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John’s Use of Ezekiel: Understanding the Unique Perspective of the Fourth Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Scholars have long puzzled over the distinctive themes and sequence of John’s narrative in contrast to the accounts in the Synoptic Gospels. Brian Neil Peterson offers an explanation for some of the most unusual features of the Fourth Gospel, including the exalted language of the Johannine prologue, the use of imagery and prophecy, the early placement of Jesus’ “cleansing” of the temple and his...

characterized not only as individuals, but also as representations of their communities/people groups. Thus, Nicodemus represents the religious elite and the woman at the well the Samaritans.32 This of course could be expanded to the royal official (4:48) as being representative of foreign/political groups.33 Now, whereas Ezekiel ministered to his own people in exile, the greater connection to be made is that Yahweh came and ministered to his people in a foreign land. Yahweh was not bound by borders
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