Gospel Of John

John (The Gospel): In this particular book which is one of the four Gospels and is called the called the Gospel of John is known to be that of a what is recognized as what we would call or know as a narrative literary genre (Smith, 2016). According to our text, “The Author of this book is John and he is known at the “the beloved disciple” and the people that were receiving this were the Greek-speaking Jews that were living outside of the city of Israel. The Gospel of John was recorded or told to be written sometime following the year of 70 AD and before 90 AD in a place called Ephesus” (Hindson & Towns, 2013, pp. 383-384). In the Gospel of John, John himself shows that his identity falls on his own self as the only, “the disciple Jesus loved” …show more content…
According to scripture in the book of Psalms, it says, “And my God. My soul is cast down within mel therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar” (Psalm 42: 6, ESV). So according to this verse, Hermon was retrieving and searching for the Jordan river. Knowing this, it is said that the Jordan river overflowing in all the banks, so there was always water and the people would never run including during the harvest time (Joshua 3:15, ESV). Jesus was baptized in the Jordan river but there isn’t a for sure account on the location of where it was at, but most likely it was at the upper part of the river and Jesus was baptised by John the baptist. In general the baptism was organized and being done by John and his disciples (Smith, 2016). The Jordan river is shown in the bible many times even in the book of 2 Kings, where “Elisha was sent by an angel to go and wash himself in the Jordan seven time and he shall be clean” (2 Kings 5:10-14, ESV). Then there where Joshua led the israelites into the promised land and they crossed the Jordan on dry land. I believe the most important event that happened at the Jordan river would be John baptising Jesus in the river (Matthew 3:13,