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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...

does Jesus do? He replaces the ceremonial water with wine. Symbolically, he replaces the old religion of religious rituals with the new wine of a joyful relationship. When Jesus reigns in a life, the best image to describe it is not the mourning of a funeral but the celebration of a party. Little wonder some of the older Christian songs have lines like ‘Religion never was designed to make our pleasures less’ (Isaac Watts, from ‘Come, We that Love the Lord’) and ‘Solid joys and lasting treasure, none
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