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When Raymond E. Brown died in 1998, less than a year after the publication of his masterpiece, An Introduction to the New Testament, he left behind a nearly completed revision of his acclaimed two-volume commentary on the Gospel of John in the Anchor Yale Bible. The manuscript, skillfully edited by Francis J. Moloney, displays the rare combination of meticulous scholarship and clear, engaging...

this evangelist known as “John the divine [ho theologos = the theologian]” and from his work, which Clement of Alexandria dubbed as “the spiritual Gospel.” Sacramental debates both before and after the Reformation drew on statements in chs. 3 and 6: “born/begotten of water and Spirit” (3:5); “My flesh is true food, and my blood, true drink” (6:55); “It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless” (6:63). Because it was thought to stem from the closest of Jesus’ companions, the Fourth Gospel,
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