The Bible Study Podcast, episode 319.

Today, the Bible Study podcast starts a study of the Gospel of John.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

Before we get into a study on the

gospel of John, I want to talk about John versus the synoptic gospels, and that is the gospels,

Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the synoptic gospels. They tend to try and deal with

Jesus ministry in what we believe is a chronological fashion. And they're written to three

different audiences. Mark being the first one written, written really to the Romans. And then Matthew

and Luke being written sometime later, Matthew to the Jews, and Luke to the Greeks or to the people

who are not originally Jewish. And then John is different because John

is written later on and it's written to the Christians and it assumes that you have read

at least one of the other gospels. And so John talks more about the why things happen than necessarily

the how. I mean, he'll still do a lot of that.

But I would suggest if you haven't read one of the other gospels that you do that before you

listen to this series. And we've done a study, for instance, on the gospel of Luke, I believe,

on the Bible study podcast. But it would be good to have that knowledge and then to hear this. John 1. The Word became

flesh. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the

beginning. Through Him all things were made. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

In him was life and that life was the light of all mankind.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

So if we compare this to the beginning of the other gospels, we get two of the gospels that start

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