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In The Farewell Discourse and Final Prayer of Jesus, D. A. Carson offers a penetrating exposition of John 14–17—the finale of Jesus’ teaching. These short studies touch on many of the great themes of the Christian faith, held together by the experience of the cross that loomed over Christ and his disciples at Gethsemane.

Many people are aware that John’s Gospel greatly stresses Jesus’ deity. He is identified with the Word incarnate; and from all eternity that Word was God (1:1). In a moment of high drama, Thomas worships the resurrected Jesus in terms rightly applicable to God alone: “My Lord and my God” (20:28); and Jesus accepts this ascription of deity and pronounces a blessing on those who come to similar faith without requiring similar proof (20:29). The attributes of deity are applied to Jesus, and so also
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