The Book of John


 * “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was in the beginning, with God. Everything came about through, and without him not one thing came about. What came about through him was life, and the life was the light of mankind; and the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it. There was a mans sent from God; his name was John, This man came for testimony, to testify concerning the light, so that all should believe through him. He was not the light, but was to testify concerning the light, The light was the true light, which illuminates every person who comes into the world. He was in the world, and the world came about through him, and the world did not know him. He went to his own and his own people did not accept him. Those who accepted him, he gave them power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name, shoe are born not from blood or from the will of the flesh or from the will of man, but from God.”
 * 1st century CE
 * “the metaphorical language of of the Gospel of John reflects the strong influence of Platonic philosophy on Jewish communities within the Roman Empire.”
 * The Gospels of Mark, Luke, John, and Matthew “form the core of the collection of twenty-seven in the New Testament” (Norton World B, p.19)
 * Gospel of John dates to ~100 CE
 * “The Gospel of John … recounts the life of Jesus, but with a very different narrative line and a deep concern to incorporate Platonic philosophy and mysticism into the expression of divinity in the person of Jesus Christ, identified as the Word of God.”
 * Goes from Jesus being acclaimed as Christ to after his death & resurrection
 * “For John, Christ is the Word through which God creates all things, a mediator between matter and spirit, the temporal and the eternal.”