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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,...

new covenant community for two related purposes (hina): so that the disciples might give him reason to rejoice and that their joy might be complete (plērōthēi). The OT prophets expected joy to characterize salvation in the end times (Isa 25:9; 35:10; 51:3; 61:10; 66:10; Zeph 3:14–17; Zech 9:9). But the inauguration of the new covenant with the coming of the Spirit and Jesus’ resurrection before the end would make joy a present possibility (Kysar 1986, 239; Moloney 1998, 426). That Jesus brought “ ‘perfect
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