John’s Gospel provides readers with an eschatological vision that is both peculiar and revolutionary. If the Synoptic Gospels evoke an eschatology of imminence, the Gospel of John evokes an eschatology of immanence. If in the Synoptic traditions God’s kingdom arrives in power “before some standing here [should] taste death,” in the Johannine tradition God’s kingdom, … Continue reading Jerusalem witch trials: John’s magician of immortality