3.20 David Schrock • Reading • "Entering Pilate's Unholy of Holies: How Jesus's Cross in John's Gospel Fulfills the Day of Atonement

The temple is a major theme in John's gospel. Yet, the most significant event in temple life—the Day of Atonement—is strikingly absent. That is, until we look more closely.

Resources to Click

• “Entering Pilate’s Unholy of Holies: How Jesus’s Cross in John’s Gospel Fulfills the Day of Atonement” – David Schrock
• “How John’s Prologue Placards the Glory of God’s Son: 10 Things About John 1:1-18” – David Schrock
• “Seeing New Creation Light in John 2-4: Three Ways Jesus Replaces the Darkness of the Old Covenant” – David Schrock
• “Three Literary Mountains; Seeing the Chiastic Structures of John 7” – David Schrock
• “Seeing John 9 with New Eyes: A Few Notes on Literary Structure” – David Schrock
• “The Clothes Make the Man: Seeing the Priesthood of Christ in John’s Gospel” – David Schrock
• Theme of the Month: One Passion, Four Gospels
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Books to Read

• Heaven on Earth: The Temple in Biblical Theology – T. Desmond Alexander & Simon Gathercole
• Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John – Paul M. Hoskins
• That Scripture Might Be Fulfilled: Typology and the Death of Christ – Paul M. Hoskins
•  A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters: The Word, the Christ, and the Son of God, (Biblical Theology the New Testament Series) – Andreas J. Köstenberger
• Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? A Biblical Theology of the Book of Leviticus (New Studies in Biblical Theology) – L. Michael Morales
• The Priesthood of Christ and His Ministers – Andre Feuillet trans. Matthew J. O’Connell 
• The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God – G.K. Beale
• Graded Holiness: A Key to the Priestly Conception of the World – Philip Peter Jenson
• “Hebrews,” by George H. Guthrie in Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament – ed. G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson
• Jesus the Priest – Nicholas Perrin