JOHN CHAPTER 1
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1
In [the] beginning the Word was, and the
Word was with God, and the
Word was a God.
2
This one was in [the] beginning with God.
3
All [things] came to exist through him, and apart from him not even one [thing] came
to exist. What
has come to exist
4
by means of him was life, and the life was the
light of men.
5
And the light is shining in the darkness, but the
darkness has not overpowered it.
LCNC = 10 (2 threads).
LINC Beginning, Word, God, Life = 4. FDS2 was the light!!! It was the true
church at the time John wrote this!!! So Jesus is in fact the way, the light,
the truth and the life.
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6
There arose a man [anqropoV]
that was sent forth from beside God: his name was
John.
7
This [one] came for a witness, in order to testify about the
light, that
all [ones] might believe
through him.
8
He was not that light, but he was
meant to testify about that light.
9
The light, the true
which enlightens
every man was coming into the world.
10
He was in the world, and the world
came to exist through him, but the world did not know him.
11
He came into his own [things], but his
own [people] did not take him in.
12
However, as many as did receive
him, to them he gave authority to become children of
God, to the [ones]
believing in his name;
13
and neither from bloods [metonym
for human lives, mixing genes] nor from [the] will of flesh nor from
[the] will of male
[one] [androV], were they born, but from
God.
14
So the Word became flesh and
resided among us, and we viewed his glory, a
glory as [wV] of an
only-begotten [one] from beside a father [symbolic
due to comparison], full of
charity and truth
[plhrhV
is in the nominative or genitive, so either the son or the father is full of
charity and truth in the literal meaning! Of course the son is the image of the
father. We take it for the father here. It is very appropriate that the Greek is
ambiguous because both are full of charity and truth!]
15
John bore-witness about him, and,
he cried out, this was the one who said [it], saying: The one
coming behind me has advanced in front of me, because he existed before me.
16
Because from out of his fullness, we all received even
charity upon charity.
17
Because the Law was given through Moses, [but] the
charity and the truth came to be through Jesus
Christ.
18
No one has seen God at anytime;
the only-begotten God who is in the bosom
[human metaphor, God does not have a literal
bosom!] of the Father [his
only divine child] is the one
that has explained him.
LCNC = 33 (3 threads)
LINC Man, God, Name, John, Witness, World, Authority, Children of God, Bloods,
Will of Flesh, Will of Male, Word, Flesh, Glory, Charity,
Truth, Fullness, Law, Moses, Jesus, Christ = 21
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19
And this is the witness of John
when the Judaean [ones] sent forth priests and Levites from
Jerusalem to him to ask him:
Who are you?
20
And he confessed and did not deny,
but confessed: I am not the Christ.
21
And they asked him: What, then? Are
you Elijah? And he said: I am not. Are you The Prophet? And he answered: No!
22
Therefore they said to him: Who are
you? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about
yourself?
23
He said: I am a voice [metonym]
of someone
crying out in the desolate [place], 'Make the way of
[the] Lord straight,' just as [kaqwV]
Isaiah, the
prophet said.
24
Now those sent forth were from the Pharisees.
25
So they questioned him and said to
him: Why, then, do you baptize if you yourself are not the Christ or
Elijah or
The Prophet?
26
John answered them, saying: I
baptize in water. In the midst of you one is standing whom you do not know,
27
behind me [one] is coming, of whom I am not worthy to untie the
lace of [the] sandal of
him.
28
These [things] took place in Bethany
across [peran
no definite article] the Jordan, where John was
baptizing [as opposed to the Bethany on the
Jerusalem side, 15 stadia from that city].
LCNC = 18 (2 thread, the double designation is comparative speech)
LINC Witness of John, Priests, Levites, Jerusalem, Christ, Elijah, Prophet,
Answer, Voice, Pharisees, John, Water, Bethany, Jordan = 14
Not parallel to the other 3 Gospels.
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29
The next [day] [29Heshvan21 after 40 full days
in the wilderness.] he beheld Jesus coming
toward him, and he said: Look! the Lamb of
God,
the [one] taking away the sin of the world!
30
This is the one about whom I said,
Behind me there comes a male [anhr] who has advanced in front of me, because he existed
before me.
31
Even I did not know him, but the
reason why I came baptizing in water was that he might be made manifest to
Israel.
32
John also bore witness [therefore
this is plainly a part of the witness of John - see verse 19], saying: I
viewed the spirit coming down as [wV]
a dove [Jonah
means dove in Hebrew] out of heaven, and it remained upon
him.
33
Even I did not know him, but the
very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'Whoever it is upon whom
you see the spirit coming down and remaining, this is the one that baptizes in
spirit holy.'
34
And I have seen [it], and I have
borne-witness that this one is the Son of God.
LCNC = 12 (3 threads, the literal double designation has a symbolic noun)
LINC Jesus, Sin of World, Male, Water, Israel, John, Spirit, Heaven, Son of God =
9
Mark 1:9-11 and Matthew 3:13-17 and Luke 3:21,22 are parallel but John 1:29-34 is not.
Not parallel because it is not an account of the events of Jesus' baptism. It is an account of John's witness to those events. Recount the other 3!!!
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35 The next-day again [29Heshvan22]
[palin
does not join this to the above verses, just means the following day again] John was
standing with 2 out of his disciples,
36
and as he looked at Jesus walking [Jesus
and his sons here, rather than his wife] he said: Look! the Lamb of God!
37
And the 2 disciples heard him
speak, and they followed Jesus.
38
Then Jesus turned and, having viewed them following, he said to them: What are you looking for? They said to
him: Rabbi [Hebrew,
does not count], which
is translated, Teacher, where are you staying? [the
LWs are another teacher for these disciples after the JWs, just as Rabbi is
another word for Teacher. But the LWs teach in Greek, rather than Hebrew,
meaning we teach the New Testament to the JWs Old Testament, we reveal the
greater meanings of the bible, the JWs taught the literal meanings.]
39
He said to them: Come, and you will
see. Accordingly they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with
him that day [Literal, appears once
only]; the hour was about the 10th.
40
Andrew , the brother of
Simon, Peter
[The listener, Rock]
was one out of the 2 [the other un-named group
are the unsanctified JWs, who will become water in the LWs and then be turned
into wine at Cana], the [ones] having heard from beside John
and followed him.
41
First this one found the brother, the his-own [idion,
a pronoun type word prevents a triple designation], Simon, and said to him: We have found the
Messiah [Hebrew,
not a proper noun, i.e. not a name of a person or a place, so does not count]
which is translated, Christ.
42
He led him to Jesus. When Jesus
looked upon him he said: You are Simon, the
son of John; you will be called
Cephas [Hebrew name rather
than a title, so does count]
which is translated Peter [you are a
rock who will be susbstituted into Peter, the head of Jesus' wife, in the
future] [You are also a son of Peter who is the apostle to the reserves].
LCNC = 21 (3 threads)
LINC John, Disciples, Jesus, Teacher, Day (1), Hour, Andrew, (Brother of
Simon), Brother, Simon, Christ, Son of John, (Cephas), Peter =
12
We do not need to interpret Cephas, as well as Peter because they both mean the same thing literally!
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43
The next-day [29Heshvan23]
he desired to depart
for Galilee [Meaning he desired to go to
Cana on the next day, the 3rd day, so he called Philip on the same day he called
Andrew, the second day]. And Jesus found
Philip [2NC Lords from the Watchtower] and said to him: Follow me.
44
Now Philip was from Bethsaida [house
of the hunter], out of
the city of Andrew and
{the city} of Peter.
45
Philip found Nathanael and said to
him: We have found the [one] of whom Moses, in the Law, and the
Prophets wrote, Jesus,
a son of
the Joseph,
the [one] from Nazareth
[this is not Joseph, because the prophets refer to the Messiah as being a
Nazarene. This is not a triple designation because it mixes definite and
indefinite nouns and due a sense override in verse 46
which forces 'the one from Nazareth' to be in every thread! Neither is it a
double designation for just as a pronoun imbalance anywhere invalidates a
successive designation so does a sense override anywhere or a
definite/indefinite imbalance anywhere].
46
But Nathanael said to him: Can
anything good come out of Nazareth? [Nathanael
would not have said that unless Nazareth was mentioned in verse 45. So 'the one
from Nazareth' must be in every thread!] Philip said to him: Come and see.
47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward
him and said about him: Look! truly an Israelite, in whom there is no
deceit.
48
Nathanael said to him: How does it
come that you know me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before
Philip called you,
while you were under the fig-tree, I saw you.
49
Nathanael answered him: Rabbi [Hebrew
title,
does not count], you
are the Son of God, you are
King of Israel.
50
Jesus answered and said to him:
Because I told you I saw you underneath the fig-tree do you believe? You will
see greater [ones] of/than these.
51
He further said to him: Most truly
I say to you [ones], you will see heaven opened up and the
angels of God ascending
and descending to the Son of the man.
LCNC = 34 (2 threads)
LINC Galilee, Jesus, Philip, Bethsaida, City of Andrew, City of Peter, Nathanael,
Moses, Law, Prophets, Son of Joseph, Nazareth, Israelite, Deceit, Fig-tree, Son of God,
King of Israel, Heaven, Angels of God, Son of Man = 20.
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JOHN CHAPTER 2
1
Now on
the day
[Heshvan23, that he wished to depart to
Galilee verse 43], the 3rd
[one]
[2008Ab14. Double designation does make
sense due to verse 43],
a marriage
took place in
Cana of
Galilee, and the mother
of
Jesus
was there.
2
Jesus
and his
disciples
were also invited to the marriage
[the 7 day marriage feast].
3
And [upon] [it]
[the marriage feast]
having become lacking [gsm]
of
wine
[noun
as adverb]
the mother
of
Jesus said to him:
They have no wine.
4
But Jesus
said to her: What have I to do with you, woman?
My
hour
has not yet
come.
5
His mother
said to the
servants:
Whatever he tells you, do.
6
As it was, there were 6
water-jars
of
stone
sitting there according to the
purification of the
Jews, each
[ana]
having-place-for measures
2 or 3.
7
Jesus
said to them: Fill the
water-jars of/with
water [genitive secondary object/indirect
object - acts as a noun].
And they filled them until [the] top/upper
part
[anw
- is an adverb. We used to think that it is used as an adverb, but grammatically
was a noun, even so it would not count ? - see also katw.]
8
And he said to them: Draw some out now and take it to the
director-of-the-dinning
room.
So they took it.
9
When, now, the
director
of the dinning room tasted
the
water
that had been turned into wine
but did not know wherefrom it was although the
servants
knew, the [ones]
who had drawn out the
water,
the
director of the dinning room
called the
bridegroom.
10
and said to him: Every
man
puts out the fine
wine
first, and when they become intoxicated, the inferior
[one].
You have reserved the fine wine
until
now .
11
Jesus
performed this in
Cana
of
Galilee
[as the]
beginning
of his
signs, and he
manifested
his
glory; and his
disciples
put-faith in him (John 2).
Jesus (3), Water (4), Wine (3), Woman (1), Mother (3),
Director of dinning room (3), Cana (2).
CNC (4,3,2,2,2,3,3,1,7,1,5) = 33.
'Having become lacking of wine' is possessive, the noun 'wine' acting as an adverb.
INC: Day, Marriage, Cana of Galilee, (Mother of Jesus), Jesus, Disciples, Wine, Woman, Mother, Servants, Water-Jars of Stone, Purification of the Jews, measures, Water-jars, Director of the dinning room, Water, Bridegroom, beginning of signs, Glory = 18
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12 After this he and his mother and brothers and his disciples went down to Capernaum, but they did not stay there many days.
CNC = 5 (1 thread)
INC = 5
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13
Now the passover of the Judaean [ones] was
near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14
And he found in the temple [ieron]
those
selling cattle and sheep and
doves and the money-brokers
sitting [there].
15
So, after making a whip out of ropes,
he drove all [those] with the sheep and cattle out of the
temple [ieron], and
of the money-changers
he poured
out the coins and overturned the tables
[Greek likes to mess with word order for effect].
16
And he said to those selling the doves: Take these
[things] away from here! Stop making the house of my
Father a
house of merchandise!
17
His disciples remembered that
it is written: The zeal over/for [implied epi]
your house [non
possessive genitive]
will eat me up.
18
Therefore, answering, the Judaean [ones] said
to him: What sign have you to show us, since you are doing these
[things]?
19
In answer Jesus said to them: Break
down this [literal] residence [naoV]
[for
the spirit of Michael. God is a spirit after all and temple was his residence], and in 3
days I will raise it up.
20
Therefore the Judaean [ones] said: This residence [naoV]
was built in 46 [40 and 6] years, and will you raise it up in 3
days?
21
But he was talking about the residence [naoV]
of his body.
22
When, though, he was raised up from
the dead [ones], his disciples called-to-mind that he used to say this; and they
believed the Scripture and the word/saying that
Jesus said.
23
However, when he was in Jerusalem
at the passover, at its festival, many
put-faith in his name,
viewing his signs that he was performing.
24
But Jesus himself was not
entrusting himself to them because of his knowing them all
25
and because he had no need to
have anyone testify about man, for he himself knew what was in
man.
CNC = 42 (2 threads)
INC: Passover, Jesus, Jerusalem, Temple, Cattle, Sheep, Doves, Money-brokers,
Whip, Ropes, Coins of the Money-changers, Tables of the Money-changers, House of
Father, House of Merchandise, Disciples, Zeal, House, Sign, Residence, Residence
of Body, Years, Days, Scripture, Word, Festival, Name, Need, Man = 28
Day (2), Year (1), Man (2), Sheep (2), Cattle (2), Doves(2), Passover (2), Jerusalem (2).
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JOHN
CHAPTER 3
1
Now there was a man from the Pharisees,
Nicodemus was his name,
a ruler of the Jewish [ones].
2
This one came to him at [implied -
epi]
night
and said to him: Rabbi, we know that from God
you have come [as/like] a teacher, [nominative
but not the subject]
for
no one can perform these signs that you perform unless
God is with him.
3 Answering, Jesus said to him: Most truly
I say to you, Unless anyone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
God.
4
Nicodemus said to him: How can a
man be born being an old-man? He cannot enter into the
womb of his mother a
second [time] and be born, can he?
5
Jesus answered: Most truly I say to
you, Unless anyone is born out of water and spirit, he cannot enter into the
kingdom of God.
6
What has been born from the flesh
is flesh, and what has been born from the spirit is
spirit.
7
Do not marvel because I told you,
you [ones] must be born again.
8
The wind/spirit blows where it wants to,
and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where
it is going. Like-this [outwV]
is everyone that has been born out of the spirit.
9 Answering Nicodemus said to him:
How can these [things] come about?
10 Answering Jesus said to him: Are
you a teacher of Israel and yet do not know these
[things]?
[Binary
Question]
11
Most truly I say to you, What we
know we speak and what we have seen we testify to, but you do not
receive the witness we give.
12
If I have told you earthly [things]
and yet you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly
[things]?
13
Moreover, no [one] has ascended into
heaven but he that descended from heaven, the
Son of man.
14
And just as [kaqwV]
Moses lifted up the
serpent in the desolate [place], so/thus [outwV]
the Son of man must be lifted up,
15
that everyone believing in him may
have everlasting life [33].
16
For
like this/in this way [outwV]
God loved the world
[wste]
so that he gave the
Son,
the only-begotten [one],
in order that everyone believing in
him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life [this
is how God loved us, it is not a comparison].
17
For God sent forth the Son into the
world, not in order that he should judge the world, but
in order that the world should be saved through
him.
18
He that believes in him is
not to be judged. He that does not believe has been judged already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten
Son of God.
19
Now this is the judgment,
that the light has come into the world but
men have loved the darkness rather
than the light, for their works were wicked.
20
For he that practices vile [things]
hates the light and does not come to the
light, in order that his works may not
be reproved.
21
But the one working the truth comes
to the light, in order that it
should be made manifest that his works were carried
out with God [18].
CNC = 51 (3 threads)
INC: Man, Pharisees, Nicodemus, Name, Ruler, Night, God, Signs,
Jesus, Kingdom of God, Old-man, Womb of Mother, Water, Spirit, Flesh, Teacher of
Israel, Witness, Heaven, (Son of Man), Life, World, Son, (Name of Son of God),
Judgement, Works, Truth = 24.
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22 After these [things] Jesus and his disciples went into the Judaean [a noun used as an adejctive] land/earth, and there he spent-time with them and did baptizing.
23 But
John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because much water was there, and [ones] kept coming and being baptized;CNC = 36 (2 threads)
INC Jesus, Disciples, Earth, John, Aenon, Salim, Water, Prison, Dispute, (Disciples of John),
Purification, Jordan, Man, Heaven, Christ, Joy, Witness, God,
Sayings of God, Spirit, Hand, Father, Son, life, Wrath of God = 24
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JOHN
CHAPTER 4
1
When [wV],
therefore, the
Lord
became aware
that the Pharisees had heard
[new
focus]
that
Jesus was making and baptizing more
disciples
than John --
2
although, indeed, Jesus himself did
no baptizing but his disciples did --
3
he left Judea and departed again
for Galilee.
Total CNC = 9
INC Lord, Pharisees, Jesus, Disciples, John, Judea, Galilee = 7
4
But it was necessary for him to go
through
Samaria.
5
Therefore he came to a city of
Samaria called
Sychar near the
tract
[cwrion]
that Jacob gave to
Joseph his
son.
6
Indeed, the fountain
of Jacob
was
there. Now Jesus, tired out from the
journey, was sitting
like-that [outwV]
at the fountain. The
hour was about
[wV]
the 6th.
7
A woman
out of Samaria came to draw
water.
Jesus said to her: Give me
[something] to drink.
8
For his disciples had gone off into
the city to buy
foodstuffs.
9
Therefore the
woman,
the
Samaritanette,
said
to him: How is it that you, despite being a Jewish [one], ask me for [something]
to drink, when I am
a woman,
a Samaritanette? For
Jewish [ones] do not interact with Samaritans.
10
Answering Jesus said to her: If you
had known the free-gift of
God and who
is the [one] saying to you, 'Give to me to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living
water.
11
She said to him: Lord, you have not
even a bucket, and the
well is deep. From
where
therefore, do you have the
water, the living
[variety]
[she is thinking about physical water here]?
[CNC = 30]
12
You are not greater of our father,
Jacob, who gave us the
well and who himself
drank out of it together with his sons
and his cattle, are you?
[binary
question]
13 Answering Jesus said to her:
Everyone drinking from this water will get thirsty again.
14
Whoever drinks from the water
which
I will give him will never get thirsty into the age, but the
water
which I will give
him will become in him a fountain of
water bubbling up
into indefinitely lasting/everlasting life?.
15
The woman said to him:
Lord, give me
this water,
[she
thinks it is everlasting physical water which removes her need to go to the
well]
that I may neither thirst nor keep coming over here to
draw [it].
16
He said to her: Go, call your husband
[anhr]
and come here.
17 Answering the woman said: I do not
have a husband.
Jesus said to her: You said well, 'A
husband I do not have.'
18
For you have had 5 husbands, and
the [one] you now have is not your husband
[Jesus picked Za za Gabor, Liza Minelli, to be the first
human to know he was the Christ, not because of her sin, which was great, but
because of her faith, which he, in his mercy, considered greater]. This you have said truthfully.
19
The woman said to him:
Lord, I
perceive you are a prophet.
20
Our fathers worshiped in this
mountain; but you
say that in Jerusalem is the
place where
it is necessary
to worship.
21
Jesus said to her: Believe me,
woman,
The hour is coming when neither in this
mountain nor in
Jerusalem will you
worship the Father.
[CNC = 25]
22
you worship what you do not know;
we worship what we know, because salvation
is out of the Jewish [ones].
23
Nevertheless, the hour is coming,
and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the
Father
in spirit and
truth, for, indeed, the
Father is
seeking such ones to worship him.
24
God is a Spirit, and those
worshiping him must worship in spirit and
truth.
25
The woman said to him: I
have seen [oida]
that
Messiah [Hebrew
noun]
is coming, the [one] called Christ. Whenever that one arrives, he will
annouce all things to us.
26
Jesus said to her: I,
the[one] speaking to you am he!
27
And at this his disciples
arrived, and they were wondering because he was speaking with a woman. Of-course, no one said: What are you looking for? or, Why do you talk with her?
28
The woman, therefore, left her
water-jar and went off into the
city and told the
men [anqrwpoV]:
29
Come here, see a man that told me
all the [things] which I did. This is not perhaps the Christ, is it?
[binary
question]
30
They went out of the city and began
coming to him.
31
In the meanwhile the disciples were urging
him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
32
But he said to them: I have food to
eat of which you have not known.
33
Therefore the disciples began
saying to one another: No one has brought him anything to eat, has he?
34
Jesus said to them: My
food is for
me to do the will of
the [one] having sent me and to finish his work.
35
Do you not say that it is a four-month
[period] [tetramhnoV
is an adejctive! It stands literally for 120
days/4 months from 30Sivan15 to 30Tishri15 and symbolically for 120 days
2007Shebat26 to 2008Sivan26.]
and the harvest comes?
[this being a commonly said thing around Sivan15? We do not say it physically,
we had no idea] Look! I say to you: Lift up your
eyes and view
the fields
[cwraV], that they are white for
[the] harvest.
Already 36
the [one] reaping/harvesting is receiving wages and
gathering fruit for
indefinitely lasting/everlasting life, so that the
[one] sowing [Literal:
Levites, Word: Christians]
and the [one] reaping may
rejoice together.
37
Therefore in this [regard], the word
is true, One is the one sowing and another the [one]
reaping.
38
I dispatched you to reap what you
have not laboured upon. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour.
[CNC = 30]
39
But [out] of that
city,
many out of the
Samaritans
put-faith in him
through the
word
of the
woman
testifying that: He told me all the
[things] which I did!
40
Therefore when the
Samaritans
came
to him, they began asking him to stay with them; and he stayed there 2
days.
41
And many more believed through his
word,
42
and they were saying to the
woman:
We no longer believe through your
speech; for we have heard for
ourselves and we have seen [oidamen]
that this [one] is truly the
saviour
of the
world.
43
After the 2
days
he left there for
Galilee.
CNC = 9 + 30 + 25 + 32 = 96 (3 threads)
INC Samaria, (City of Samaria), Sychar, Tract, Jacob, Joseph, Son, (Fountain of
Jacob), Jesus, Journey, Fountain, Hour, Woman, Water, Disciples, City,
Foodstuffs, Samaritanette, Samaritans, Free-gift of God, Lord, Bucket, Well,
Age, Husband, Prophet, Fathers, Mountain, Jerusalem, Place, Salvation,
Worshipers, Spirit, Truth, God, Christ, Water-Jar, Men, Will, Work, Harvest, Word, Labour, (Word of Woman), Days, Speech, Saviour of
World, Galilee, Pharisees, John, Judea = 48
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44 Jesus himself, however, bore witness that in his own fatherland a prophet has no honour.
45
When, therefore, he arrived in
Galilee, the
Galilean [ones] received him, because they had seen all the [things] he
did in Jerusalem at the
festival, for they also had gone to the
festival.
46
Accordingly he came again to Cana
of Galilee, where he had turned the
water into
wine. Now there was a certain
ruling [one] whose son was sick in
Capernaum.
47
When this [one] heard that Jesus had
come out of Judea into
Galilee, he went off to him and began asking him to come
down and heal his son, for he was
dying.
48
However, Jesus said to him: Unless
you [people] see signs and
wonders, you will by no means believe.
49
The ruling [one] said to
him: Lord, come down before my
young-child
dies [24].
50
Jesus said to him: Go
forth;
your son lives. The
man believed the
word that
Jesus spoke to him and
he went off
51
But already while he was going down his slaves met him to say that his
boy was living.
52
Therefore he began to inquire of
them the hour in which he
recovered. Accordingly they said to him:
Yesterday [ecqeV adverb]
at the
hour, the 7th
[not a double designation due to
senselessness], the fever left him.
53
Therefore the father knew it was in
the very hour that
Jesus said to him: Your
son lives. And he and his whole
household believed.
54
Again this was the second sign
Jesus performed when he came out of
Judea into
Galilee.
[19]
CNC 48 (2 threads)
INC = Galilee, Jerusalem, festival, Cana, Water, Wine, Son, Capernaum, Jesus, Judea, Signs, Wonders, Lord, Young-child, Man, Word, Slaves, Boy, Hour, Fever, Father, Household = 22
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1 After these [things] there was a festival of the Jewish [ones], and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in
Jerusalem at [epi with dative] the [gate] for-sheep [probatikoV adjective] a pool designated in-Hebrew Bethzatha [Meaning House of Olives. A Hebrew noun but not a proper noun, not a name of a person or town, but the name of a thing. So it does not count], with 5 colonnades.4 Because an angel [actually a demon] according to season would come down into the pool and disturb the water. The first [one] therefore to step in after disturbance of the water would become cured from whatever sickness [noshma] he was afflicted with. [Vatican B does not have this verse but the Alexandrinus early Latin versions and the Syriac Peshitta have it] [This is not the MO of God. You must have faith to be cured yes. But the demons could cure too using the level playing field card. But to have cripples waiting around every day and jumping in the pool whenever a leaf fell into it, may be very funny to demons, but not the love of God]. [The count does work - we think, so perhaps this demonic game is canonically recorded since it tell us how saints are chosen??Its first come first serve into each new water baptism. So the greater meaning is there!!!]
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