| Using
Greek for Sunday Text Preparations
Exegetical Considerations
John
2:13-22
3rd
Sunday in Lent/ March 23, 2003
1.
What strands of tradition stand behind this story?
2.
What is the literary context of this passage?
a.
How does 2:18 relate back to 2:11?
3.
How does the flow of the text break into two parts with
parallel closings?
4.
What was the position of the Temple theologically,
economically, and politically in Jesus’ time?
5.
Why would Jesus have found animals being sold in the Temple?
a.
What do his actions regarding these animals thus signify?
6.
Why would Jesus have found money-changers in the Temple?
a.
What do his actions regarding the money-changers signify?
7.
What Scripture
a.
is echoed in 2:16?
b.
is being used in 2:17?
8.
How does 2:18 set up 4:48; 6:30; 9:16; 11:47?
9.
How is egeirō
a double entendre in this
text?
10.
How do vv. 19-22 provide a new framework for interpreting
Jesus’ mission in John’s story?
11.
What are hermeneutical implications of this text for John’s
story?
a.
How does that relate to the understanding that Jesus replaces
the temple’s function/role in the life of God’s people?
b.
How does that anticipate Jesus’ remarks to the Samaritan
woman in 4:21-24?
12.
What are burning, controversial issues regarding worship in
our congregations?
a.
What does this text say about the central focus and reality
of worship?
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