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 Summary 5. Investigate other relevant scriptural passages which give insight Summary 1. Detailed Observation: Focus on the immediate (and possibly the larger) context. Carefully work the context of the strategic passage; CIE Summary 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. Summary 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 Summary