This gives the audience a much-needed visual breather. To his credit, the director tries to compensate by cutting away to a montage of black-and-white flashback images suggested by Jesus' words. I must confess, I kept nodding off during this segment of the film. This runs the risk of being a deadly bore in cinematic terms. It means that the actor playing Jesus must deliver lengthy speeches, especially Jesus' farewell after the Last Supper. Was it wise or foolish to adopt this approach? That depends on your point of view. One of my friends used the term `verbose'. The result is an understandably wordy script. The film combines dialogue with narration by veteran actor Christopher Plummer. It employs every single word of the text, as rendered by the Good News Bible translation. `The Gospel of John' purports to be a faithful retelling of the fourth gospel. John is startlingly different in its details, style and tone - so much so, that this gospel almost didn't make it into the accepted canon of New Testament books. Their `eyewitness accounts' are remarkably alike. Matthew, Mark and Luke are referred to as the `synoptic' gospels. There are four gospels in the New Testament. Reviewed by livewire-6 N/A In the beginning was the Word

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