The Messages of Jesus According to the Gospel of John the Discourses of Jesus I
The Messages of Jesus According to the Gospel of John the Discourses of Jesus I
James Stevenson Riggs
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It is rather in its teaching. The light of the whole narrative but irradiates the declaration of Jesus, "I am the resur- rection and the life. " When John wrote he saw the sig- nificance of this claim as interpreted by the resurrection of Jesus himself and shall we not say too, by the theology of Paul? It is the climacteric "I am. " The claim is Contains superlatively Messianic. It contains within itself the teric'l promise that life shall not only be called out of death, but *" triumphantly ca...rried through it and beyond it to a death- less blessedness. In the hour when Jesus uttered these never-to-be-forgotten words he reached the height of his Messianic declarations. Negative, as well as positive, criticism has recognized this great declaration as the theme and centre of this story. That the story itself is The story • 1 1 • • 1 . • 1 i i. I_' °° ideal no ideal composition constructed to give place to tins construc- claim of Jesus is evident both in its vividness and circum- stantiality.
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