Jesus According to John

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It has been said that the whole Gospel of John is a series of faith journeys through which different persons responded to Jesus in different ways: his mother, Mary, and his father, Joseph, John the Baptist, “the Jews", the Samaritan woman, Judas, the Romans, Thomas, Peter and John himself. Scholars have made valuable suggestions as to why John wrote his story the way he did. Early Christian traditions associated with the resurrection, they say, form the basis of the Johannine account, which was written last among those of Mark, Matthew, and Luke, some 60 years after the event took place in about 33A.D. John himself would write that the reason he was writing these events down on papyrus was: "So that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, And that believing this you may have life through his name/"

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