John 20:30–31
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Every book worth reading has a purpose, a central aim that drives the entire project. The author of a cookbook wants you to be able to make a decent souffle. The author of a car manual wants you to be able to change your oil without ruining your engine. But the apostle John, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, has an infinitely higher goal. He is not trying to make us smarter sinners or more competent rebels. After twenty chapters of breathtaking theology, of signs and wonders, of confrontational dialogues and intimate discourses, John pauses, turns to his readers, and essentially tells us why he put the pen down. These two verses are the interpretive key to the entire Gospel. If you don't understand these verses, you will misunderstand everything that came before them. But if you miss the point of it all, you have missed everything.