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Hailed as perhaps “the best commentary on any book of the Bible by an evangelical in recent decades” by Christianity Today when it was first published in 1971, Leon Morris’s Gospel According to John has become one of the enduring standard commentaries on John’s Gospel. Recognizing the central importance of the Fourth Gospel in any series on the New Testament, Morris devoted more than ten years...

replaced by joy, but of turning into it. The very same thing, the cross, would be to them first a cause of sorrow but later a source of joy. This corresponds to the illustration that follows. In childbirth it is the same thing what is first a source of pain, then of joy. Jesus is not speaking of anguish that would be replaced by a quite different joy.49 Calvin sees a further thought: “Christ means that the sorrow which they will endure for the sake of the Gospel will be fruitful.” 21 Elsewhere in
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