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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. ...

“revealed his glory” (2:11); in fact, M. S. Collins (1995:106) thinks the thrust of the story as a whole is to present the true “glory” of Jesus. According to the Old Testament, at the coming of the final Kingdom there will be an abundance of wine (Isa 25:6; Jer 31:12; Hos 14:7), and this banquet is often depicted as a messianic wedding feast (Hos 2:16–23; cf. Rev 19:9–11). The message of the wine, then, is that the messianic age has started, and it is a proleptic anticipation of the final messianic
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