The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...

John's gospel is different from the other three in the New Testament. That fact has been recognized since the early church itself. Already by the year 200, John's gospel was called the spiritual ...

If the Christian opponents are not "children of Satan," they are children of this world, "anti-Christs" (1 Jn 4:3, 5; 2 Jn 7). This is not significantly better. A generation ago, scholarship tended to ...

2 The reasons for this evaluation of the gospel are well-known and often repeated. First of all, John proclaims a replacement theology. 3 What John's Jewish contemporaries held dear the evangelist ...

Some Jewish works written several hundred years before John's gospel portrayed Wisdom as God's heavenly consort. This Wisdom, pictured as a beautiful woman, lived with God and participated in ...

This messenger is John the Baptist, who appeared in the desert of Judaea. John’s role was to prepare the people for the coming of the Messiah. He did this through telling people to repent as the ...

An exquisite fine art edition of St John’s Gospel, illuminated by artist-calligrapher Jane Sullivan. Inspired by Celtic art and the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, this is a prayerful and ...

Elizabeth Schrader Polczer is assistant professor of New Testament at Villanova University. Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John. Hear the full version of ...

Luke's gospel begins with dramatic appearances of the angel Gabriel to Zechariah and to Mary. Gabriel foretells two miraculous births: the birth of John the ... at his baptism (3:22) and he ...

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