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From the moment one reads the opening lines of John’s Gospel they realize that it is much different than the other Synoptics. While the three Synoptics give remarkably similar accounts of their subject’s life, John creates a portrait of Jesus that differs in both outline and content from the other Gospels. The fourth Gospel offers a different chronology of Jesus’ ministry, a different order of events, a different teaching, and a distinctly different teacher. The Gospel of John is so different from the Synoptics that most scholars view it as fundamentally not a portrait of the historical Jesus, but a profound meditation on his theological significance. The community that produced this Gospel held a high view of Jesus divinity, and in some respects, viewed him equal to God. John is believed to have taken this view due to visitation by the Paraclete who revealed Jesus’ true nature. The author of this Gospel is traditionally John, son of Zebedee and brother of James, one of the Twelve. The writer, who does not identify himself, states that his version of Jesus’ life is based on testimony of an unnamed “beloved disciple.” Scholars classify the work as anonymous. It is thought to have been composed from about