Luke 16.39-31 mentions ‘Lazarus’ in a parable. This is discussed in a new article by Reuben Bredenhof (NTS, 2020): The unique name Lazarus in Luke 16.19-31 has prompted interpreters to posit an association with the Lazarus raised from the dead by Jesus in John 11, a proposal that has a long pedigree (Origen, Fr. Jo.…

Introduction: (twin pools) there used to be a pool we do not know what ‘sheep’ refers to the gate is not known The New Testament gives no information of this Sheep Pool. Birket Israil? 6 sites for this pool There was no pool and that the 5 porticeos symbolize the 5 books of Moses For…

gJohn has multiple authors/editors. More names does not mean it’s more likely to be an eyewitness. Odd Numbers: Literary Creativity: Loaves from 2 Kings: Seamless Tunic and Parallelism:

C. K. Barrett concludes: “There is no evidence for his [John’s] residence in Ephesus in any orthodox Christian writer earlier than Irenaeus. It cannot but appear probable that if John had been alive in Ephesus (a great center of Christian life and letters) in or near A.D. 100 some trace of the fact would have…

Dustin Smith (2015) claims that several passages in John, like John 8:58 and 17:5, are actually referring to figurative pre-existence in the mind of God rather than saying that Jesus literally pre-existed his birth. He cites passages from Jewish and Christian literature to show that things were thought of as existing before their creation: That…

In his Hermeneia commentary, Haenchen adds in brackets “of the category divinity” to explain the sense of “divine” here. He points to the interesting usage in Philo of Alexandria (De Somniis 1.229-230), which was likely influential on the Logos concept in John. Philo here says that the most ancient Logos is not ὁ θεὸς but…

This paper claims that at least 8 scholars according to Brown “agreed to omitting [verses] 6-8, 15.” Brown suggests that the “evidence is inconclusive” for the rest of the prologue.Ehrman also has written that he doesn’t think 1-18 was written by the same author as the rest of the gospel. He suggests that John is…

German theologian Rudolf Bultmann, in his famous and still widely cited commentary on John, wrote many decades ago:The thesis has been represented, occasionally even in very early times but strongly from the beginning of this century, that the original order of the text [of John] has been disturbed, through an interchange of leaves or by…

The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries Volume IV on John (Colin G Kruse) also notes that early readers may have understood it to be a polemic against Domitian who demanded that people worship him as Lord and God. This makes sense, Thomas’ confession acts as a theological climax to both John’s narrative and christological project. It…

Goodacre makes the point in a recent Mythvision podcast that the gospel of John is the same written phenomena as the Synoptic gospels, follows the same structure, and it is not credible this is coincidence. It’s much the same reason he believes that Luke copied Matthew – Luke follows Matthew’s structure where Mark didn’t (i.e.…