How Does Steinbeck Present Jesus In The Gospel Of John

The Gospel of John seems to display Jesus as a very powerful and persuasive person. Right from the beginning, in (John 1.1-4), Jesus has been described as though he was God. The gospel starts with the lines, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” The detailed descriptions of the signs also promote the idea of Jesus’s greatness.

The Gospel of John has a core message that describes Jesus to be the highest of all humans in terms of divinity. It also tries to sell the fact that Jesus holds in himself, something so divine, that believing in him would be equal to believing in God. John says that Jesus said that God works through Jesus and Jesus does the Work of God. There are several instances where Jesus performs a miracle and then says that everything he did was either request God for something to happen or somehow channel the power of God to perform the miracle. In John 6.35 and John 6.37, Jesus says, “I am the bread of life; he who believes in me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst”, and “All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to do my own will I will not cast out.” He is seen performing a miracle in the very beginning of John 9 when he makes a man, who was blind from birth, see. …show more content…
The seven signs that I found are as follows: I am the Bread (John 6.35), I am the Light (John 8.12), I am the Door (John 10.7), I am the good Shepherd (John 10.11), I am the Resurrection and the Life (John 11.25), I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14.6), I am the true Vine (John