Post 10: John 1-6

One main difference I noticed between Luke and John is the writing style. The writing in John is very poetic and pretty, with a lot of metaphors and similes. The writing style in Luke was simpler and tended to feel more to the point. Although both books are mainly focused on writing an account of Jesus’s life that will lead the reader to faith, John seemed more interested in this goal whereas Luke seemed to also have the goal of providing a chronological and ordered, yet incomplete, account of Jesus’s life. Luke started with Jesus’s birth and followed his journey to Jerusalem, ending with his death. John started in the middle of Jesus’s death and felt more like a collection of stories instead of an ordered account. Also, Luke is mostly made up of short parables and stories, but John had more long, poetic speeches. John also seemed to include more foreshadowing. I noticed a few allusions to Jesus’s eventual death and resurrection throughout the reading. I think that although Luke felt more like a full, cohesive picture of Jesus, John was more interesting to read because of the beautiful language and the longer, more fleshed-out stories. Theologically, John seemed to emphasize the importance of Jesus being the son of God. It seemed like every time Jesus talked, he was telling someone about how God sent him to save the world. Although this was obviously a big part of Luke as well, it seemed like one of John’s main priorities.