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John, His Gospel, and Jesus: In Pursuit of the Johannine Voice is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Stanley Porter tackles a variety of important and often highly contentious topics within the Gospel of John as a means of defining and capturing the distinctive Johannine voice. Subjects discussed include John in relation to competing Gospels, the public proclamation of Jesus in John, the sources of John’s Gospel, John’s prologue, the “I Am” sayings, the notion of truth, the...

the ones seeking to kill Jesus. This understanding is supported by subsequent usage, when the author says that Jesus went to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles; that is, he left Galilee and reentered the Judean territory (vv. 11, 15). John 7:35 (after the chief priests and Pharisees send servants to arrest Jesus [v. 32], the Jews question each other regarding what Jesus is saying): Although it may be the servants who are asking these questions, the context here is probably better seen as indicating
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