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Greek for Sunday Text Preparations
Exegetical Considerations
Reformation Sunday/John 8:31-36
October 27, 2002
1.
What is the narrative context of this passage?
a.
How does that narrative context impact the reading of these
verses?
2.
What is the theological concept of the term hoi
Ioudaioi in John?
a.
How is that not a historical term but a theologically
pejorative term in John’s story and polemic?
3.
How is freedom understood in John’s gospel?
a.
How is the author applying that understanding to/in this
text?
4.
What is the Son’s mission in John’s gospel?
a.
How is the author applying that to an understanding of this
text?
5.
In John, how is the truth a person not a doctrine?
a.
How is the author applying that to an understanding of this
text?
6.
How might the anti-Judaic polemic undergirding this text
impact a 21st reading of this text?
a.
How might you preach on the gospel proclamation undergirding
this text without passing on its anti-Judaic polemic?
7.
How might this text which says nothing about justification by
grace through faith relate to a Reformation Sunday message of
justification by grace through faith?
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