Loading…

John 1–12: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

Simple to read but conceptually complex, the Gospel of John is in many ways unlike its three companion Gospels. The authors of this two-volume New Beacon Bible Commentary have presented succinctly the best that contemporary New Testament scholarship has to offer on this Gospel. Exploring genre, literary devices, authorship, and other features, this commentary delves deeply into the development,...

Incarnate truth is less about the accuracy of particular propositions and beliefs than about the person, Jesus Christ. Fundamentally, it is about God’s reality, “that which really is” (Beasley-Murray 2002, 15). In the Gospel according to John, truth is God’s revelation, not the result of human discovery. Jesus corresponds completely with the reality that is God. ■ 15 The prologue here offers a parenthetical comment about John (e.g., NIV, NRSV; vs. NIV1984). The Evangelist often writes in a spiral
Page 61