I. Para empezar
A. Resumen de la sesión
B. Ejercicios de repaso
C. Vocabulario clave
D. Lectura
Usemos el texto griego para leer Jn 11:45–12:19.
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E. Memorizando el texto griego
II. CONTENIDO
III. Práctica de exégesis:
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Caiaphas argues that one man should die for the people using sacrificial language, though he certainly did not intend this in a Christian sense—he probably meant that Jesus was to be “devoted” to death, sacrificed as a scapegoat, in order to spare the nation and its leaders.[1] Yet Johannine irony reaches its apogee here[1], as readers living after the cross could not help but see more[1] in his words.
The Evangelist operates at two levels, utilizing irony to make readers see that Caiaphas prophesied better than he thought[1]. Caiaphas unwittingly argues for the necessity of Jesus’ provision of substitutionary atonement[2], and Caiaphas predicted that Jesus would be a sort of scapegoat, sacrificed on behalf of the Jewish people—and indeed Jesus would die “for the people” as a substitutionary, atoning sacrifice, taking away the sins of the world as the “Lamb of God.”[2]
The dramatic irony intensifies through multiple layers. Caiaphas justifies the Sanhedrin’s decision to crucify Jesus as necessary to avert Roman destruction of the temple and nation, yet Caiaphas’s strategy turned out to be a miscalculation of colossal proportions—the temple was destroyed by the Romans all the same.[2] If John wrote after AD 70, this is the ultimate instance of Johannine irony, since the Temple had indeed been utterly destroyed and Jerusalem sacked by the Romans—and that despite crucifying Jesus, the Sanhedrin heaped condemnation upon their own heads by putting the Messiah and the Son of God to death.[2]
Sources cited: D. A. Carson, The Gospel according to John, PNTC (1991), pp. 408–409; Andreas J. Köstenberger, A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters (2009), pp. 284–285, 374. The search was constrained to these two authors. Would you like me to search your entire library instead?
[1] D. A. Carson, The Gospel according to John, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Leicester, England; Grand Rapids, MI: Inter-Varsity Press; W.B. Eerdmans, 1991), 56–57, 421–422. [2] Andreas J. Köstenberger, A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters: The Word, the Christ, the Son of God, Biblical Theology of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 230, 432, 452.
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