Mary's Voice in the Gospel According to John: A New Translation with Commentary

A brilliant scholar of the gospels offers a stunning new translation of the Gospel of John that captures and illuminates the influence and voice of Mary the mother of Jesusa voice which suffuses and transfigures the original with a mother's deep and universal compassion and wisdom. A New Light on Johns Gospel The Gospel according to John has always been recognized as different from the synoptic accounts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. But what explains the difference? In this new translation and verse-byverse commentary, Michael Pakaluk suggests an answer and unlocks a twothousand-year-old mystery. Marys Voice in the Gospel according to John reveals the subtle but powerful influence of the Mother of Jesus on the fourth Gospel. In his dying words, Jesus committed his Mother to the care of John, the beloved disciple, who from that hour . . . took her into his own home. Pakaluk draws out the implications of that detail, which have been overlooked for centuries. In Marys remaining years on earth, what would she and John have talked about? Surely no subject was as close to their hearts as the words and deeds of Jesus. Marys unique perspective and intimate knowledge of her Son must have shaped the account of Jesus life that John would eventually compose. With the same scholarship, imagination, and fidelity that he applied to Marks Gospel in The Memoirs of St. Peter, Pakaluk brings out the voice of Mary in Johns, from the famous prologue about the Incarnation of the Word to the Evangelists closing avowal of the reliability of his account. This remarkably fresh translation and commentary will deepen your understanding of the most sublime book of the New Testament.