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In her commentary on John’s letters, Karen H. Jobes writes to bridge the distance between academic biblical studies and pastors, students, and laypeople who are looking for an in-depth treatment of the issues raised by these New Testament books. She approaches the three letters of John as part of the corpus that includes John’s Gospel, while rejecting an elaborate redactional history of that...

is picked up again here in these opening verses of 1 John. Standing in this direct chain of witnesses, the author of 1 John faithfully executes his role as a witness, even by writing this letter: “And we have beheld and testify that the Father sent his Son [to be] the Savior of the world” (1 John 4:14). John testifies to the Life that “appeared,” that he has seen the Life, and that his writing is his testimony “about the Word of Life” (περὶ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς, v. 1f). The testimony about the
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