‘I have said these things to you while I am still with you.’ John 14:25

Professor Sean Freyne, the New Testament lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin used to divide the Gospel of John into two books: the Book of Works (Chapters 1-11) and the book of Words (Chapter 12-21).

The miracles that John recounts in Chapter 1-11, are seen from John’s perspective not just as incidents in a story, but as deliberate signs pointing to the glory of Jesus. After the turning of the water into wine in John Chapter …