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The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John is unavailable, but you can change that!

How do historical and literary details contribute to a coherent theological witness to Jesus in the Gospel of John? A leading British evangelical New Testament scholar answers that question with studies on themes from messianism to monotheism, symbolic actions from foot-washing to fish-catching, literary contexts from Qumran to the Hellenistic historians, and figures from Nicodemus to ‘the...

in Jerusalem, there can be no doubt that they also will have belonged to this lay aristocratic elite. 2. Nicodemus is a Pharisee (John 3:1). The Pharisees in the Fourth Gospel are not usually the Pharisees in general, but the small number of wealthy aristocratic Pharisees who belonged to the ruling elite. Because they formed the one identifiable party other than the chief priests,111 John can refer to the ruling group as “the chief priests and the Pharisees” (7:32, 45; 11:47, 57; 18:3), ignoring
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