John 1:1-5 closes three weeks looking at the infant Jesus through four gospel writers — Matthew's Jewish Messiah, Mark's almost Homeric hero, and now John's Word.
John 12 at Bethany, six days before the Passover: Mary pours a pint of pure nard on Jesus' feet and wipes them with her hair.
John 4:7-17 and the woman at the well, in another run of the occasional series the preacher calls Things Adam Wants to Talk About.
John 5:1-7 at the pool of Bethesda. A man has been an invalid for thirty-eight years, and Jesus asks him whether he wants to be healed.
The second half: the unnamed woman at Sychar has no name because she has all of them, and every bucket lowered into Jacob's well leaves you thirsty again.
John 14:27 on supernatural peace, and why Jesus attaches that particular qualifier — the second half of a two-week visit on living a fruitful life.