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The temple is a major theme in John's gospel. Yet, the most significant event in temple life—the Day of Atonement—is strikingly absent. That is, until we look more closely.

Resources to Click

• “Entering Pilate’s Unholy of Holies: How Jesus’s Cross in John’s Gospel Fulfills the Day of Atonement” – David Schrock
• “How John’s Prologue Placards the Glory of God’s Son: 10 Things About John 1:1-18” – David Schrock
• “Seeing New Creation Light in John 2-4: Three Ways Jesus Replaces the Darkness of the Old Covenant” – David Schrock
• “Three Literary Mountains; Seeing the Chiastic Structures of John 7” – David Schrock
• “Seeing John 9 with New Eyes: A Few Notes on Literary Structure” – David Schrock
• “The Clothes Make the Man: Seeing the Priesthood of Christ in John’s Gospel” – David Schrock
• Theme of the Month: One Passion, Four Gospels
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Books to Read

• Heaven on Earth: The Temple in Biblical Theology – T. Desmond Alexander & Simon Gathercole
• Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John – Paul M. Hoskins
• That Scripture Might Be Fulfilled: Typology and the Death of Christ – Paul M. Hoskins

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