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Right at the end of his Gospel, John tells us why he wrote it: that we may “believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing [we] may have life in his name.” John therefore filled his Gospel with carefully selected evidence to encourage our belief in Jesus. In this detailed yet easy-to-read commentary, Andrew Paterson examines the eyewitness evidence John provided...

but really it all boils down to this—John calls Jesus the ‘Word’ because it’s a special way of saying that Jesus is the one who makes God known. Do you want to know what God is like? asks John. Then take a good look at Jesus. There are some things about God that can’t be immediately understood when we look at the flesh-and-blood Jesus—for example, that God is the eternal Creator, the source of all physical and spiritual life. That is why John puts together his opening sentences as he does, emphasizing
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