A book by an outstanding Russian historian, philologist, and cultural scholar, and a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, G. P. Chistyakov, is devoted to one of the most complex texts of the New Testament—the Gospel of John. In terms of genre, it is a large essay that successfully synthesizes theological-cultural and historical-philological approaches to the New Testament texts. It is written based on the most recent achievements of New Testament scholarship; it takes into account all advances in biblical criticism, and at the same time reveals the timeless meaning of the Fourth Gospel—its constant relevance and its address to our contemporaries. The book is written in excellent literary language and is an outstanding example of popular scholarly literature, comparable to works of the same genre by D. S. Likhachev, A. V. Men, S. S. Averintsev, and other Russian cultural scholars.