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Lindars deals with the controversial issue of the Jews in John’s Gospel. He tackles the Gospel’s authorship and its agreement with the Synoptic Gospels. Lindars draws the reader into John’s world and the audience to whom John was writing. He also examines Jesus’ encounters with Pharisees, the Law, eternal life, the Gospel’s Prologue, John’s use of the title “Son of Man,” and the “I Am” sayings.

The Gospel of John is deceptively simple in style and vocabulary. But it also has a mysterious quality, suggesting hidden depths. The reader is alerted at the outset that the story of Jesus is the crucial manifestation of a cosmic struggle between light and darkness (1:5). Thus the story operates at two levels, and the facts which are described also have symbolic meaning in relation to the theology of John. The historic circumstances of Jesus in his time are the stage on which the ultimate cosmic
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