St. John's Gospel~Divine truths contained in literal meaning.
The Gospel According to St. John terms itself a Gospel. It is a proclamation of the Good News of Salvation (Jn 20:31). It starts like the others, with John the Baptist’s preaching and recounts miracles and teaching from the life of Jesus, His Passion, the empty tomb, and the Apostolic mission. Indeed, it retains the structure and the key points if the Christian kerygma. This means, according to Fuller, that it belongs to the traditional teaching of the ancient Church (see: Fuller, R., et al, A New Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture (Nelson, USA, 1975), p. 1022). However, John’s Gospel stands alone for numerous reasons. According to Brown, it contains a Jesus conscious of having pre-existed with God the Father prior to His Incarnation (17:5); a public ministry which concentrates on Jerusalem, rather than in Galilee; the absence of the Kingdom of God motif (It is only mentioned in 3:3,5), long discourses and dialogues as opposed to parables, a distinct lack of diabolic possessions, a…