The Kingship of Jesus in the Gospel of John. Sehyun Kim

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The low-status poor, lacking power, honor, and resources, such as the man who has been sick for thirty-eight years (5:1–9) and the man born blind (9:1–8), a child (4:46–54), a woman and a Samaritan (ch. 4), low-status Galileans (ch. 6), and those who habitually ignore the law (7:49).

      part i

The Kingship of Jesus in the Gospel of John

      2. Background and Methodology

      In the preceding chapter, I argued that the Johannine community was in conflict with the synagogue as well as with Roman imperial power. Accordingly, it is quite probable that the Gospel of John was written for the consolidation of the community in faith, although it does not seem that this is the only purpose of its composition, as I will argue further in this chapter. Then, I raised a significant question: why are so many christological titles employed in the Johannine Gospel? In my argument, I contend that John adapted a variety of the titles that were used to indicate the Jewish kingly Messiah and the Roman emperors in order to portray Jesus as the real king worthy of the audience’s lifelong allegiance in their complex and multicultural world.

      In the present chapter, first, while regarding the Fourth Gospel as a product of a multicultural and hybridized society which accommodated multicultural features, I will argue that the Gospel was written for multiple purposes: it was written for multicultural readers in order to present Jesus as king; to make the readers believe in him whom they could follow for eternity; and to challenge them to live in the world according to the ruling ideology of the Johannine new world to overcome conflict and oppression. In order to do this, I need to begin by dealing with the purposes of the composition of this Gospel and to scrutinize the kingship motifs therin, because they are closely related to the identity of the Johannine Jesus.

      In order to discuss this matter, in the first section of this chapter, I will present three major views of the purpose of the Gospel of John, including an investigation of the Johannine community as multicultural readers. In the second section, I will survey the kingship motif against the Jewish background and the Graeco-Roman to corroborate my research. In the last section, I will deal with postcolonialism as a major methodology of this book.

      The Multiple Purposes of the Gospel of John

      A Missionary Document for Various Groups and Individuals

      Polemic/Apologetic Purpose of the Gospel

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