The Gospel of John is unique in the New Testament. Where the Gospel of Mark begins with Jesus’ launch into ministry, Luke opens with the foretelling of John the Baptist’s birth, and Matthew commences with a summary of Jesus’ genealogy, John steps much further back: to the very beginning! In the beginning was the Word! Right from the opening words of John, he not only shows us the supremacy and glory of Jesus, but he calls us to recognise and respond to Jesus. John’s intent is not only to provide a faithful account of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, but to cause a change in us. That we would believe that Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God. The purpose of John’s Gospel—as Don Carson put it—is to make us believers.