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The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples according to the Fourth Gospel: With Implications for the Fourth Gospel’s Purpose and the Mission of the Contemporary Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

This important new work explores in depth the relationship between the mission of Jesus and of the disciples as presented in the Gospel of John, and explores the implications of these findings for the contemporary church. Based on a comprehensive semantic field of study that integrates biblical studies, theology, and missiology, this volume represents the first time such an approach has been used...

the entire Gospel. In the first section of the Gospel (chapters 2–4, marked by the inclusio of 2:11 and 4:54), Jesus’ task is described primarily in terms of his signs (cf. 2:11, 18, 23; 3:2; 4:45, 46, 48, 54). Jesus’ first two signs in Galilee are explicitly linked by the evangelist in 4:46a. The pericope of John 4:34–38 (note the inclusio of κεκοπιακώς in 4:6 with κεκοπιάκατε, κεκοπιάκασιν, and κόπον in v. 38) includes repeated references to Jesus’ work, using a variety of mission terminology
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