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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.

older than the Gospel, or as composed by a different hand. In my view, it was added as part of the second edition to give the rationale of the christology which is everywhere assumed in the Gospel, though not elsewhere stated in philosophical terms. As a composition in the style of the Wisdom poems, it need not be regarded as based on any more specific model. It has already been pointed out that it has its closest parallel in Ecclesiasticus 24. The crucial point in the Prologue is 5:14: ‘And the
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