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Synoptic
Same view
3 ______ gospels
Synoptic
Authorship of John?
Deliberately anonymous, to show that the true author was the Holy Spirit. Johns name was added later.
John son of who?
Zebedee
Jesus is what in John?
Bold, assertive, combative
Prologue is found in John…
1:1-18
Prologue is
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God…
First five books of the Bible are called the what
Pentatute
What makes Johns stories unique?
The one on one conversations and situations
What’s rare in John? What’s abundant in John?
Parables. Allegories.
No account of what in John
Jesus’s birth, Jesus’s baptism, Jesus’s temptation, the last supper, gethsemane, Jesus’s ascension, any healing of demonized people
What does John try to do differently in his book
Tries to impart knowledge the other gospels don’t have. He also has firsthand experience, he was there-eyewitness.
In John, Jesus visits where a lot
Jerusalem
Jesus’s ministry had an impact more on where than where
Judea and Jerusalem then galilee
Only __ days recorded in John out of __ days
29 out of 1000 (3 years)
Purpose of John is found in John ___
20:30-31
Purpose of John
That we may believe in the Son of God, that we may have life in His name.
John is seen as transition between…
“Old” and “new” generation of christians
Last living disciple is
John
In John, Jesus does not have to do what to heal but can do what instead?
Doesn’t have to touch but can’t do it from the distance
Jesus is ultimate _______
Revelation of God
Father is seen through
Jesus
Jesus replaces
All revelations
Salvation is
Life, now and fulfilled at his coming
End is
Here-now and drawing nigh
Ministry of Holy Spirit is
The important gift for the “new” generation
Jesus is son of who and who
Of God and man
Prologue does what?
Sets tone and introduces major themes (Jesus is present, unique son, author of life)
John reaches 3 people’s:
Christian’s, Jews, and Greeks
Reaches Christians how
Hymns
Reaches Jews how
Chiastic structure (< middle most important)
Reaches Greeks how
The term: the “Word” to describe Christ
John 3:30
“He must be more and I less”
John the Baptist fades into obscurity after
Jesus’s baptism
John the baptists crowd still comes; reference is
Acts 18:24-26, Acts 19:1
Older theology is viewed as
More reliable and better
Jewish tradition = two messiahs
Levi (Priest) and Judah (King)
Purpose of Jesus’s baptism is
To reveal His identity to Israel as the messiah.
True Israelites are those who
Believe in Jesus
Chapters 2-4 are about
Replacement
Everything old is replaced by
Jesus
As a result of the miracle of wine the disciples
Believes
Wedding at Cana is end of what
Calling of the disciples
Jesus might of been the reason of lacking of wine because
He brought the 12 disciples