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John 13–21: 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,...

of the extended figures of speech (paroimia) in John (→ 10:6, 25, 29) are intertwined throughout (→ 10:7–18; 15:1–17; Beutler 2017, 398). In the OT and early Judaism, the vine or vineyard metaphorically represented Israel. But John “identifies the vine with Jesus and not with a people.… This is part of the Johannine technique of replacing ‘the kingdom of God is like …’ with ‘I am …’ ” (Brown 2008, 670). The metaphor dominates 15:1–8; vv 9–17 explain it. Apart from the vine imagery, however, the following
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