Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Gospel of John is one of the world's greatest works of literature, modelled on classical Greek philosophy and drama, but soaring above these in its own new genre. It was itself less successfully imitated later. And John's is the only narrative gospel with a legitimate claim to composition by an eyewitness to Jesus - the anonymous Beloved Disciple. But the original work was never completed. Others later edited the manuscript to suit the doctrines of the new Christian religion, even adding some spurious new material. Making things worse, much of the book got badly disordered over time. Simply put, the gospel as we have it today is a mess. This translation undoes the damage to restore - not the unfinished original text, but the masterpiece the Beloved Disciple and his amanuensis sought to compose. By so doing, we gain a sharply drawn first-hand account of Jesus of Nazareth. Here we encounter a vividly real man sent by God to urge humanity to accept God's will - described in a narrative set down before creeds and doctrines repackaged him as God incarnate. For a world that has replaced truth with lies, spirituality with commerce, wisdom with hatred, this is a work that gives us pure, undiluted sacred wisdom as shared with us by a man many call the greatest who has ever lived. This work includes an expanded Introduction and Commentaries that burnish this masterpiece for the modern reader.