Monday, October 29, 2012

Observations from the Greek text in John's Gospel: 5:19-47


Throughout these passages, Jesus refers to the Father as “the one who sent me”.  John actually creates what I will call a “stylist word play” around two Greek verbs that mean “to send”.  The first one is πέμπω (pempo).  It occurs 4 times in our said passage.  The second one is ἀποστέλλω (apostello).  It occurs 3 times in our said passage.  In one of those uses, it refers to John.

I should also say that this is a habitual word play as it occurs throughout John’s Gospel.

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