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A companion series to the acclaimed Word Biblical Commentary. Finding the great themes of the books of the Bible is essential to the study of God’s Word and to the preaching and teaching of its truths. These themes and ideas are often like precious gems: they lie beneath the surface and can only be discovered with some difficulty. While commentaries are useful for helping readers understand the...

It is well known that seven “signs” of Jesus are recounted in the Gospel of John—quite certainly a number deliberately chosen, seven being associated by the Jews with perfection. In the synoptic Gospels the evangelists do not describe the miracles of Jesus as “signs”; they use rather the ordinary Greek term for miracle, namely dynamis (cf. dynamic, dynamite). That term normally means “power,” but it can also have a concrete sense, a “powerful deed.” Conversely
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