The Gospel of John And Christian Origins
“The Changing Gospel -- The Gospel of John and Christian Origins Excursus III. The Changing GospelHow you read the Gospel will depend largely on the importance you attach to the problem spots, or aporias, as scholars call them, from a Greek word meaning “impasse,” points at which the continuity of the Gospel, read carefully, is open to question. Most readers, of course, are blithely unaware of these problem spots and would no doubt endorse the suggestion of David Friedrich Strauss (famous for hi...s skepticism about the historical reliability of the Synoptic Gospels), who wondered whether the Gospel itself might be said to be that seamless robe—ungenähter Leibrock, χιτὼν ἄραφος—of which the Gospel itself speaks (John 19:23)[1] But once you study the Gospel more closely you notice that at various points there is indeed a lack of continuity, most obviously at the end of chapter 14, where Jesus concludes a long discourse by saying, “Let’s move away from here,” and then carries on talking for a further three chapters.MoreLess
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