other ways to understand this questions: What is John's Christology?
How did the author try to portray Jesus to his intended audience?
2007-09-29 16:52:19 · 20 answers · asked by Draper 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus is God.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 10:37-38 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”
Therefore, believe in Jesus for he is the lamb that forgives sins.
John 1: 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
2007-09-29 17:05:06 · answer #1 · answered by Sam L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just like the other synoptic gospels John has an intended audience and purpose for his account. John's sole purpose and intended audience was to portray Jesus as the Messiah.
The Gospel of John is split into two parts. The Book of Signs and the Book of Glory. The Book of Signs contains all the accounts John saw fit to include in his presentation to reiterate and portray Christ as the Messiah. Directing his message to those people who did not yet believe. There just so happens to be Seven Signs in this section of the gospel. Seven being a special number in religion, meaning many, and infinite.
The Book of Glory holds the account after the Seven Signs are given. These are the events of the Last Supper, Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ. These are the events that Glorify Christ as the True Messiah. These events further the Signs presented earlier in the Book.
Thus, John's whole purpose was to write to an audience of unbelievers. Declaring to them and portraying events that conclude Christ is the True Messiah.
The other Gospels have audiences as well, but that is a different post....
2007-09-30 00:16:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is portrayed in the book of John as the Son of God. Read John 20:31.
2007-09-29 23:56:59 · answer #3 · answered by Jonathan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 1:1. Starting from the beginning Jesus is God.
2007-09-30 00:05:12 · answer #4 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jewish historian Josephus of the first century C.E. mentions some 12 persons, other than those in the Bible record, bearing the name JESUS. It also appears in the Apocryphal writings of the last centuries of the B.C.E. period. It therefore appears that it was not an uncommon name during that period.
But the Jesus Mentioned in the Book of John is None other than the " Christ". Of which there is Only ONE.
2007-09-29 23:58:02 · answer #5 · answered by conundrum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Gospel of John was written by John, one of the original disciples of Jesus. John was also related to Jesus Christ through Mary. John, though younger than Jesus, and the youngest of the disciples, was the only one who never doubted, abandoned, nor denied Jesus Christ. He was a happy, affectionate, peace-maker of the disciples and the one all the disciples went to when they needed a favor, or had a question, or a concern so that John would intercede on their behalf.
John stayed as close as possible to Jesus when he was arrested. He stayed with him through the trials, the tortures, the public beatings, and he supported Mary, and helped her follow Jesus to the cross on Calvary. The last thing Jesus did before He died was to give the motherless John Mary to take and care for as his mother, and give Mary a man who would love her and care for her the rest of her days. John did so. John is the only one of the original disciples who was not beheaded or murdered. John lived to be a very old man. And it was to John, while he was imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos, that Jesus appeared and revealed the Book Of Revelation to.
John portrayed Jesus as he saw him, knew him to be, and as he loved Jesus. John, of all the disciples, was very open and sensitive and privy to Jesus' emotions, cares, concerns, thoughts, desires, and great love for all people's needs, pains, trials, and sufferings.
In my opinion, the Gospel of John is the truest and most honest and clearest picture of Jesus Christ in my opinion in all the New Testament.
2007-09-30 00:10:31 · answer #6 · answered by faith 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The answer to the question is: Joh 10:30 I and my Father are one. This is a pretty good description of who is the Jesus of the book of John: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQfKoCzn3Eg&mode=related&search=
2007-09-30 00:30:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was portrayed as this.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
2007-09-30 00:03:18 · answer #8 · answered by guitarrman45 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
John portrays the complete fullness of who Jesus is. He is not only the Son of God, or the Messiah, He is also God Almighty
2007-09-29 23:58:24 · answer #9 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God's Son. John 10:36
John said at John 20:31: "These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, [not God, but] the Son of God.”
If Jesus is God, who is God's Son?
2007-09-29 23:54:28 · answer #10 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋