John's Witness

Two Pearls of Unimaginable PriceJesus s victory over death at Golgotha is a well-known pearl of his Gospel. What is less understood is how Christ also defeated hell in Gethsemane. In John s Witness, author Ian R. Harvey illuminates this missing pearl to deepen our understanding of God s boundless love.John was the sole eyewitness to the events in Gethsemane, and yet his own pearl of the account is altogether absent from his Gospel. In piecing together John s missing story, we structurally rely on nested flashbacks to Gethsemane during John s anxious dash to visit Jesus s empty tomb on that third day. We learn with John as he ponders Gethsemane s deep meaning. The biblical angel there provides him with added context and special visions of Eden that clarify Jesus s atoning work.Because of Eden we must have Gethsemane.Without Gethsemane there could be no Golgotha.