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Jesus Is the Christ: Studies in the Theology of John is unavailable, but you can change that!

More than simply a series of chapters on the theology of John’s Gospel, Jesus Is the Christ relates each of John’s teachings to his declared aim, expressed in John 20:30–31: “Jesus did many other signs before his disciples, which have not been written in this book; but these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in...

that “we are led finally to assume an intrinsic connection between the incarnation and the revelation of Jesus Christ in ‘signs’ which it introduces and renders possible.”14 The signs point us to what God is doing certainly, but it is what he is doing in Jesus, not what he is doing in the human race at large, that is their object. And what God is doing in Jesus is accomplishing the decisive act for the salvation of sinners. He is making a revelation—it is because of what he did in Jesus that we know
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