George R. Beasley-Murray's commentary on the Fourth Gospel is a standard in the Word Biblical Commentary series, and this is his revised edition. Each section moves through bibliography, translation, textual notes, form and structure, verse-by-verse comment and then explanation, so the exegetical work and its theological payoff stay distinguishable.

Beasley-Murray engages the critical literature on John at full strength while holding to the Gospel's own claims about the one it presents. The volume assumes some Greek and is pitched at the pastor willing to work, the seminary student and the scholar; it is a reference to keep on the desk through a long preaching series rather than a book to read through.