In this episode, we take on a hard question most believers quietly avoid: Why does John’s Gospel sound so anti-Jewish in English—and is that really what John is? We trace how theological agendas, imperial politics, and liturgical habits turned a deeply Jewish Gospel into a weapon against the very people it came from. Along the way, we stop at the woman at the well and let John 4 do its work: a Jewish Messiah crossing a hostile boundary between Jews and Samaritans, refusing to honor the lines His own people keep, and offering living water on the wrong mountain to the wrong woman. We unpack what hoi Ioudaioi (“the Jews”) actually meant in John’s world, how “the Jews” became a blunt translation that suited replacement theology, and why giving John back to his Jewish context doesn’t weaken the Gospel—it exposes how much we’ve let later church anxieties speak louder than the text itself.

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