So does it still apply to the modern reader if they're not Jewish? Is there a different set of lenses that the modern reader should put on to track with John's argument and, and try to understand?Try to see if they can see Jesus properly? Or is it just a book that's so timeless and so well done that it neatly translates from that original audience John was trying to persuade to a modern audience today?

We are individual subjects surrounded by all these objects that we can know in some way, but not really.

And so all we're left with is ultimately in a postmodern frame is with our own subjectivity.

But John has a very different way of imagining what the world is and what God's ultimate purpose is.

For John, he invites us to see reality as, as a sanctuary of divine presence.

And that presence is the presence of God in his word.

For John, that's his primary, primary image.

To round things out here, if a normal person like me goes and picks up this book, what would we get out of it?