1. INTERPRETATION FLOW CHART
4. Focus on larger context. How does your passage fit into the larger context or book as a whole.
Begin: Interpretive Question and key passage serve as input to Interpretation
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5. Investigate other relevant scriptural passages which give insight
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1. Detailed Observation: Focus on the immediate (and possibly the larger) context. Carefully work the context of the strategic passage; CIE
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End: Final Summary and Interpretive conclusion(s)
2. Personal Word Study
of selected terms identified in contextual study. Sources: immediate context, book context, corpus, and canon.
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Be Question-Driven: Always keep your question in mind as you research,
Be Text-Driven: Answer it with evidence from John
3. Investigate Social and Historical contexts in Bible Dictionaries, commentaries or other resources
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