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The Gospel of John tells us the story that is the foundation of the distinctive teaching of Christianity. It provides all the elements necessary to see the full picture of the person and work of Jesus: a human Christ to redeem us, a divine Christ to reveal God’s nature, and a powerful, Spirit-filled Christ to help us lead holy lives. John shows these aspects in a mysterious, literate way that...

(not to the Holy Spirit). But the NIV’s “deeply moved” may not be the best reading of the Greek verb embrimaomai.15 In classical Greek this word describes the snort of a horse (in war or in a race). For humans it describes outrage, fury, or anger. This nuance appears in its Synoptic uses (Matt. 9:30; Mark 1:43; 14:5) and undoubtedly must be applied here.16 Beasley-Murray cites Schnackenburg: The word “indicates an outburst of anger, and any attempt to reinterpret it in terms of an internal emotional
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