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Encountering John: The Gospel in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this updated edition of his successful textbook, leading evangelical New Testament scholar Andreas Köstenberger offers a guide to John’s Gospel that is informed by current scholarship but written at an accessible level. The book has been revised throughout and features a new interior design.

with open eyes, acting to bring about these events (cf., e.g., v. 27: “What you are about to do, do quickly”). Jesus did what he was about to do fully aware that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was returning to God. John here emphasizes that, at the outset of the footwashing, Jesus was fully assured of his status. He knew he was the Son of God, yet he lowered himself to the status of slave—what amazing condescension! No one said it better than Paul:
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