There is something that stands apart about the language of John's Gospel. (A similar comment could be made about the Epistles of John and Revelation, also.)
There is a clarity, a sublimity, a simplicity and a directness about the language which John employs, led by the Spirit of God. This goes to show that when the many holy men who spoke as they were moved by the Spirit of God, their personalities and individual characteristics still shone through. (Luke, a physician, gave accurate renditions of factual knowledge about what the Lord Jesus and the Apostles did, for example. Matthew's strong sense of Jewish heritage comes over strikingly. Mark's immediacy in style - 'straightway', 'And...' is evident.)
John writes emphatically about the Son of God, about love, about life, about eternity: themes which will occupy the believer in the Lord Jesus in heaven, and so surely now also, meditating upon John's Gospel brings joy and encouragement?
Blessings.
There is a clarity, a sublimity, a simplicity and a directness about the language which John employs, led by the Spirit of God. This goes to show that when the many holy men who spoke as they were moved by the Spirit of God, their personalities and individual characteristics still shone through. (Luke, a physician, gave accurate renditions of factual knowledge about what the Lord Jesus and the Apostles did, for example. Matthew's strong sense of Jewish heritage comes over strikingly. Mark's immediacy in style - 'straightway', 'And...' is evident.)
John writes emphatically about the Son of God, about love, about life, about eternity: themes which will occupy the believer in the Lord Jesus in heaven, and so surely now also, meditating upon John's Gospel brings joy and encouragement?
Blessings.