This popular verse-by-verse exposition of John, based on Bruce's own translation of the Gospel, reflects Bruce's customary ability to make the benefits of his scholarship accesible to the general reader. Footnotes and bibliography are included, pointing the reader to resources for further study.

These accessible commentaries are for anyone who wants to enter a serious study of God's Word. Each volume guides the reader through the literary and theological issues in the text and provides correlation to multiple numbering systems for word study. This volume includes the entire NLT text of John and 1–3 John, translation notes, and fresh expository commentary. AUTHOR BACKGROUND Dr. Philip W. Comfort has studied English Literature, Greek, and New Testament at the Ohio State University and the University of South Africa. He has taught at Wheaton College, Trinity Episcopal Seminary, and Columbia International University. He currently teaches at Coastal Carolina University and is a senior editor of Bible reference at Tyndale House Publishers. Dr. Wendell C. Hawley graduated from the University of Oregon (BA and MA) and from Western Baptist Seminary. He was awarded the LLD from California Graduate School of Theology and the DD degree from Western Baptist Seminary, Portland, Oregon. Dr. Grant R. Osborne is professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Prior to his work at Trinity, he served as a pastor for over 4 years and taught at Winnipeg Theological Seminary and the University of Aberdeen. He received his Master of Arts in New Testament from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the Doctor of Philosophy in New Testament from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

A popular, up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to the Gospel of John made accessible for the educated lay person.

In his preface to this devotional commentary on the Gospel of John, Meyer writes: "This is the Gospel of the Divine Life of Jesus. The eagle has always been its recognised emblem, as denoting its sublime and heavenly character. And, clearly, in its diction, its insight into the deepest truths, its repeated testimony to the Glory and Deity of our Lord, it holds a unique, place among the records of His life. It soars. It holds fellowship with the Throne. Its eyrie is in the Heart of God. And yet, in one of its aspects, this Gospel is as much the record of the Man Christ Jesus, as of the Only-begotten Son; and for this it is of inestimable worth to all who desire to follow in His steps. There is no part of Scripture more conducive to the culture of the inner life; and it is under this aspect that it is considered in the following pages." This volume contains the following meditations: The Word (John 1:1) The Word In Creation (John 1:2-3) The Word As Light (John 1:9) The Word Made Flesh (John 1:14) The Word Declaring the Unseen God (John 1:18) Three Memorable Days (John 1:23, 29, 37) The Son of Man (John 1:51) The First Miracle (John 2:11) The Temple of the Body (John 2:21) A Psalm of Life (John 3:6) The Shadow of the Cross (John 3:14) “Sent” (John 3:34) Life As a Fountain (John 4:14) Daring to Act in Faith (John 4:50) The Divine Master Workman (John 5:17) The Will of God (John 5:30) The Father’s Name (John 5:43) The Father’s Gift to the Son (John 6:37) The Bread Which Gives and Sustains Life (John 6:57) The Words of Jesus (John 6:68) Rivers of Living Water (John 7:37-39) The Penitent’s Gospel (John 8:11) The Light of Life (John 8:12) Christ’s Absorption in His Father (John 8:28) Made Free by the Son of God (John 8:31, 32, 36) The Glory of Christ (John 8:50) The Works of God (John 9:4) The Blessed Life of Trust (John 10:4) The Ideal Shepherd (John 10:11) The Work of an Ungifted Worker (John 10:40, 41, 42) Love’s Delays (John 11:6) Anointed for His Burial (John 12:3) Falling Into the Ground to Die (John 12:24) The Troubled Saviour (John 12:27) The World and Its Prince (John 12:31) The True Light of God’s Children (John 12:35-36) The Laver in the Life of Jesus (John 13:5) Heaven Delayed But Guaranteed (John 13:36) “Many Mansions” (John 14:2) The Reality of Which Jacob’s Dream Was the Shadow (John 14:6) Christ Revealing the Father (John 14:8-9) The Great Deeds of Faith (John 14:12) How to Secure More and Better Prayer (John 14:16) The Other Paraclete (John 14:16) The Three Dispensations (John 14:17) Three Paradoxes (John 14:18-19) Many Mansions for God (John 14:23) Christ’s Legacy and Gift Of Peace (John 14:27) The Story of the Vine (John 15:1) “Abide in Me, and I in You” (John 15:4) Prayer That Prevails (John 15:7) The Hatred of the World (John 16:2-3) The Work of the Holy Spirit on the World (John 16:8) Christ’s Reticence Supplemented by the Spirit’s Advent (John 16:12-15) The Conqueror of the World (John 16:33) Consecrated to Consecrate (John 17:19) The Lord’s Prayer for His People’s Oneness (John 17:21-23) The Love That Bound Christ to the Cross (John 18:4) Drinking the Cup (John 18:1-14) The Hall of Annas (John 18:13) How It Fared With Peter (John 18:16) The Trial Before Caiaphas (John 18:24) “Judas, Which Betrayed Him” (John 18:2) The First Trial Before Pilate (John 18:28) The Second Trial Before Pilate (John 18:39) The Seven Sayings of the Cross (John 19:16) Christ’s Burial (John 19:40) The Day of Resurrection (John 20:1) The Lake of Galilee (John 21:1) Peter’s Love and Work (John 21:15) The Life-Plan of Peter and John (John 21:22) Back to the Father (John 21:25)

Originally published in 1948, this now-classic study by Merrill Tenney treats the Gospel of John as a literary unit and provides a straightforward analysis of the text. Tenney first outlines the structure of the Gospel, then offers a careful exposition of John’s text according to six major periods of Christ’s life, and finally presents a topical analysis of the Gospel. Not a critical commentary but, rather, a well-organized guidebook complemented by helpful charts and diagrams, Tenney’s John: The Gospel of Belief, reissued in this new format, will continue helping pastors, teachers, students, and other Bible readers grasp the aim and major themes of John.

This excellent commentary by Herman Ridderbos engages seriously the host of twentieth-century interpretations of John while also developing its own integral understanding of John in which the Gospel emerges as a profoundly theological work. Ridderbos presents John in its distinctively apostolic character and includes important criteria for the literary and homiletical exegesis of the Fourth Gospel.

When Raymond E. Brown died in 1998, less than a year after the publication of his masterpiece,An Introduction to the New Testament, he left behind a nearly completed revision of his acclaimed two-volume commentary on the Gospel of John. The manuscript, skillfully edited by Francis J. Moloney, displays the rare combination of meticulous scholarship and clear, engaging writing that made Father Brown’s books consistently outsell other works of biblical scholarship. An Introduction to the Gospel of Johnrepresents the culmination of Brown’s long and intense examination of part of the New Testament. One of the most important aspects of this new book, particularly to the scholarly community, is how it differs from the original commentary in several important ways. It presents, for example, a new perspective on the historical development of the Gospels, and shows how Brown decided to open his work to literary readings of the text, rather than relying primarily on the historical, which informed the original volumes. In addition, there is an entire section devoted to Christology, absent in the original, as well as a magisterial new section on the representation of Jews in the Gospel of John.