Overview of the Book of John

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The overview of the week for this Sunday is the gospel according to John. John, of course, was one of the 12 apostles.

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He and his brother James were part of Jesus's inner circle, Peter, James, and John.

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So John was especially close to the Lord, so much so that he refers to himself as the disciple whom

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Jesus loved. John wrote his gospel sometime around 90 AD, and the theme of the

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Gospel of John is the divinity of Christ. It is often said that Matthew wrote his gospel to the

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Jews, Mark to the Romans, Luke to the Greeks, and John to the whole world.

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Because in John 3 16, which is probably the most famous verse in all of the Bible, he writes,

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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John wrote four other books or letters, the Epistles of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd

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John, as well as the book of Revelation, where along with this gospel and John and Revelation, he refers to Jesus by this unique term he calls him what?

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The Word. The Gospel of John begins this way, which is probably the most clear statement anywhere regarding the deity of Christ.

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He begins, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the

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Word was God. And he was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.

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And then in verse 14, he says that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as the only begotten of the

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Father, full of grace and truth. I think it's safe to say that John is the most theological of all of the

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Gospels, yet the message is very simple. John records the purpose of writing in chapter 20, verse 31, when he says,

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But these things are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the

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Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.