The temple is a major theme in John's gospel. Yet, the most significant event in temple life—the Day of Atonement—is strikingly absent. That is, until we look more closely.

Resources to Click

“Entering Pilate’s Unholy of Holies: How Jesus’s Cross in John’s Gospel Fulfills the Day of Atonement” – David Schrock
“How John’s Prologue Placards the Glory of God’s Son: 10 Things About John 1:1-18” – David Schrock
“Seeing New Creation Light in John 2-4: Three Ways Jesus Replaces the Darkness of the Old Covenant” – David Schrock
“Three Literary Mountains; Seeing the Chiastic Structures of John 7” – David Schrock
“Seeing John 9 with New Eyes: A Few Notes on Literary Structure” – David Schrock
“The Clothes Make the Man: Seeing the Priesthood of Christ in John’s Gospel” – David Schrock
Theme of the Month: One Passion, Four Gospels
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Books to Read

Heaven on Earth: The Temple in Biblical Theology – T. Desmond Alexander & Simon Gathercole
Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John – Paul M. Hoskins
That Scripture Might Be Fulfilled: Typology and the Death of Christ – Paul M. Hoskins
A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters: The Word, the Christ, and the Son of God, (Biblical Theology the New Testament Series) – Andreas J. Köstenberger
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? A Biblical Theology of the Book of Leviticus (New Studies in Biblical Theology) – L. Michael Morales
The Priesthood of Christ and His Ministers – Andre Feuillet trans. Matthew J. O’Connell
The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God – G.K. Beale
Graded Holiness: A Key to the Priestly Conception of the World – Philip Peter Jenson
“Hebrews,” by George H. Guthrie in Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament – ed. G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson
Jesus the Priest – Nicholas Perrin

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