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The Gospel of John is so simple that it is often the first biblical book given to recent converts to help them understand Christian truth, and yet it is so difficult that only experienced scholars attempt to study it. It is paradoxically the most accessible and yet the most complex of the four Gospels. In his accessible commentary, Grant Osborne explains the core themes of the Gospel of John. ...

unlikely. Even more, it does not fit the actual meaning of the passage or the language used. In the fourth Gospel, both words (agapaō [TG25, ZG26] and phileō [TG5368, ZG5797]) are used for the Father’s love for the Son, for the Father’s love for the disciples, for Jesus’ love for Lazarus and the beloved disciple, and for Christians as “beloved” (Brown 1966:498). The consensus today is that the two terms are synonymous in John (Brown, Carson, Beasley-Murray, Burge, Blomberg, Keener, Köstenberger).
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