Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel by R. Alan Culpepper

Author:R. Alan Culpepper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-06-02T23:52:00+00:00

The reasons for the Jews' response are explained not in terms of their "Jewishness" but in universally applicable characteristics: they have never heard or seen the Father (5:37), they do not want to come to Jesus so that they might have life (5:40), they do not have the love of God in themselves (5:42), and they do not receive Jesus (5:43) or seek the glory of God (5:44). An even more basic reason emerges later: they are from a different world order. They live on the wrong side of John's dualism: "You are from below, I am from above; you are of the world, I am not of this world" (8:23). Thereafter they are associated with all of the negative categories and images in the gospel: the world, sin, the devil, darkness, blindness, and death. In their unbelief the Jews are `symbols, types of the universal human condition."" By not having heard or seen the Father, they are Jesus' opposite; in their response to Jesus they are the opposite of the disciples. The pathos of their unbelief is that they are the religious people, some even the religious authorities, who have had all the advantages of the heritage of Israel.

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