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The Gospel Of John

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Biblical writing is very diverse in its structure, formatting and presentation. Such things are to be expected from a text written over the course of a few thousand years. The history gathered in the Old testament is very much reflected in the Gospels by fulfillment citation, and prophesies about Jesus. In the Gospel according to John, however, the is new material not seen before in the New Testament. The Gospel of John has an extraordinarily high Christology, the likes of which were unheard of in the first century. This approach to the narrative of Jesus creates a radical mindset, for the canon at least. It is not very popular with the main religions at the time. John focuses heavily on the miracles Jesus performed using his own power. It
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