to be healed in the bath, is, accordingly, a competitor. And suddenly – Lord! The cart is again ahead of the horse.
So this scene is made up from start to finish.
This is followed by a long morality of Jesus, whom the Jews allegedly were eager to stone for breaking the Sabbath – and He reads a sermon to them in response, and they suddenly listen to him, obediently listen to “His voice” like sheep at His feet – amazing! It could be attributed to a miracle if they suddenly calmed down – but they continue to break off the chain and it is completely incomprehensible what keeps them from reprisal against Him on the spot, of course, for the blasphemy.
“18 And the Jews sought to kill Him even more because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God His Father, making Himself equal to God” – and here is the insert of the second layer, here the second editors already directly deny the Son-godhood of Jesus, without cunning approaches of the first editors
They are eager to kill Him, and He keeps speaking with them so calmly.
“19 To this Jesus said: truly, truly, I say to you: the Son can do nothing of Himself unless he sees the Father doing: for what He does, the Son also does the same” – this phrase is found in various forms in e. Jn. at least five more times. And what is it that the Father does out of what the Son does? We find the answer below.
“20 For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all that He Himself does; and he will show him deeds greater than these, so that you will be amazed.21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants”– but where, whom and when did God raise from the dead? Jehovah – no one and never, and we have not yet really learned anything about the Father from Jesus. And why is it mentioned here then? Well – as a preparation in advance for the main miracle: the resurrection of Lazarus the Four-Day, the authors of the Gospel are impatient to tell about it and they run ahead. But the Judaizers are on guard, and immediately this impatience is suppressed.
“22 For the Father does not judge anyone, but has given all judgment to the Son, 23 so that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father” – the judgment was taken by the Jews from biblical prophecies about the “end times”! And in the third chapter, any mention of the judgment in the teachings of Jesus, as an element of the pagan Jewish legend, is suppressed.
“He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him” – similar to the phrase in the authentic sermon of Jesus, but we will meet it more than once.
“24 Truly, truly, I say to you: he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life” – impudently and unceremoniously right in the middle is inserted about judgment, which completely changes the meaning of this very important phrase, the utterance of Jesus, undoubtedly genuine, and constituting the core of his Teachings, as we will see with you in the future. This phrase should sound like this: “he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, has passed from death to life.”
In theory, this is where the chapter should end, it’s like a summing up, period.
And here the second floor of Judaization begins (or continues): it seemed to the second Judaizers that the Son of God was developed here, they, apparently, did not understand all the subtleties of the first implementation of the Jewish editing, and decided to add from themselves direct, straightforwardly, bluntly. Well, off we go, “according to the scriptures” to the end of the chapter.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. – Well, the zombie apocalypse promised by Mashiach suddenly sounds like the voice of Jesus – all of a sudden! And then it proceeds onto covreing all points of biblical prophecy:
5:26For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself: 5:27and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. 5:28Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, 5:29and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment. 5:30I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 5:31If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 5:32It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 5:33Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth. 5:34But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved. 5:35He was the lamp that burneth and shineth; and ye were willing to rejoice for a season in his light. 5:36But the witness which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 5:37And the Father that sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 5:38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not. 5:39Ye search the scriptures, /author:, … – Oh! What are they? Torah books, I guess? Must be, because there are at least another 100 years before the written New Testament!/
…because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; 5:40and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. 5:41I receive not glory from men. 5:42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves. 5:43I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 5:44How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not? 5:45Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, on whom ye have set your hope. 5:46For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. 5:47But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? " – another hysteria of an offended unbalanced and possibly mentally unhealthy Jew who believes in apocalyptic “prophecies” and imagines himself to be “the very” Jewish Messiah, the King of the Jews, whom the Jews were waiting for – nothing interesting for us. Digging in the trash, fishing for the insignificant words about the unity of Jesus with the Father just does not make sense – all this unintelligible preaching about this unity-identity we will encounter time and again, and may be not authentic Jesus sayings, but only gnostic reflections of the original authors of the gospels. And therefore, all this miserable semblance of a description of an event and a miracle should in the dump, except for the only phrase, in which it is still necessary to mentally separate the fairy-tale Jehovah imposed on Jesus as a father from the True Heavenly Father, which He tells us about.
“He that hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, has passed from death to life.”
John, chapter 6
Chapter six begins with the words “After this.” If we follow the logic of the narrative, then – this is after what was stated in the fifth chapter: another unexpected rush to Jerusalem, the healing of the paralyzed in the Sheep font and a long sermon to the Jews in the temple about the right of Jesus to perform healings on Saturdays, since He is the Son of the Jewish God. The Jews wanted to kill Him for this, but for some reason they did not do it – the Evangelist explains this by the fact that “His hour did not come”. Yes, told it to the Jews.
So, chapter six.
“After this, Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, in the vicinity of Tiberias” – that is, just like that, suddenly from
