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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...

of what will occur is signalled by the mention of Jewish purification rites. The number six may well then represent the imperfection or insufficiency of the old order of Judaism. The objection that Jesus does not add a seventh jar that contains the wine is insubstantial. Six can represent imperfection without seven as perfection having to be explicitly mentioned, and the evangelist’s fondness for seven as representing completion is in any case established by his reporting of seven signs in the ministry
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