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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...

this Gospel (cf. also 19:25–7) she is not given her personal name of Mary, known from the Synoptics and presumably familiar to Christian readers from the tradition. Attention is concentrated on her familial relationship to Jesus, which enables her to have an important intermediary function in involving her son in dealing with an embarrassing situation of need (cf. vv. 3–5). Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. The mention of the disciples here prepares for the narrator’s
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