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The First Epistle of John stands out from the others due to its form, but they are united by language, style, contents, themes, and worldview. [9] The Second and Third Epistles of John are composed as regular greco-roman letters, with greetings and endings, while the First Epistle of John lacks such characteristic markings and instead resembles a sermon or an exhoratory speech.
John 2 opens on the "third day". [5] The second/third century theologian Origen suggested this was the third day from the last-named day in John 1:44 [6] [7] and the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary argues that it would take Jesus three days to travel from Bethabara in Perea to Cana in Galilee.
Cana is very positively located in Shepherd's Historical Atlas, 1923: modern scholars are less sure.. Among Christians and other students of the New Testament, Cana is best known as the place where, according to the Fourth Gospel, Jesus performed "the first of his signs", his first public miracle, the turning of a large quantity of water into wine at a wedding feast (John 2, John 2:1–11 ...
The wedding at Cana (also called the marriage at Cana, wedding feast at Cana or marriage feast at Cana) is a story in the Gospel of John at which the first miracle attributed to Jesus takes place. [1] [2] In the Gospel account, Jesus, his mother and his disciples are invited to a wedding at Cana in Galilee.
Codex Bezae, text of John 1:1-16. John 1:4. εν αυτῳ ζωη εστιν (in him is life) – א D it vg mss Irenaeus lat Heracleon Clement pt Origen pt text omitted – W supp εν αυτῳ ζωη ῃν (in him was life) – All other mss. (rell) John 1:18
But more recently James Royse argues that, with the possible exception of John 13:19, the corrections are all by the hand of the original copyist. [7] Elizabeth Schrader Polczer adds that, in the case of John 11, the copyist may have introduced an entirely new character, Martha, to the text, but this argument remains controversial. [8]
The Acts of John refers to a collection of stories about John the Apostle that began circulating in written form as early as the 2nd-century AD. Translations of the Acts of John in modern languages have been reconstructed by scholars from a number of manuscripts of later date. The Acts of John are generally classified as New Testament apocrypha.
Johannine literature is the collection of New Testament works that are traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, or to the Johannine community. [1] They are usually dated to the period c. AD 60–110, with a minority of scholars, including Anglican bishop John Robinson, offering the earliest of these datings.