John 20

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This article is about the chapter of the Bible. For Pope John 20, see
Pope John XX
.
John 20
← 
Papyrus 5, written about AD 250.
BookGospel of John
CategoryGospel
Christian Bible partNew Testament
Order in the Christian part4

John 20 is the twentieth chapter of the

resurrection. It relates how Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus and found it empty. Jesus appears to her and speaks of his resurrection and dispatches Mary to tell the news to the disciples. Jesus then appears to his disciples. The events related in John 20 are described somewhat differently in Matthew 28, Mark 16, and Luke 24
.

The chapter is seemingly the conclusion to the Gospel of John, but it is followed by an apparently "supplementary" chapter, John 21.[1] Some biblical scholars to suggest that John 20 was the original conclusion of the Gospel, and John 21 was a later addition, but there is no conclusive manuscript evidence for this theory.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 31 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

Analysis

Tradition sites of
Garden Tomb; right: inside of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

The chapter may be divided into three distinct sections. Verses 1-18 describe events at Jesus'

Beloved Disciple and Christ's appearance to Mary. For the editors of the New American Bible Revised Edition, this chapter "fulfills the basic need for testimony to the resurrection", which it does via "a series of stories".[6]

There are several inconsistencies both within the chapter and between it and the resurrection account in the other gospels.

synoptic gospels
, suggesting that this is merely the synoptics rewritten to make it seem like it was an eyewitness account. The portion on Mary Magdalene, by contrast, had to have been based on sources that only John had access to.

Theologian

dénouement and conclusion. Some scholars argue that John 21 seems out of place and that John 20 was the original final chapter of the work.[7][8] However, ancient manuscripts that contain the end of John 20 also contain text from John 21, so there is no conclusive manuscript evidence for this theory.[9] See John 21
for a more extensive discussion.

Verses

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gospel of John - Chapter 20.
  1. ^ Meyer, H. A. W. (1890), Meyer's NT Commentary on John 20, translated from the German sixth edition, accessed 16 June 2019
  2. ^ Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, pp. 74-78.
  3. ^ Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Grec 9 (2012). "Codex Ephræmi Syri rescriptus". Folio 85r.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ WWU, Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung (INTF) /Eng. "Institute for New Testament Textual Research". "New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room - Workspace Doc ID 20004". Folio 1350/85r.
  5. ^ For example the Amplified Bible utilises this structure: John 20:1–31
  6. ^ Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Footnote a to John 20 in the New American Bible Revised Edition, accessed 15 February 2024
  7. ^ Paul Minear, writing in 1983, wrote "The jury of modern NT scholars has agreed with unparalleled unanimity on one issue in Johannine research: chapter 21 is not an integral part of the original gospel but was composed separately and probably by a redactor." Journal of Biblical Literature 102, 85-98.
  8. ^ Ehrman, Bart (13 February 2012). "Debate "Is the Original New Testament Lost?"". The Ehrman Project, YouTube: from around 23:40. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  9. ISBN 9781532610219
    .

Further reading

  • Barrett, C.K. The Gospel According to John, 2nd Edition. London:SPCK, 1978.
  • Brown, Raymond E. "The Gospel According to John: XIII-XXI" The Anchor Bible Series Volume 29A New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970.
  • Bruce, F.F.
    The Gospel According to John. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1983.
  • Leonard, W. "St. John." A Catholic Commentary on the Bible. D.B. Orchard ed. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1953.
  • Rudolf Schnackenberg. The Gospel According to St. John: Volume III. Crossroad, 1990.
  • Westcott, B.F The Gospel of St. John. London: John Murray, 1889.

External links

Preceded by
John 19 		Chapters of the Bible
Gospel of John 		Succeeded by
John 21
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_20&oldid=1207599800"