Does the layout of the Fourth Gospel parallel that of the Old Testament tabernacle?
Yes it would seem so. When this question arose, we went back to some notes which we had made many years previously, when our Bible class was studying Tabernacle Shadows. In some notes I found a notation to that effect. Unfortunately, my notes do not reveal the name of the author to whom I was indebted for the suggestion, but I think it may have been Edersheim. Some time after, the same suggestion came to my attention in a later work entitled Explore the Book by J. Sidlow Baxter. In the Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 8, verse 5, the writer refers to Israel s tabernacle as a symbol and shadow of the true tabernacle; while in the 9th chapter of that epistle, after briefly mentioning the two compartments into which the tabernacle was divided, and after enumerating the furniture in each, the writer goes on to say that the annual entrance of the High Priest into the Most Holy was but a figure, pattern, type, or illustration of the passing of the antitypical High Priest (our Lord Jesus) thro
