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The vision for this series is to provide for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of texts of the Bible in the context of the Bible’s Story, and to provide discussion and instantiations of how the Bible’s Story is lived today. The purpose of the Story of God Bible Commentary Series is to explain and illuminate Scripture as God’s Story, with...

testimony of 1 John 1:1–3. John 21:24 also relates to a resurrection account, framed explicitly by vv. 1 and 14. The explicit references to eyewitness testimony in John’s Gospel refer directly to Christ’s death and, more commonly, resurrection. Thus these events may constitute part of the scope of 1 John 1:1–3. In current scholarship, it is popular to view 1 John 1:1–3 as affirming purely the incarnation of Jesus, usually because of the presupposed anti-gnostic agenda of the letter. Jensen, however,
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