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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...

support heretical views29 that the Fathers tended to adopt the view that the words belong in verse 3. Despite this hesitation it seems that this is the better way to understand the text; the point should go after the words in question so that they are read as part of verse 3. To take the text in this way is to get a terse and forceful statement in verse 4, while the retention of the disputed words in the previous verse is natural and adds to the emphasis that is there built up. The other way of
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