There are four gospels in the Bible.

All of them tell about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

One of these gospels stands out as different than the rest.

Gospel, John.

And so why is it that the gospel of John feels so different?

It feels like a retelling of the Jesus story with a level of reflection.

And it's the same basic claims that Paul and the other Matthew, Mark, and Luke are making.

But the way Jesus talks in John and the way the narrative's voice talks about Jesus,

it feels like you're in a different movie.

Well, no, you're in a movie that's about the same person, but that has a really different director.

So today on the podcast, Tim and I discuss the identity of Jesus in the gospel of John.

We're going to look at a lot of amazing passages, including this one in John 17,

which Jesus prays for his disciples.

And he says, Holy Father, keep them in your name, the name which you have given me,

that they may be one even as we are.

This is so beautiful.

The thing that Jesus and his Father have had going for eternity,

that defines what God means to a Christian, that God is a community of love,

and that oneness and unity of love, inner oneness, is mirrored by Jesus' followers

when they show unity and oneness with each other by acts of loving, service and sacrifice.

I'm John Collins. This is the Bible Project Podcast.

And today, how John talks about the identity of Jesus in relationship with Yahweh, the God of the Bible.

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