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This story is rich in literary and theological themes interwoven with what has gone before in John’s gospel and with what is to come. Situated just after the “good shepherd” discourse and just before Jesus’ (...)

John 6:35-59 consists of teaching by Jesus centered on his proclamation, “I am the bread of life” (verses 35, 48). “I am the bread of life” is the first of the seven “I am” statements (...)

Jesus, particularly in the Fourth Gospel, would seem to have a somewhat ambivalent relationship to what we would call miracles but what John describes as “signs.” That’s an important distinction, actually, between signs and miracles. (...)

Any attempt to harmonize John’s version of Jesus’ demonstration in the temple in 2:13-22 with the Synoptic accounts (Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-18; Luke 19:45-46) risks missing John’s theological “take” on this important moment in the (...)

The structure of John 2:1-11 is typical of a miracle story: the setting is established (verses 1-2), a need arises (verses 3-5), a miracle addresses that need (verses 6-8), and there is a response to (...)

Sometimes we see a movie that wows us and we rush to tell others about it.  We want them to go see it for themselves so they may share the experience we had. This is (...)

The image many of us have of John the Baptist comes from his memorable depiction in the Synoptic Gospels (Matt 3:1-12; Mark 2:2-8; Luke 3:1-20).  He appears in the desert as a fiery prophet, an (...)

Each of the gospels begins with an account of Jesus’ origins. Mark introduces Jesus to us as an adult, telling us that Jesus was “a man from Nazareth” whose advent fulfills the arrival of God’s (...)

War scars the mind as much as the body. Horrifying images are burned into the collective memory. Civil War artist Alfred Waud, a journalist for Harper’s Weekly, sketched soldiers clearing a battlefield of the corpses (...)

Extravagance. Pleasure. Effusiveness. Exuberance. These aren’t ideas that we usually associate with Lent and the overture to Jesus’ passion. But Mary of Bethany understands differently. John 12:1-8 in Its Context Within the narrative world of (...)