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Jon
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12-23-2010 4:37 PM


Reasons for the Similarities?
The Gospel of John has two endings:
quote:
John 20:30—31; 21:24—25 (NRSV):
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
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This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
What I find interesting is that these two endings are so similar; they both follow a simple form of 'Jesus did more stuff, we don't want to write it down, hopefully what we did write will convince you, have a nice day', though they do it in slightly different orders.
So, what might explain this? Were the stories that made up the two separate endings part of the same tradition, and so ended similarly? Were they from two separate traditions that just happened to follow that same form? Or, did the redactors adding chapter 21 just tack on that little bit so as to make the new ending look like the old one?
Jon
Edited by Jon, : Icon; and apostrophe glitch

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