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Gospel According To John

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Considered to be the last canonical Gospel of the New Testament, the Gospel According to John has very little parallelism to the Synoptic Gospels. It fosters a unique theme of Christ’s divinity as the eternal Word, who became physical flesh. While John along with the Synoptic Gospels depicts Jesus as the Messiah, he takes it a step further by focusing on Jesus’ deity. According to R.Wayne Stacy, “the Gospels were all clear that the Incarnate meant Jesus was the God. However, John emphasized the former almost to the exclusion of the latter.” -John does not portray Jesus as appealing to any specific group of people, but centered on Christ’s theological significance. Therefore, the purpose of John’s Gospel was written so that all may come to believe
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