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John: Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, Volume 2A is unavailable, but you can change that!

Brimming with lavish, full-color photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. It’s like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century reader! Discoveries await you that will snap the world of the New Testament into gripping immediacy. Things that seem...

the temple, even if they had already begun walking in John 14:31.)A-459 The vine image could thus imply a sense of community inherited from the early Jewish setting. Given Jesus’ language about mutual indwelling in this context, however, the sense here appears even more organic, a dependence on Christ for one’s heart and life. Gardener (15:1). The title is not specific to vinedressers; it could include anything from the owner of a large vineyard to—a somewhat likelier image here—a small holder who
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