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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...

deeper, at least more “loaded,” meanings to certain components of the story: first to the word “follow” in vs. 37 (see above) and then to Jesus’ question, “What do you seek?”49 and the disciples’ counterquestion, “Rabbi, where are you staying,”50 or more inclusively to the combination “follow … seek … stay.”51 These are attempts to give more content to the supposed exemplary character of this first encounter. But the question is whether the Evangelist wants to be understood in that fashion. The most
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