Synopsis

“In my final year of university, I changed my field of study from New Testament Greek to the law. ‘The law,’ observed my Greek professor astutely, ‘is a jealous mistress.’ She was indeed. Always she had more for me to know and better skill to require. I left her by retiring a few years ago, and since then I have kept a promise to myself of over fifty years ago. I have returned to the gospel of John. It is as wonderful as I remembered. I have brought to it now some of what life has taught me in the meantime: Jungian psychology and a love for my gentle Friend Isaac Penington. I involve them both in retelling John’s story of the life of Jesus.” —Alan Asay