| Using
Greek for Sunday Text Preparations
Exegetical
Considerations
John 16:12-16
The Holy Trinity/ June 6, 2004
1. What is the literary context of this text?
a. How does that literary context impact a reading of this text?
2. Why cannot the disciples bear hearing that which Jesus has
to say to them?
a. How does the Spirit function to rectify that circumstance?
3. What is the use of the subjunctive elthe in v. 13?
4. How does v. 13 recall 14:6?
a. What does this say about the relationship between Jesus and
the Spirit?
5. What is the relationship between the two uses of hosa in
vv. 13,15?
6. How does the use of doxasei in v. 14 relate to its uses in
12:28; 13:31-32; 14:13; 17:1,4-5,10?
a. What does this say about the relationship between Jesus and
the Spirit?
7. What functions of the Spirit are disclosed in this text?
a. What does this say about the relationship between Jesus and
the Spirit as well as the relationship between God and Jesus?
8. How does this text become part of the fertile seedbed for
subsequent Trinitarian
theology in the church?
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