We’ll get to spoofing in a minute, but let’s swim in a different direction first: toward a truism. Jesus was different. Just how different? Well, that is quite a subject, one which John seemed to figure was inexhaustible1.
If you opened the note after the word inexhaustible, then you saw the last verse of John’s gospel. Let’s now wind all the way back to the first verse of that same Jesus biography.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
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14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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