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"John’s Gospel is the one, fine, true, and chief Gospel, and is far, far to be preferred over the other three and high above them." So wrote Martin Luther in one of the drafts of his Preface to the New Testament. Luther preferred John’s Gospel because it offered more of the words and fewer of the acts of Christ, and hence, for him at least, it was among the books which "show Christ and teach all...

Matt. 16:19, and it may have been developed along the lines of Isa. 22:22. If (an) may also be rendered “when.” Forgive (aphienai) means literally “to release” or “let go.” Retain translates kratein which means “to hold on to” and is nowhere else used in this sense of “holding sins.” It seems to occur as a result of seeking a parallel to forgive. The tenses of the two verbs are different. This leads some to think that forgiving (an aorist subjunctive) is a single action confined to one point in time,
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