Blind Now I See — The Healing, The Interrogations, The Expulsion, And Jesus Finding Him Again

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through John Chapter 9 — one of the most carefully structured narratives in the entire Gospel of John.   The chapter opens with the disciples' question: who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus rejects the framework entirely. Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but that the works of God might be revealed in him. The suffering is not explained by past failure. It is oriented toward future revelation. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. He makes mud, anoints the man's eyes, and sends him to the pool of Siloam — which means Sent. He went, washed, and came back seeing.   What follows is the most carefully structured interrogation sequence in the Gospel. The neighbors: how were your eyes opened? A man called Jesus. The Pharisees: there is division — how can a sinner do such signs? The man's answer: he is a prophet. The parents: we know he was born blind, but how he sees we don't know — ask him. They defer out of fear of expulsion from the synagogue.   The Pharisees call him a second time. Give glory to God. We know this man is a sinner. And the man says the most honest thing in the chapter: I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know — that though I was blind, now I see. He will not speak to what he does not know. He will not deny what he does know. They press him. He presses back. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. They throw him out.   Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said: do you believe in the Son of God? Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him? You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you. Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.   Is there something Jesus has done in your life that you cannot fully explain theologically — but that you know happened? I read every one.   📺 https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy 🎧 https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD 🌐 www.biblechapterbychapter.com   #BibleStudy #GospelOfJohn #IAm #ManBornBlind #ThoughIWasBlindNowISee #OneThing #BibleChapterByChapter

  7. Sep 20

    Why Did Jesus Weep? — John 11, the Tears Before the Tomb, and What the Foreknowledge Makes More Significant

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we look carefully at the shortest verse in the Bible — Jesus wept — and why the foreknowledge makes it more significant, not less. John 11. Lazarus is dead four days. Martha comes out to meet Jesus: Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. Jesus gives her the most important declaration in the chapter — I am the resurrection and the life — and then Mary comes with the same words, the same grief, the same loss. And something changes in Jesus. He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. The Greek word embrimaomai carries something deeper than sorrow — a visceral stirring, a holy indignation at what death does to the people he loves. And then: where have you laid him? Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. Not the loud public wailing of the crowd — a quieter word, edakrysen, the personal tears of someone standing at the grave of a friend. He already knew what was about to happen. He had said this sickness was for the glory of God. He knew Lazarus was going to walk out of that tomb. And he wept anyway. The foreknowledge did not cancel the grief. The power did not remove the sorrow. The Word became flesh — and flesh weeps at tombs. Both are true of the same person at the same moment. That is what John is showing us. The God who made the world did not observe human suffering from a distance. He entered it. He stood in it. He wept in it. And then he spoke — and death obeyed. Scripture reading from the World English Bible (WEB). Calm, verse-by-verse devotional format. New episodes every chapter. 📺 https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy🎧 https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD🌐 www.biblechapterbychapter.com #BibleStudy #GospelOfJohn #JesusWept #John11 #Lazarus #ResurrectionAndTheLife #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #NewTestament

  8. Sep 19

    What Does "The Word" Mean in John 1? — Logos, the Greek World, and What John Is Actually Claiming

    In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we look carefully at one of the most important words in the entire New Testament — the Word, in Greek the Logos — and what John is actually claiming when he opens his Gospel with it. John 1:1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Most readers have heard that sentence hundreds of times. Fewer have stopped to ask what the word Word actually means — and why John chose it. We look at two backgrounds John is drawing on simultaneously. The Greek philosophical tradition, going back to Heraclitus and developed by the Stoics and by Philo of Alexandria, where the Logos was the rational principle that ordered the universe — the divine reason woven through all of creation. And the Hebrew tradition, where the word of God in Genesis 1 is not description but creation — God said, and it was. The word of the LORD made the heavens. The wisdom of Proverbs 8 was beside him before the beginning of the earth. John steps into the center of both of those conversations in his first sentence. In the beginning was the Logos. And then fourteen verses later — the sentence that neither the Greek philosophers nor the Hebrew Scriptures had prepared anyone for. The Word became flesh, and lived among us. Not a principle. Not a concept. A person. Who was there before the world began. Who made everything that exists. And who entered his own creation. We saw his glory. That testimony is what the rest of the Gospel of John unfolds. Scripture reading from the World English Bible (WEB). Calm, verse-by-verse devotional format. New episodes every chapter. 📺 https://www.youtube.com/@BibleChapterByChapterStudy🎧 https://open.spotify.com/show/6MnjQf5YAsxCAhha7jCSGD🌐 www.biblechapterbychapter.com #BibleStudy #GospelOfJohn #Logos #TheWord #John1 #InTheBeginningWasTheWord #WordBecameFlesh #BibleChapterByChapter #Scripture #Faith #Devotional #NewTestament

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Bible Chapter by Chapter is a calm, podcast-style journey through Scripture using the public-domain World English Bible (WEB). Each episode reads one full chapter, then adds clear context, simple commentary, and a short prayer to help you listen, reflect, and grow. Great for daily devotions, small groups, and new believers who want God’s Word explained without noise. Walk through the Gospels, Psalms, Proverbs, and more, one chapter at a time. Listen. Reflect. Grow.

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  • Creator
    Chris Hintsala
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    292
  • Rating
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    © Chris Hintsala
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