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John through Old Testament Eyes: A Background and Application Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

A New Testament commentary steeped in the Old Testament. Through Old Testament Eyes is a new kind of commentary series that illuminates the Old Testament backgrounds, allusions, patterns, and references saturating the New Testament. These links were second nature to the New Testament authors and their audiences, but today’s readers often cannot see them. Bible teachers, preachers, and students...

At about the same time John was writing his gospel, the first-century Jewish philosopher Philo interpreted Melchizedek, the king who offered Abraham wine and bread (Ge 14:18), as a type of the coming Messiah who would give God’s people wine instead of water (Allegorical Interpretation 3.82). Jesus enacted that replacement of beverage at Cana as a sign that points forward to the significance of Jesus’ subsequent death. When Jesus died on the cross he replaced the ceremonial waters of ritual Judaism
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