Hermeneia: John 2: A Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapters 7–21 (Herm)
Overview
This second volume of Ernst Haenchen’s two-volume commentary on the Gospel of John contains a number of valuable insights. The introductory material on Johannine criticism is some of the clearest exposition for students available anywhere.
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Top Highlights
“It is not merely a private scene, but a public, ritual scene, the threefold character of which is conceived as a counterpart to the threefold denial of Peter. For this reason, Peter does not say, ‘Lord, I deeply repent that I denied you three times,’ and Jesus does not reply, ‘Good, then all is forgiven you.’ It has to do, rather, with the fact that Peter forfeited his prerogative to lead the community of Jesus by his threefold denial. Now, however, he is again expressly acknowledged as that leader. Peter is not thereby acknowledged as bishop of Rome, but as the leader of the Jerusalem community, which was orphaned by Jesus’ death.” (Page 226)
“‘This illness is not unto death; it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it.’ This remark functions as background: the illness is not of the absolutely fatal kind—yet Lazarus will sink very deeply into the shades of death before Jesus raises him. God’s glory does not consist in sparing the faithful life’s difficulties, but precisely in refusing to do so, he shows that he is able to make the impossible possible through his Son.” (Page 57)
“The Evangelist believed that there was nothing higher than fellowship with the Father, and he believed that one could share in that fellowship here and now through the experience of the spirit. He therefore interpreted the primitive Christian tradition of the return of Jesus at the end of time as just another form of what he himself had experienced.” (Page 124)
“Kierkegaard wrote in 1837: ‘If Christ is to come in order to dwell in me, that has to transpire in accordance with the heading of the gospel for the day in the calendar: ‘Christ enters through closed doors.’ ’13 That applies not only to Kierkegaard.” (Page 211)
- Title: John 2: A Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapters 7–21
- Author: Ernst Haenchen
- Series: Hermeneia
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 1984
- Logos Release Date: 2006
- Pages: 384
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Commentaries--Collected works; Bible. N.T. John › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:HRMNEIA64BJN
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:01:22Z
