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Of the New Testament accounts of the life of Jesus Christ, none remains as enthralling and enigmatic, provocative and profound as the Gospel according to Saint John. Introducing the book’s historical, literary, and theological backgrounds, Andrew Lincoln provides a pericope by pericope exposition of this ancient biography. While maintaining focus on the message of the text, he includes relevant...

from 1:30 and re-employed here. The saying that is involved plays on the notion of being ‘before’—He who comes after me has become ahead of me, because he was before me—that is, ‘he who comes after me is before me in rank, because he was before me in time’. It is a witness to the Baptist’s subordinate status through being at the same time a witness to Jesus’ pre-existence. Later the narrative will make a similar point about Abraham’s relation to Jesus on the basis of the latter’s pre-existence—‘Before
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