Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Open questions on John 10
- 2 Der alttestamentlich-jüdische Hintergrund der Hirtenrede in Johannes 10
- 3 The history of religions background of John 10
- 4 Tradition, history and interpretation in John 10
- 5 John 10 and its relationship to the Synoptic Gospels
- 6 A syntactical and narratological reading of John 10 in coherence with chapter 9
- 7 Johannes 10 im Kontext des vierten Evangeliums
- Notes
- Index
5 - John 10 and its relationship to the Synoptic Gospels
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Open questions on John 10
- 2 Der alttestamentlich-jüdische Hintergrund der Hirtenrede in Johannes 10
- 3 The history of religions background of John 10
- 4 Tradition, history and interpretation in John 10
- 5 John 10 and its relationship to the Synoptic Gospels
- 6 A syntactical and narratological reading of John 10 in coherence with chapter 9
- 7 Johannes 10 im Kontext des vierten Evangeliums
- Notes
- Index
Summary
On the hypothesis of a direct dependence upon the Synoptists and in continuity with the approach used in our previous examination of some pericopes, such as the arrest of Jesus and the footwashing of the disciples, we examine John 10 in the hope that the results will be equally fruitful and convergent. Although the hypothesis of direct dependence upon the Synoptists was generally denied in the last halfcentury, for centuries it was the general consensus and it has gained its protagonists within the last twenty-five years. It is in that light that we will examine the text to see how familiar John, whose view was certainly retrospective, could have been with the Synoptic material and even with the gospels themselves.
A trial of Jesus by ‘the Jews’ (John 10:22–39)
Since a sound point of departure is to proceed from the clear to the more obscure, we shall start with the second half of chapter 10, i.e. with verses 24–39, which to a certain extent may be considered an anticipation of the Passion Narrative of Jesus as we know it from the Synoptic Gospels. Here we observe several elements which normally belong to such a narrative: the enemies of Jesus are quoted and there is a sort of arrest of Jesus (verses 24a, 31, 39), followed by a trial consisting of an interrogation about his Messiahship (verse 24b), a self-defence of Jesus which mainly coincides with a Messianic selfproclamation of his divine sonship (vv. 25–30, 32, 34–8) and a condemnation to death on the basis of blasphemy (verse 33) with an attempt at stoning him.
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- The Shepherd Discourse of John 10 and its Context , pp. 75 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991