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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The Gospel of John, now we've been mentioning that there are four
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- Gospels. This is the fourth and the last one to have been written. This was written by John the
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- Apostle. Now as we looked at the other Gospels, we saw that Matthew focused on Jesus Christ as the
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- King, where Mark focused on Jesus Christ as the Servant, Luke focused on Jesus Christ as a man, and now we see the bookend to that being
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- John, which focuses on Jesus Christ being divine. 76 % of the book of John refers to Jesus Christ as God, either directly or indirectly.
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- So this has the overwhelming emphasis on his deity. But another characteristic that makes the
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- Gospel of John different than the other three Gospels, the other three are called synoptic Gospels, because they really talk about the life and ministry of Christ, the period of those three years of his ministry, where the
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- Gospel of John doesn't spend as much time on those three years of ministry, but really hones in on that last week of his life and gives the most details of what happened during what's called the
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- Passion Week. We get most of that detail in the book of John, dealing with that week and the resurrection and things like this.
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- John is going to focus the most there because his emphasis is to show that Jesus Christ is
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- God. This is why most people try to say if you're going to read one of the Gospels, start with John because it shows that Jesus Christ is
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