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No other book of the New Testament has attracted as much attention from commentators as the Fourth Gospel. It has stirred minds, hearts, and imaginations from Christianity’s earliest days. In The Gospel of John, Francis Moloney unfolds the identifiable “point of view” of this unique Gospel narrative and offers readers, heirs to its rich and widely varied interpretative traditions, relevance for...

Father’s commandments and abiding in his love (v. 10b). Jesus’ life is based on his having kept the commandments of God, having done the will of the Father (perfect tense: teterēka), evident in his ongoing abiding in the love of the Father (present tense: menō). The disciples are to repeat, in their relationship with Jesus, what Jesus has always had with the Father: a loving mutuality shown by the unconditional observance of his commandments. This section of the discourse closes as Jesus announces,
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