John (Biblia.com)

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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 chief phrase used to express this relationship in John is to ‘believe in (literally, into) Jesus’. This means to entrust oneself to Jesus, fully accepting what he proclaims himself to be. The phrase is unusual, but it does occur eight times elsewhere in the New Testament besides the 36 cases in the Gospel of John and 3 cases in 1 John. It is not found in the Septuagint or in secular Greek. Evidently it is not confined to the evangelist, but should rather be seen as characteristic diction of the

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