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Gospel of John

John’s Human Jesus

In contrasting Mark’s gospel with John’s, the Rev. Griffith-Jones notes that Mark’s gospel illustrates the humanness of Jesus by depicting him as a man with feelings (“The Un-Gospel of John,” BR 18:01). Over against this portrayal, the good reverend notes that in John’s gospel, Jesus “never loses control of his situation.” Perhaps. But one cannot deny there is a certain amount of “losing it’ demonstrated by John 11:35, where the gospel reads, “And Jesus wept.”