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This Entry will not be a direct step by step comparison between the canadian goose jacket synoptic gospels and John’s gospel, but instead it will describe the main ways in which Jesus is presented in John’s gospel, while pointing out some of the ways in which this presentation differs from that in the synoptic gospels.

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