John’s Witness: The Gospels’ Missing Pearl

By Ian R. Harvey and Thomas F. Rogers

Two Pearls of Unimaginable Price

Jesus’s victory over death at Golgotha is a well-known pearl of his Gospel. What is less understood is how Christ also defeated hell in Gethsemane. In John’s Witness, author Ian R. Harvey illuminates this missing pearl to deepen our understanding of God’s boundless love.

John was the sole eyewitness to the events in Gethsemane, and yet his own pearl of the account is altogether absent from his Gospel. In piecing together John’s missing story, we structurally rely on nested flashbacks to Gethsemane during John’s anxious dash to visit Jesus’s empty tomb on that third day. We learn with John as he ponders Gethsemane’s deep meaning. The biblical angel there provides him with added context and special visions of Eden that clarify Jesus’s atoning work.

Because of Eden we must have Gethsemane.
Without Gethsemane there could be no Golgotha.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Apr 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665720465

Ian R. Harvey

Dr. Ian R. Harvey is a patented nanotechnologist who seeks reasonable answers from the scriptures to better understand the infinitely loving nature of God and simplify core religious jargon for heartfelt, personal meaning. These are my five loaves and two fishes lovingly offered to support the mission and Easter messaging of The Chosen, which uniquely relatable storytelling style chiefly inspired this book.

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ALSO BY IAN R. HARVEY

John’s Witness—Without Gethsemane There Could Be No Golgotha (Archway Press from Simon & Schuster, 2022)

The Lineage of the Lie: Revealing Paul’s Man of Sin (Outskirts Press, 2018)

Satan Gets to Reign—BAD THINGS HAPPEN—God Gets the Blame (Outskirts Press, 2017)

Well, Dr. Nibley, I Do Have a Suggestion: Always Believe God; Always Disbelieve Lucifer, Sunstone 183, Winter 2016

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

John’s Doubts

Keep Watch with Me

Behind the Tormentor’s Mask

A Merciful Ransom from a Just Claim

Total Victory

Epilogue

References

Glossary

Foreword

Besides his professional acumen as a materials scientist and nanotechnologist, Dr. Ian R. Harvey is a passionate and devout LDS believer. His new book imaginatively and brilliantly collates foundational scriptural events in two separate gardens, Gethsemane and Eden. Also con- sider how deftly he invokes C. S. Lewis’s metaphorical Edenlike scene from yet another created world.

The posited role of the versatile apostle, evange- list, revelator, and sole witness to Christ’s sacrificial suffering in Gethsemane, John, intriguingly emerges. Strikingly, while each of the other three evangelists re- corded John’s experience at Gethsemane, in his own Gospel John says nothing. I elaborate in my published writings about this fact in a way that I think Harvey has honored in his understated telling of