John thus places the life of Jesus in the context of ancient Jewish worship and emphasizes the length of his ministry. The gospel of John is a delightful book, full of theological insight and ...

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 ...

A generation ago, scholarship tended to gloss over the Jews in the Gospel of John. For Bultmann the Jews were a surrogate for the world, their presence apparently accounted for by the historical ...

This messenger is John the Baptist, who appeared in the desert of Judaea. Baptism was a Jewish ritual – people were totally immersed in water to symbolise cleansing. John’s baptism was a ...

particularly the outline of the ministry of Jesus. Now the Gospel of John has some relationships to the sources used by the other gospels.... The passion narrative in John is essentially the same ...

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 ...