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The Gospel of John has been the subject of intense scrutiny for centuries. It has profoundly shaped Christian doctrine and inspired artists, musicians, theologians and ordinary Christians. Despite the Gospel's ability to communicate the good news to the simple believer while concurrently plumbing the depths of Christian faith for the sophisticated, it has been sharply criticized as...

vine and the ship to flow with fragrant sweet wine (h.Hom., VII.34–40), a scene depicted in Greek art. According to Pausanias (VI.26.1f.), on the eve of Dionysos’ feast empty jars placed in his temple at Elis were miraculously filled overnight with wine. At his festival on Andros and Teos, the temple springs miraculously flowed with wine instead of water (Pliny, NH, II.231, XXXI.16; Diod. Sic., III.66.2). Hellenized readers, familiar with such stories, might suppose John’s message to be that Jesus
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