This thread is here because Judaism in the 1st century was pretty literalistic in ordinary talk, in ethics and in prophecy. Here are the 1st 10 times John mentions it.
CRASS LITERALISM IN PHARISEE THEOLOGY IN JOHN
R. Brinsmead was the first teacher I know who addressed the fact that there are several times when Jesus caught and corrected a very strict, literal mindset in Pharisee Judaism, in Johns Gospel. It is found in ethics, interpretation and eschatology.
Here are 10 examples.
2:20: It has taken us 46 years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?
3:4: How can a man be born when he is old? Hmmm.
4:11: Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? (Samaritan Judaism)
4:33: Could someone have brought him food? (disciples)
5:45: Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. (an indirect example)
6:26, 30: to see miracles (the crowd meant witness them; Jesus meant understand); What miraculous sign will you give? Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert Jesus: (33) The bread of God is he who comes down from heaven 41: The Jews (Pharisee) grumbled about him because
6:57: Here begins the literalism about flesh: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? several times
7:15: Where did this man get such learning without having studied? Sort of a institutionalization of literalism.
7:24: Stop judging by mere appearances and make a right judgement speaks of their literalism in ethics.
7:39: Will he go live among the Greeks?
--Inter
CRASS LITERALISM IN PHARISEE THEOLOGY IN JOHN
R. Brinsmead was the first teacher I know who addressed the fact that there are several times when Jesus caught and corrected a very strict, literal mindset in Pharisee Judaism, in Johns Gospel. It is found in ethics, interpretation and eschatology.
Here are 10 examples.
2:20: It has taken us 46 years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?
3:4: How can a man be born when he is old? Hmmm.
4:11: Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? (Samaritan Judaism)
4:33: Could someone have brought him food? (disciples)
5:45: Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. (an indirect example)
6:26, 30: to see miracles (the crowd meant witness them; Jesus meant understand); What miraculous sign will you give? Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert Jesus: (33) The bread of God is he who comes down from heaven 41: The Jews (Pharisee) grumbled about him because
6:57: Here begins the literalism about flesh: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? several times
7:15: Where did this man get such learning without having studied? Sort of a institutionalization of literalism.
7:24: Stop judging by mere appearances and make a right judgement speaks of their literalism in ethics.
7:39: Will he go live among the Greeks?
--Inter