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 ...

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 ...

"anti-Christs" (1 Jn 4:3, 5; 2 Jn 7). This is not significantly better. A generation ago, scholarship tended to gloss over the Jews in the Gospel of John. For Bultmann the Jews were a surrogate for ...

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 ...

John 3:17 This quote from the Gospel of John shows the belief that God allowed the process of human atonement to begin by sending Jesus into the world.