Philipp F. Bartholomä, «John 5,31-47 and the Teaching of Jesus in the Synoptics. A Comparative Approach.»
Within Johannine scholarship, the assumed differences between Jesus’ teaching in John and in the Synoptics have frequently led to a negative judgment about Johannine authenticity. This article proposes a comparative approach that distinguishes between different levels of similarity in wording and content and applies it to John 5,31-47. What we find in this discourse section corresponds conceptually to a significant degree with the picture offered in the Synoptics, though couched in a very different idiom. Thus, the comparative evidence does not preclude us from accepting this particular part of Johannine speech material as an authentic representation of the actual content of Jesus’words.
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JOHN 5,31-47 AND THE TEACHING OF JESUS IN THE SYNOPTICS
3. The Witness of the Father (John 5,36-44)
[Matt 11,4-5 par.]
[5,36ab]
Go and tell John what you hear
But I have a testimony greater
and see: the blind receive their
than John’s. The works that
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the Father has given me to sight, the lame walk, the lepers
complete, the very works that are cleansed, the deaf hear, the
I am doing, testify on my dead are raised, and the poor
behalf have good news brought to
them.
[Matt 12,28 par.]
But if it is by the Spirit of God
that I cast out demons, then the
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kingdom of God has come to
you.
[Matt 9,6a par.]
But so that you may know that
the Son of Man has authority
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on earth to forgive sins
Cf. also [Matt 11,20-24 par.],
as well as the narrative com-
ments in [Matt 8,27 par.; Luke
5,21].
[Matt 10,40]
[5,36c.37a]
(…) whoever receives me re-
that the Father has sent me.
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ceives the one who sent me.
And the Father who sent me
[Luke 10,16]
(…) the one who rejects me re-
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jects the one who sent me.
[Matt 11,27a par.]
[5,37b]
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has himself testified on my
over to me by my Father; (…)
behalf.
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