The Gospel of JohnThe genius of the apostle John lies in his ability to penetrate the theological foundations that underlie the events of Jesus' life. He reaches the deepest baptism and the vocation of Twelve are undoubtedly assumptions, they are not actually described. Even the central themes in the Synoptics have almost disappeared: in particular, the kingdom of God or kingdom of heaven, so much a part of Jesus' preaching in the Synoptic Gospels and central theme of his narrative parables, is barely mentioned as such (see 3,3.5; 18,36). meaning of the events, to the relationships of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the work of redemption, and to the Trinitarian love for humanity which generated that work and which seeks through the gospel to lead to within that sublime circle of inner love all those who respond in faith to Jesus as the great "I AM". John deals with the same revealed truth as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Paul. But this way of approaching that truth is different, very different. Like waters from the same source, John, Paulinus, and the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) all flow from the same historical Jesus, but they flow through different lands, taking on different structures and emerging as evidently different rivers. a perceptive reader will quickly realize that he or she flows through a profoundly different world: a world with its own language, its own symbolism, and its own unique theological point of view. The reader who enters this world immediately notices how different it is from the world of Paul and the Synoptic Gospels. So, a few words are needed to help us orient our path. First of all, the Gospel of John leaves out a lot of material... half the paper... ius. Rarely in Western literature has form been woven into content, pattern stitched into meaning, structure forged into theme with greater subtlety or success. The result is a Gospel of profound paradox that first reveals itself and then resolves itself in absolute symmetry. Looking closely at the major models of the paradox means discovering how the literal level of the Gospel fully generates meaning and how the model ultimately reveals the preaching. The Gospel of John is the most intricate, complex, and relatively long work of the New Testament. The author, however, did not mind breaking his Gospel into manageable chunks. Even in the central part of his composition, which is strictly coherent, he paid maximum attention to individual sequences and sections. The great effect of the Fourth Gospel is due to the fusion of its parts into a continuous whole.