Abstract
It is an honour to continue a conversation about Johannine christology in which Gilbert Van Belle has been a participant over the years. My own major foray into Johannine christology sought to discern the underlying structure beneath the many formulations found on the surface of the text of the gospel. Fortunately these were not so varied as to make tracing a pattern impossible, but rather were sufficiently constant to make an outline of themes possible and to see the syntax which linked them.