text: [{"text_idx": "#000001", "text": "Commentary by Lynne Hilton Wilson Ph.D."}, {"text_idx": "#000002", "text": "John\u2019s Gospel (John) is known as the Spiritual Gospel. Jesus\u2019 discourses can stretch us to an eternal perspective and a spiritual view of life. In these four chapters, John includes discussions of many opposites: the triumph of light over darkness, living water and spiritual thirst, eternal freedom over slavery to sin, spiritual inheritance over earthy lineage, physical blindness, and spiritual blindness, 99 and 1, and good and bad shepherds."}, {"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "We find many of these same themes found in the Book of Mormon. To augment our NT study, here is a small sampling of references that consistently come from God to his \u201cother sheep\u201d (3 Nephi 15:21)."}]