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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.

Here Jesus develops further his statement of verse 17, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” In particular, Jesus defends himself against the following two charges: (1) he is a Sabbath-breaker; (2) he is blaspheming, because he claims a unique, equal relationship with God (v. 18). How does Jesus’s defend himself? Essentially, he elaborates on the nature of his relationship with God the Father. Jesus claims that everything he (the
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