The following study will focus on one aspect of John’s use of the Old Testament. Jesus is commonly portrayed in the Fourth Gospel as the fulfillment and replacement of those Old Testament institutions that preceded him. D. A. Carson summarizes the theological significance of this replacement when he says that Old Testament institutions ‘find their true significance and real continuity in him who is the true vine, the true light, the true temple, the one of whom Moses wrote.’3 As this quote attests,