Three false facts about John's Gospel

We're getting closer to the release of my new book, The Eye of the Beholder, all about the Gospel of John! Here I discuss what I call three "false facts" about John. A false fact is something that is taken to be a fact (though it really isn't) that all theories must take into account. It often goes unquestioned and thus distorts theories. The three false facts I discuss here all concern the way that Jesus speaks in John's Gospel and the way that John represents Jesus' speech. This is a theme that has caused a lot of confusion in approaching the historicity of John--the idea that Jesus sounds soooo different in John as opposed to the Synoptics, supposedly calling into question the robust historicity of John. Enjoy!

Originally uploaded to YouTube Feb 1 2021