![]() The Gospel of John was written sometime around AD 70, the final form being completed sometime between AD 90 and 110. So have fun with it, read different interpretations, and see what the Holy Spirit might have to tell you about Jesus.)Ī bit of background will be necessary here. ![]() But I’m probably going to sound pretty assertive as I make my point, because, well, I just get fired up about it, and I really like this interpretation. It well could be that Jesus was feeling empathy for Mary and Martha, or that he was feeling real human grief for his friend, or even that he was troubled by the crowd’s unbelief. (A bit of housekeeping before we start: I should just say that I am by no means purporting that this is the only valid interpretation of this story. It wasn’t even because he was entering into Mary and Martha’s grief and empathizing with them. It is that, when Jesus wept, it was not because he was mourning for Lazarus. It could just be that he was having normal feelings of comparison toward John, knowing him to be beloved, but it just makes so much more sense to me that he and the disciples would have had extra curiosity about what would happen to those like Lazarus who were raised from the dead.īut one thing that Harstine suggested to us has become an absolute burr under my saddle, so to speak. This, then, would account for why, in John 21, Peter turns back and shows odd concern about how the beloved disciple would die. My favorite of these theories is that the beloved disciple who wrote John is, in fact, Lazarus, not John. A number of his teachings and various theories he presented for us to mull over have made their way into my posts, and even more linger around in my brain. Those who have read my blogs over the years know that I semi-frequently make references to my university professor, Stan Harstine, a Gospel of John scholar who profoundly shaped my way of interpreting scripture.
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