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A Study Commentary on John: Volume 1: John 1–12 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gospel of John has been called “the most amazing book that was ever written.” Like no other book of the Bible, it contains the entire message of God’s Word in microcosm. It takes us from eternity to eternity and shows the centrality of Jesus Christ to our lives, to human history and to the meaning of the cosmos itself. For that reason, it must be at the very core of the preaching and...

would not allow. He pointed out, ‘I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive’ (5:43) They would accept a false messiah on his own testimony, but had rejected Jesus, who had come in the name of his Father God! Here he touches on the problem with his critics and the kind of religion they represented, and pinpoints the reason why they would not accept him. They were praise-seekers, and utterly self-centred. ‘How can you believe,’
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