COMMENTARY IN PROGRESS (LiteVersion)

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• Who are “the Jews” in the Gospel of John?
• Judean Christian Mission to the Israelite Samaritans
• Rethinking Israelite Samaritans and their Diaspora
• A Niche Market for John’s Gospel
• Authority as the key characteristic of “the Jews” in John

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• John 1.1-3 (Logos Theology in Pre-Christian Jewish Tradition?)
• John 1.4-5 (The Themes of Darkness and Light: Is There a Connection with Qumran?)
• John 1.6-9 (Hebrew Names – Should We Translate It?)
• John 1.10-12 (He Came Unto His “Own”: What Can We See in Greek That We Can Not in English?)
• John 1.13-15 (What Does it Mean to be God’s Son in the Light of Old Testament?)
• John 1.16-18 (Law and Grace: Have We Made Enemies Out of Friends?)
• John 1.19-24 (Jerusalem’s Inquiry into John Baptist)
• John 1.25-27 (John,Who Do You Think You Are?!)
• Jn. 1.29-31 (Passover and Easter: What Do They Have in Common?)
• Jn.1.32-34 (The King, the Dove and the Spirit)
• Jn.1.35-42 (Why Does John Often Translate and Explain Words?)
• Jn.1.43-46 (What Was Wrong with Nazareth?)
• Jn.1.47-51 (Nathaniel, You Have Not Seen Anything Yet)

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• Jn.2.1-12 (Are “the Jews” really “Judeans”?)
• Jn.2.13 (Why Passover of the Jews? Where there also other Passovers?)
• Jn.2.14-17 (Cleansing the Temple: Why is John so Different from Synoptics?)
• Jn.2.18-25 (ReInterpreting “If You Are the Messiah, Tell Us Clearly?!”)

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• Jn.3.1-9 (Who was Nicodemus?)
• Jn.3.12-21 (Reconsidering John 3.16)
• Jn.3.25-36 (Jesus’ Supremacy)

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• John 4.1-42 (Reconsidering the Samaritan Woman)
• John 4.43-54 (Was Galilee Jesus’ real home?)

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• John 5.2-5 (Who will heal You? A Greek or a Jewish god?)
• John 5.6-9 (Understanding Ancient Copyists of Scriptures)
• John 5.10-17 (What was the real reason for the persecution of Jesus by “the Jews”?)
• John 5.18 (Why would “the Jews” want to kill Jesus?)
• John 5.19-30 (Was the Gospel of John “simply” written or carefully designed?)
• John 5.19-30 (How to interpret this chiasm?)
• John 5.31-38 (How does Jesus know He is right?)
• John 5.41-42 (I do not receive glory from People of the Land)
• John 5.43-46 (If another comes in his own name)

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• John 6.1-15 (Jesus as second Moses)
• John 6.16-25 (Jesus and his strange movements around the Sea of Galilee)
• John 6.26-28 (Are we preconditioned to read New Testament in an anti-Jewish Way?)
• John 6.28-33 (Are we reading the Gospel of John through the lenses of our time instead of theirs?)
• John 6:34-36 (Judeans and Samaritans: An Unexpected Comparison and contrast)
• John 6:37-41 (From the 16th century Calvinism to the 1st century St. John’s teachings)
• John 6:42-51 (We know his parents! He did not come from heaven)
• John 6:52-61 (Eating His body and drinking his blood: Mistake, command, metaphor or reality?
• John 6:52-61 (Easting His body and drinking His blood: Reality and Life)
• John 6:62-66 (Jesus as the Faithful Remnant of One)
• John 6:67-71 (Rethinking Judas Iscariot and his sin)

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• John 7:1-10 (Jesus and Judean Authorities)
• John 7:12-26 (Are you mad? Who is trying to kill you?!)
• John 7.27-31(We’ve heard of Jesus for a while. He cannot be the Christ!)
• John 7.32-36 (Loosing control, unorthodox communities and Egyptian Temples)
• John 7.37-39 (A Fabricated Old Testament Quotation or An Astounding Reference to the Temple?)
• John 7.40-48 (Debating the Person of Jesus)

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• John 7.53-8.54 (The Woman Caught in Adultery: Oral Tradition or Fabricated Story?)
• John 8.12-23 (Is Jesus from above or from below?)
• John 8.24-30 (“Unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins” )
• John 8.30-33 (Freedom in the Roman world during the Pax Romana period)
• John 8.37-46 (Did Jesus call “the Jews” the children of the Devil?)

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• John 9.1-5 (Spitting on the ground and man born blind)
• John 9.8-40 (Healing of the man born blind: part 2)

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• John 10.1-19 (The Battle of Israel’s Shepherds)
• John 10.22-41(The Battle of Israel’s Shepherds. Part 2)

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• John 11.1-44 (Resurrection of Lazarus , Jews and Jewish Tradition)

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• John 12.1-19 (Anointing of Jesus: The End is Near)
• John 12.20-32 (Why did Jesus think that his time has come?)

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• John 13.1-20 (Twelve new leaders for twelve old tribes)
• John 13.21-36 (The Last Supper and Jesus’ betrayal)

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• John 14.1-31 (Jesus is going to prepare a place for us)

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• John 15.1-11 (Israel, Joseph and Jesus)
• John 15.12-25 (The love of Israel and the Twelve Apostles)

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• John 16.1-33 (Hardship, Spirit and Victory)

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