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Dr. Gangel’s commentary lifts up the historical significance and timeless truths of this pivotal Gospel. John writes to an audience that has had at least fifty years of church history. Christianity has made its impact on the Mediterranean world. This gospel focuses on Jesus’ teaching, with the hope that those who read or hear it would have the same knowledge and faith that John’s personal...

Often I find myself humming the theme of the television miniseries Winds of War which aired in the mid 1980s. Based on the Herman Wouk book, the series ran for a total of eighteen hours. This theme played over and over again—in the key of D minor. John’s key words are like that, especially “life” and “light.” The word rendered “understood” in the NIV is translated “seizes” in Mark 9:18 and “overtakes” in John 12:35. God sent his light into the world, but mankind did not understand it, could not grasp
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