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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...