The Gospel of John seems to stand out the most, and contains the most original information. To many devout Christians the Gospel of John is considered the “spiritual gospel,” because of how it portrays Jesus as this divine figure sent down from heaven. Although the Gospel of John stands out, there are a few similarities between the synoptic gospels, and the Gospel of John, including; the passion, and Jesus’s miracles just to name a few.
The Gospel of John focuses more on Jesus’s earlier ministry, and presents the death …show more content…
In my old Sunday school, I was taught that the seven statements were Jesus’s answer to the question “Who is Jesus?” (“I am the bread of life”(6:35), “I am the light of the world”(8:12), “I am the door of the sheep”(10:7), “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep”(10:11), “I am the resurrection and the life”(11:25), “I am the way, the truth, and the life”(14:6), and “I am the true vine”(15:1). Most Christians believe that these phrases were the way Jesus admitted himself as the Holy Messiah, and as a divine figure of the Kingdom of God, we believe this because, no other prophet of God had spoken this way of themselves; the way he presents himself as the source of life and shows that he has the ability to restore create or sustain life shows us that he has to be some divine form of