The Orthodox Christian Bible Study Series, The Gospel of John: A Complete Verse-by-Verse Commentary from the Church Fathers

This is a complete verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel of John. All twenty-one chapters are here, divided into sixty-two studies that run in order from the Prologue to the charcoal fire on the shore in chapter 21. Each study prints the full Scripture passage first, then works through it line by line. Nothing is skipped, including the hard sayings.

No interpretation in this book is the compiler's own invention. Every reading is credited to a named Father. St. John Chrysostom, St. Cyril of Alexandria, and Blessed Theophylact of Ohrid carry most of the weight, with Augustine, Athanasius, Gregory the Theologian, and a few others brought in where they have something particular to say. More than 125 longer quotations sit in panels beside the commentary, each cited by work and homily number, so you can check. The panels keep the Fathers' own words... the commentary explains them.

This deep dive includes:

- The full Gospel text in traditional English, with thou and thee updated to you

- Sixty-two studies covering every verse

- More than 125 quotations from the Fathers, all cited

- Red rubric lines recording when the Church reads each passage in her services

- A day-by-day reading plan for the fifty days from Pascha to Pentecost, with page numbers

The Scripture text follows the Authorized Version and the Byzantine textual tradition the Orthodox Church still uses in worship. The feasts and readings marked in these pages are common to the whole Byzantine rite, so the plan works the same in a Greek parish, a Russian one, or an Antiochian one. The writing itself stays plain. it assumes no Greek and no seminary. If you read it alongside the Church's calendar, the book turns itself to the right page each morning.