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John is a Gospel of abundant truth, life, and love. David Ford, one of the world’s leading Christian theologians, invites readers into a fresh, profound encounter with Jesus through the Gospel of John in this verse-by-verse theological commentary. This commentary will be of interest to professors and students doing research on John and the reception of the Gospel in Christian theology. It is also...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.… And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory (1:1, 14). Why does John use the Word (ho logos) as his key opening term? Of the many suggestions made over the centuries about this, there are three that together seem to me to be least inadequate. First, and most obvious, John is beginning a writing that is made up of
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