John steeps his gospel in abundant symbolism, both theological and sacramental. Images like bread, light, sheep, water and world suffuse the text providing rich food for meditation. John presents ...

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 ...

in James H. Charlesworth, ed. Jews and Christians: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future (New York: Crossroad: 1990): 76-96. The Gospel of John seems on the face of it a poor basis for ...

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 ...

15. The text was corrected to "I am Lord" in the margin of Codex Marchalianus. 16. See A.E. Millgram, Jewish Worship (Philadelphia: Jewish Publ. Soc., 1971), pp. 96-101. 17. John's second most common ...

The letters of John form a remarkable collection of writing, usually place towards the end of the New Testament. The imagery ...

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 Baptist to Zechariah's post-menopausal ...

Look at the Gospel of Mary. That’s a second-century text that asks questions about women’s authority. So that one is a perennial question. John’s Gospel says that the spirit of truth cannot be ...

A parallel would be if a preacher employed the text of Matthew 27:25 ... “The Jews,” and the Gospel of John thusly: The audience of the finalized work [~100 CE] … would hear [“the Jews ...

Biblical truth is itself divisive because it presents an exclusive path to salvation. Christians shouldn’t create additional ...