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The Gospel of John, full of striking language and symbolism, is familiar to many as a sourcebook of favorite quotations. It is far more difficult to read this complex and subtle Gospel as a coherent whole on its own terms. In this volume, Jo-Ann A. Bryant, an expert on John’s dramatic rhetoric, helps students and pastors do just that.

God completed [synetelesen] his work on the seventh day”; Gen. 2:2 LXX) and Jesus’s unity with God. And resting the head he handed the spirit over [paredōken to pneuma] (19:30). In the end, it is neither Judas nor the chief priests nor Pilate but Jesus who hands himself over to death. 6. Making sure that he is truly dead. The crucifixion account ends with a denouement (19:31–37) that stands in surprising contrast with what follows Jesus’s death in the Synoptic Gospels, where their reader’s attention
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