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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...

wanted the man to have something to wash off his eyes in the Pool of Siloam. Siloam means ‘sent’ and is the same as ‘Shiloh’, in connection with which we have the Messianic promise in Genesis 49:10: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah … Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the people. Carson notes that “As it [Siloam] was called ‘Sent’, so Jesus was supremely the sent one … Moreover, in Isaiah 8:6 the Jews reject the waters of Shiloah; here they reject Jesus.”5 In other words,
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