Mystery: Was John a Samaritan
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- See also: Mystery:Unsolved_Gospel_Mysteries
John the Apostle was most likely a Samaritan, in light of:
- John's description of Jesus as possibly coming from the Samaritans, with none of the genealogy asserted elsewhere;
- John's sympathy with Samaritans, including how Jesus first disclosed his divinity to a Samaritan woman at a well;
- John's repeated references -- 10 times more than any other Gospel -- to "the Jews," meaning the Jewish people in and around Jerusalem, was how Samaritans would have referred to their rivals;
- the Gospel of John contains only 27 quotations and allusions to books of the Old Testament, far less than "Matthew (124), Mark (70), and Luke (109),"[1] and the Samaritans recognized only the Pentateuch in the Old Testament;
- among the few references by the Gospel of John to the Old Testament, many are Editorial Comments in the Gospel of John which may have been added later;
- the universality of the Gospel of John, as in John 3:16 ;
- his harsh language against Jewish leaders;
- John had a rivalry with Peter, suggesting they may have had different ethnicities; and
- the name "John" is Aramaic rather than Hebrew.[2]
References
- ↑ https://rsc.byu.edu/prophets-prophecies-old-testament/use-old-testament-new-testament-gospels
- ↑ "Yochanan" is the Aramaic origin of John's name.
