Wednesday, December 12, 2012
On the Gospel of John
It just occurred to me recently, in studying
the Gospel of John, that Jesus spends the book in either the synagogue
or the Temple teaching, then run out of the Temple a few times, and then
avoiding the city altogether until the week of his death. It all
begins with him running people out of the Temple himself, accompanied by
the allusion to himself as the Temple. In the middle of it all stands
the man born blind who Jesus heals and who is thrown out of the
synagogue. Comparisons and parallels with the Book of the Revelation
should then follow. It's major things like that that you miss when you
preach and read Scripture in an atomistic and moralistic frame.
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