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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.

keeping of the Law in home and synagogue, and encouraged patience and submission to the will of God. Christians were disapproved, because they did not keep the Law and thereby ‘led the people astray’. This is the complaint against Jesus in John 7:12, but it exactly corresponds with the traditional rabbinic statement preserved in b. Sanhedrin 43a that Jesus was ‘to be stoned, because he practised magic and enticed and led Israel astray’. The full passage makes it clear that ‘to be stoned’ simply means
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