Will Rogers once said that “a lot of what everybody knows ain’t so!”  Nowhere is that more true than in the realm of Biblical scholarship.  From my research in the gospel of John and many visits to the holy land I have discovered that a lot of what biblical scholars and commentators appear to know for sure seems doubtful at best, and downright wrong in some places.  For instance, not too many years ago it was an accepted axiom among Biblical scholars that the author of the Fourth Gospel always tended to “heighten the miraculous.” That is, whenever he came across a simple story from the life of Jesus, he embellished it.  He wrote his Gospel several decades after the event, and by that time his theological genius and fertile imagination had time to work on the story, it was said, and therefo…