“Whom are You Seeking?” in the Fourth Gospel
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https://doi.org/10.24193/sacrascripta.2020.1.05Keywords:
Seeking, the call narrative, resurrection, arrestation, the two disciples, Mary Magdalene, Judas, failure, the JewsAbstract
Of the four Gospels, the fourth Gospel uses the word “ζητέω” most often. The question “Whom are you seeking?” which is typical of the Evangelist, is addressed to various interlocutors: once to the two disciples of John the Baptist (Τί ζητεῖτε 1:38) and Mary Magdalene (τίνα ζητεῖς 20:15), and twice to the people who were going to arrest Jesus (Τίνα ζητεῖτε 18:4,7). The purpose of this research is to study a hypothesis: The seeking of Jesus by the two disciples in the call narrative (1:35-42) and Mary in the resurrection narrative (20:1-18) frame the failure of the Jews in the arrestation narrative (18:1-11).
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