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"The Fourth Evangelist's Purpose in Recording Jesus' Signs was to Reveal the Person and Work of Jesus" Explain and Evaluate this Claim with Reference to Evidence from John's Gospel.
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"The Fourth Evangelist's Purpose in Recording Jesus' Signs was to Reveal the Person and Work of Jesus." Explain and Evaluate this Claim with Reference to Evidence from John's Gospel One of the key functions of the signs in John's Gospel is to reveal the person and work of Jesus. There is a strong theme of Replacement Theology and Hunter points out that "Exodus motifs abound" in the signs. For Example in the Healing at the Pool, the length of time the paralytic had been ill is 38 years, the same length of time the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness in the Old Testament. Jesus is the new Moses, bringing the world out of spiritual blindness. This is linked to the Prologue, which states "For the law came through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ". Jesus is superseding the law, replacing it with the love and truth of Christianity. Jesus...
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