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
[Luke 24,44]
[5,39]
These are my words that I
You search the scriptures
because you think that in spoke to you while I was still
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them you have eternal life; with you— that everything
and it is they that testify on written about me in the law of
my behalf. Moses, the prophets, and the
psalms must be fulfilled.
[Luke 18,31]
See, we are going up to
Jerusalem, and everything that
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is written about the Son of Man
by the prophets will be accom-
plished.
[Matt 23,37 par.]
[5,40]
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city
Yet you refuse [ouv qe,lete] to [1/2]
that kills the prophets and
come [evlqei/n] to me to have
stones those who are sent to it!
life.
How often have I desired to
gather your children together
as a hen gathers her brood
under her wings, and you were
not willing [ouvk hvqelh,sate]!
[Luke 15,28]
Then he became angry and
[1/2] refused to go in [ouvk h;qelen
eivselqei/n].
See also the parable of the
great banquet in [Matt 22,2-14
par.].
Cf. also [Matt 7,14; 11,28; 19,29
par.].
[Luke 4,24 par.]
[5,41]
Truly I tell you, no prophet is
I do not accept glory from
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human beings
hometown.