john

incarnation

When God the Son became human, took on human flesh

johannine community

• Jewish Christians expelled by fellow Jews from the synagogues after Jewish-Roman War

• Samaritan and Gentile converts

author

someone from johannine community

audience

johannine community

date

90-100 CE

framework

• Prologue

• Book of Signs

• Book of Glory

• Epilogue

symbol

eagle

purpose

• Oppose false ideas about Jesus’ humanity and divinity

• Strengthen faith

• provide a more THEOLOGICAL , even abstract understanding of JC compared to Synoptics

themes

faith, love, resurrection

images of jesus

• Word 

  • God creates through the Word

• Unique Son of God

• Lamb of God

what john takes out of the synoptics

 

• focus on kingdom of God

• parables

• exorcisms

what john adds unlike the synoptics

 

• years

• literary aspects and images (anonymous characters, I AM statements)

• characters (samaritan woman, nicodemus, didymus ;), beloved disciple)

prologue reflects john’s background

• Incarnation - When God the Son became human, took on human flesh

• Demonstrates both divinity and humanity of Jesus 

• Demonstrates Jesus’ preexistence and vulnerability

• D.  Flesh (sarx) = mortality, weakness of human condition 

basic info behind i am statements

• seven of them

• Stress Jesus’ divinity

• Are metaphors that explain Jesus’ identity 

nicodemus

• attempts to defend Jesus from accusations of the Pharisees

• helps bury the body of Jesus

samaritan woman

• pretty cool

beloved disciple

• depicted as Jesus’ closest disciple

• Relationship between him and Jesus resembles the close bond between Jesus and the Father

• His death is foreshadowed at the end of the Gospel

  
  

wedding at cana

• First instance of John’s “anonymous”

• Mary is “anonymous” in Jn. because we are called to look up to her as our mother

The Man Born Blind

ts pmo

raising of lazarus

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