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This excellent commentary by Herman Ridderbos engages seriously the host of twentieth-century interpretations of John while also developing its own integral understanding of John in which the Gospel emerges as a profoundly theological work. Ridderbos presents John in its distinctively apostolic character and includes important criteria for the literary and homiletical exegesis of the Fourth...

between Jesus and the Jews is the absolute authority and attendant severity of Jesus’ public action. He not only tells the merchants and the money changers whom he found in the temple to leave but with a hastily improvised whip he drives them all54—merchandise and everything—out of the temple. He spills out the money changers’ money and turns their tables over and commands the pigeon merchants to take their merchandise and leave—all this with the message intended for them: “You shall not make my
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