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Another Page from the Past
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First Impressions: Come and See and Remain with Me - John 1:43-51
As a new Christian I read the narrative (as I thought it was) of Matthew’s gospel and was captured by it. I read on in Mark and Luke, and then came to John.
Even I could see that the first verses of John were not narrative. This was poetry, and its grandeur instantly grabbed my attention! In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God...
But then I came to this bizarre quasi-narrative of Jesus choosing his disciples. It is not only very different from the stories in the other three gospels, which I had effortlessly, and naively, melded together into the one story. It is not even a good story. If I turned this in as part of an essay, it would come back with red biro all over it.
Doesn’t make sense! would bounce out from the page.... Read on >>>>