Few verses in the Bible have been quoted more-or

understood less well-than Jesus' promise in John 10:10.

Prosperity preachers have used it to promise financial

abundance. Others have reduced it to a future reward

waiting beyond death. Neither reading does justice to

what John actually wrote.

This book traces the theme of life through the whole of

John's gospel-from the Prologue's declaration that

"in him was life" to the final invitation to believe and

receive. What emerges is a portrait of abundant life

that is more demanding and more glorious: relational

rather than transactional, present rather than merely

future, and shaped by the cross that makes it possible.

Life to the full has already begun.