Re: The so-called Johannine thunderbolt.
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 7:01 am
Perhaps Mark 9:37 has also a Johannine flavourBen C. Smith wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:22 pm On page 9 of his article, "Johannine Thunderbolt or Synoptic Seed," Mark Goodacre argues, in the course of trying to demonstrate that Matthew 11.25-27 = Luke 10.21-22 (which has been called "a Johannine thunderbolt from a clear synoptic sky") is actually the inspiration for Johannine christology and not a tapping into it by Matthew, that Matthew 11.27b follows the same pattern or rhythm as other sayings in the gospel of Matthew:
“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.
But in the same way in the works of Edgar Allan Poe is something of Jules Verne and something of Arthur Conan Doyle and something of B. Traven and ...