The last four chapters of John move from the garden to the courtyard to the cross and then, unexpectedly, to a charcoal fire on a beach and a restored disciple. Boice calls it triumph through tragedy, which is the shape of the whole account rather than a comment on its ending.

This concluding volume completes the five-volume exposition, handling the trial narratives and the resurrection appearances with the same verse-by-verse care as the rest. James Montgomery Boice was senior pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and these chapters were preached there before they were printed.