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The Gospel according to John (I–XII): Introduction, Translation and Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the first volume of Raymond E. Brown’s magisterial commentary on the Gospel According to John, all of the major Johannine questions—of authorship, composition, dating, the relationship of John to the Synoptics (Mark, Matthew, and Luke)—are discussed. The important theories of modern biblical scholarship concerning John are weighed against the evidence given in the text and against prevailing...

contrast between the two types of baptism. Moreover, the real contrast in John is not between baptism with water and the person of Jesus, but between John the Baptist and the Unknown One to come. In TS 23 (1962), 197–99, we have discussed the proposed references to Christian Baptism in this passage and found that they were not very convincing. Of course, the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist had an important influence on the theory and practice of Christian Baptism—Thomas Aquinas regarded it as
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