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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...

They were ‘not able to listen’ to his word. Their instinctive reaction to Jesus, based on their predisposition, was one of incomprehension. They drew a blank as far as the true meaning of his word was concerned. James Fisher, in his famous catechism explaining the Shorter Catechism, asks ‘Wherewith is the understanding corrupted?’ and answers, ‘With darkness and blindness, so that we cannot know and receive the things of the Spirit
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