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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.

4 UNDERSTANDING JOHN Asking the Right Questions THE GOSPEL OF JOHN is not just a biography, but a theological interpretation of Jesus to promote faith. It has survived the situation of conflict in which it was written, and the subsequent demise of the Johannine community, to become one of the most highly valued books of the Bible. It may be claimed that the Fourth Gospel can be read with profit without the paraphernalia of scholarship, and of course this is true up to a point. But our study of
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