Already by the year 200, John's gospel was called the spiritual gospel precisely because it told the story of Jesus in symbolic ways that differ sharply at times from the other three. For example ...

Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his theological grandeur. He gives us fewer stories than the other gospels, but those he does present are ...

Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him ...

Christians believe that when Jesus came to Earth, he was both fully God (a person of the Trinity) and fully human. An apostle called Philip asked Jesus to reveal God the Father. However, Jesus ...

Some Bible scholars think that John may have had connections with this community. Matthew records that when Jesus asked John to baptise him, John was reluctant to do so. This could be for the ...

First of all, John proclaims a replacement theology. 3 What John's Jewish contemporaries held dear the evangelist seems to have abolished and replaced with the Christian Jesus. John 15:1-17 represents ...