Hendriksen, W Exposition of the Gospel According to John vols In his New Testament Commentary Series Hunter, A M The Gospel According to John Lange, John Peter The Gospel According to John Morgan, G Campbell The Gospel According to John Tasker, R.V.G The Gospel According to St John The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries Westcott, B F Commentary on John OTHER RELATED SOURCES Griffith-Thomas, W H The Apostle John: His Life and Writing Orr, James The Resurrection of Jesus Robertson, A T Epochs in the Life of Jesus _ A Harmony of the Gospels Scroggie, W Graham St John: Introduction and Notes Strong, James The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Tenney, Merrill C John: The Gospel of Belief Thomas, Robert L., ed New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Another view is that a close disciple of the apostle, referred to as John the elder, was the book’s author See A M Hunter, The Gospel According to John, pp 12-14 Merrill C Tenney, New Testament Survey, p 189 John’s gospel is sometimes called “The Ephesian Gospel.” A Plummer, quoted by W Graham Scroggie, A Guide to the Gospels, p 426 August Tholuck, quoted in John Peter L a nge, Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, 17:vii Ibid., 17:15 The New English Bible translates 20:31 as “recorded in order that you may hold the faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.” The word Jew appears about seventy times in the gospel The word synoptic is used to identify the similarity of Matthew, Mark, and Luke The word itself is from the Greek synoptikos, which means “seeing the whole together.” 10 For example, Matthew omits Jesus’ rst miracle in Cana; Mark omits the nativity story; Luke omits Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman; John does not record Jesus’ ascension to heaven (Neither does John report Jesus’ nativity and genealogy, youth, wilderness temptations, or transfiguration.) 11 The text of 5:1 reads “a feast of the Jews.” Some ancient manuscripts read “the feast …,” suggesting that the main Jewish feast of the Passover was meant Bible students have interpreted this unnamed feast in various ways: Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, Purim, Dedication 12 NASB uses a helpful set of topical headings 13 Of course, the original autographs did not have chapter divisions, or, for that matter, verse divisions Such divisions are helps to us today for reference and for identification of small units of thought 14 For a discussion of various structures of ... that you may hold the faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.” The word Jew appears about seventy times in the gospel The word synoptic is used to identify the similarity of Matthew, Mark,... Concordance of the Bible Tenney, Merrill C John: The Gospel of Belief Thomas, Robert L., ed New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Another view is that a close disciple of the apostle,... The Resurrection of Jesus Robertson, A T Epochs in the Life of Jesus _ A Harmony of the Gospels Scroggie, W Graham St John: Introduction and Notes Strong, James The Exhaustive Concordance of