John

Among the four Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life, John is the odd one out. He has a Jewish mindfulness like Matthew, an historian’s self-awareness like Luke, but a spiritual air all of his own. From the opening paragraph, John is concerned not just with Jesus the man, but Jesus who is the creator himself, come in-the-flesh to reveal God to the world, and give his life, ‘that whoever believes in him may not perish, but have eternal life.’ John is unapologetic about his aim to provide his readers with the historical and spiritual knowledge required to know Christ and believe in him. But it is Jesus himself who confronts us in the pages of John’s Gospel, demanding a decision one way or the other.

This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true. Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

John 21:24-25