04_Parker_222_244_222-244 10/07/15 12:41 Pagina 227 227 IS THE SUBJECT OF tete,lestai IN JOHN 19,30 “IT” OR “ALL THINGS” ? 227 phrase avllV i[na marturh,sh| peri. tou/ fwto,j (1,8), the reader must supply the verb h=lqen (and its embedded subject) from 1,7. Likewise, in the phrase avllV i[na fanerwqh/| ta. e;rga tou/ qeou/ evn auvtw/| (9,3), the reader is to supply “he was born blind” from 9,2. Thus, for him to abbreviate a clause and expect the reader to transfer the subject “all things” from tete,lestai in 19,28 to the identical verb form in 19,30 would not be a departure from his standard practice. This essay also assumes that Jesus’ knowledge that “all things are finished” (19,28) was eventually expressed by the phrase tete,lestai (19,30). This practice is consistent with the author’s por- trayal of Jesus knowing something shortly before he announced it: Knowing Saying Passage gnou,j le,gei John 5,6 h;|dei e;legen John 6,6 eivdw,j ei=pen John 6,61 h;|dei (no verb of saying) John 6,64 h;|dei ei=pen John 13,10-11 e;gnw ei=pen John 16,19 eivdw,j le,gei John 18,4 eivdw,j ei=pen John 19,28.30 This position is strengthened further in John 19,30 if Gundry is correct in his classification of ou=n as an inferential conjunction. “Confirming this translation is the postpositive ou=n toward the be- ginning of v. 30: ‘therefore, when he had received the wine vinegar Jesus said tete,lestai’. The illative (ou=n) indicates that Jesus said tete,lestai (v. 30) because he knew that ‘all things are now fin- ished’ (v. 28)” 15. This evidence confirms what numerous scholars have already argued: tete,lestai in 19,30 was simply expressing in words what Jesus had already known in his heart in 19,28 16. If both pa,nta and the verb in 17,10: “and all that is mine is yours and all that is yours is mine” (kai. ta. evma. pa,nta sa, evstin kai. ta. sa. evma,). 15 GUNDRY, “New Wine”, 292. For a detailed analysis of the use of ou=n in John, see P. ELLINGWORTH, “Translating Oun in John’s Gospel”, BT 51 (2000) 135-143. 16 BENGEL, Gnomon, II, 483, commented on tete,lestai in John 19,30: “This word was in the heart of Jesus in ver. 28: it is now put forth by word of mouth”; J.P. LANGE Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical (Grand Rapids, MI 1976) III, 687 writes, “It is finished.―