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nearest to the throne and the beating heart of God. John alone reports the interviews with Nicodemus, the woman of Samaria, and ...

prominent in other ways and stood next to the beloved three, or even next to his brother Peter in the catalogues of the apostles ...

the Father of the Lord."^1044 Jerome adds the opposite error of Ebionism, Ewald that of the disciples of the Baptist. No doubt t ...

In carrying out their hypothesis the Tübingen critics have resorted to the wildest fictions. It is said that the author deprecia ...

*(8.) Jesus again visits Cana in Galilee and heals a nobleman’s son at Capernaum, John 4:46–54. *(9.) Second journey to Jerusale ...

(6.) The burial of Jesus, 19:38–42. (7.) The resurrection. Mary Magdalene, Peter and John visit the empty tomb, 20:1–10. (8.) Ch ...

Let us point out the chief characteristics of this book which distinguish it from the Synoptical Gospels. The fourth Gospel is ...

25:31–46), and in the baptismal formula He associates himself and the Holy Spirit with the eternal Father, as the connecting lin ...

The whole Old Testament is a type and prophecy of the New. "The law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" (1 ...

teaching (Matt. 7:28, 29; Mark 1:22; 6:2; Luke 4:32; John 7:46). He addressed not only his own generation, but through it all ag ...

(4) Beneath the surface of the similarity there is a considerable difference between the language of Christ and the language of ...

The Style of the Gospel of John. The style of the fourth Gospel differs widely from the ecclesiastical writers of the second cen ...

parallelism are also frequent: "The light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not;" "He was in the world, ...

reconstruction and destruction of the life of Christ and the apostolic history. The ultimate result cannot be doubtful. The oppo ...

a native of Palestine (103–166), and a bold and noble-minded defender of the faith in the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines. I ...

knew the fourth Gospel. There is some reason to suppose that the disputed section on the woman taken in adultery was recorded by ...

Heretical testimonies. They all the more important in view of their dissent from Catholic doctrine. It is remarkable that the h ...

quotations in the Philosophumena, the last book of the pseudo-Clementine Homilies, the Syrian Commentary on Tatian’s Diatessaron ...

(2:13, 23; 5:1 7:37, etc.), circumcision, and the Sabbath (7:22, 23). He is also acquainted with the marriage and burial rites ( ...

to the highest conception of God as an omnipresent spirit, and his true worship in spirit and in truth.^1082 The writer represe ...