[B-Greek] AGAPAO in the NT

Daniel Gleason info at revelationjesuschrist.com
Fri Feb 6 00:25:38 EST 2004


Kevin Riley: The obvious problem here is that John the Baptist was dead not
only before the Gospel of John was written, but before much of the action in
the gospel occurred.  Whatever the link, it can't be that John the Baptist
is the Beloved Disciple, as the writer definitely identifies himself as the
BD [21:24].

Hi Kevin
I agree with you on that point. That's why I said "as impossible as seems."
Perhaps the problem is theology from the 2nd century till the present.
Perhaps the three stories in John 21 are not actual reports of historical
events. I am just analyzing how the gospel and the stories in it are
structured. John leaves many things unsaid in his accounts where the reader
has to fill in the words himself. If ones mind is made up that the stories
are historical, any unsaid word seems obvious to a reader. However, if a
story is viewed with a totally open mind, as an allegory, the impossible
becomes plausible. After all, the Greek text does say ...  "Went-forth
therefore this The Word into the Brothers, that The Disciple would not die."
(Jn 21:23).

The entire theme of John 21 is about being raised from the dead. I have just
shown you a verse that links the BD with this theme. Perhaps the unnamed
disciple is the raised from the dead John the Baptist? An impossible
conclusion from an impossible story?

Scripture interweaves the imaginative with the historical, sometimes
introducing what is utterly impossible, sometimes what is possible but never
occurred.
Early church father, Origen, Philocolia 1.8

Daniel Gleason





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