Creator of new life (John 1:4; 3:16), the one who brings redemption and salvation. While the Synoptic Gospels also portray Jesus as Savior, John largely does so through a unique combination of contrasting statements, or what is often called Johannine “dualism.”83 While the contrasts in the Synoptics tend to be horizontal, a contrast between two ages (this age and the age to come), John’s contrasts tend to be vertical, a contrast between the world above and the world below. Of course, this is not