The Gospel of JohnThe genius of the Apostle John lies in his ability to penetrate the theological foundations which underlie the events of the life of Jesus. It reaches the deepest, the baptism and the call of the Twelve are undoubtedly presupposed, they are not really described. Even the central themes of the Synoptics have almost disappeared: in particular, the kingdom of God or the kingdom of heaven, so important in the preaching of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels and central theme of his narrative parables, is barely mentioned as such (cf 3:3, 5; the Gospel to bring into this sublime circle of interior love all those who respond by 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 this truth is different – ​​very different. Like waters flowing from the same source, the Johannine, Pauline, and Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) all flow from the same historical Jesus, but flow through different lands, capturing different textures, and emerge as visibly different rivers. The Johannine River, as an perceptive reader will quickly realize, that the book traverses a profoundly different world: a world with its own language, its own symbolism, and its own theological point of view. The reader who enters this world immediately senses how different it is from the world of Paul and the Synoptic Gospels. And so, a few words are necessary to help guide our path. First, the Gospel of John leaves out much of the material...... middle of paper ......ius. Rarely in Western literature has form been woven into content, motif sewn into meaning, structure wrought into theme with greater subtlety or success. The result is a gospel of profound paradox that first reveals itself and then resolves in absolute symmetry. To carefully examine the major patterns of paradox is to discover how the literal level of the gospel fully engenders meaning and how the pattern ultimately unravels the preaching. The Gospel of John is the most complex, complex, and longest work in the New Testament. The author, however, did not hesitate to divide his Gospel into more manageable pieces. Even in the central part of his composition, which is strictly coherent, he paid the greatest attention to sequences and individual sections. The great effect of the Fourth Gospel is due to the merging of its parts into a continuous whole..