“In the beginning was the word… and the word was made flesh.” St. Augustine said that without these two key sentences the gospel of St. John is an enigma,’
He wrote, not so much to convert as to confirm the belief of those who believed that you may keep on believing.’
These book ‘is a work of John when he was already old and constantly a final testimony from the apostolic period. The earliest witness of the authorship of the gospel was Ireneus of Lyons, he tells us that it was produced in the Ephesus by John the apostle. ’ Without these Gospel we will miss many important and detailed events, about the life of Jesus as a pure man and a pure God.
As I had read the Bilble, I got confused on who’s the john that in the first chapter. But with the thanks to the movie about the Gospel of John it answered my question.
My fellow brother, who had brought and read his Good News Bible as the movie began. He was amazed. As he read the Gospel of St. John, he noticed that every word that was in the bible was precisely narrated in the movie.
As I searched in the Google I confirmed on what told before, it was true. It says that ‘The Gospel of John is a 2003 film that is the story of Jesus' life as recounted by the Gospel of John. It is a motion picture that has been adapted for the screen on a word-for-word basis from the American Bible Society's Good News Bible. This three-hour epic feature film follows John's Gospel precisely, without additions to the story from other Gospels, or omission of complex passages.’ Succinctly what he had used was also the same as what the director of the movie had used.
All the word that was narrated was all from the gospel. It important to recognize that this is the full Gospel and the movie didn’t followed the dramatic formula of Hollywood. ‘It is powerful and dramatic, but not structured in an Aristotelian fashion’