| Using
Greek for Sunday Text Preparations
Exegetical Considerations
John
3:14-21
4TH
Sunday of Lent/ March 30, 2003
1.
What is the literary context of this text?
a.
How does that context impact a reading of this text
(especially 3:1-13)?
2.
How does dei function in 3:14?
a.
How does that recall its use in 3:7?
3.
What is John’s theological understanding of Jesus’ coming
down and being lifted up?
a.
How does 3:13 echo Deut. 30:12; Prov. 30:4?
b.
How does 3:14 echo Numbers 21?
c.
How does anōthen birth by water and
Spirit related to Jesus’ coming down and being lifted up?
4.
What is John’s understanding of eternal life in general and
in this text?
5.
What is John’s understanding of world in general and in his
text?
6.
What do the gar clauses of 3:16,17 elucidate?
7.
How do the claims of 3:16-17 relate directly back to the
claims of about anōthen birth and about Jesus’
coming down and being lifted up?
8.
What is John’s theology of judgment as evidenced in this
text?
a.
What is the significance of the tense of kekritai
in v. 18?
9.
How are light and darkness theological locations in John?
a.
How is that evidenced in this text?
b.
What is John claiming about humanity’s location in either of
these?
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