Alleged seams in John part 2: "Into the Judean land"

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The goal: To take common sense about the Bible and make it rigorous. I'm an analytic philosopher, specializing in theory of knowledge. I've published widely in both classical and formal epistemology. On this channel I'm applying my work in the theory of knowledge to the books of the Bible, especially the Gospels, and to apologetics, the defense of Christianity. My aim is to bring a combination of scholarly rigor and common sense to these topics, providing the skeptic with well-considered reasons to accept Christianity and the believer with well-argued ways to defend it.

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Alleged seams in John part 2: "Into the Judean land"

The Lydia McGrew Podcast

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1 year ago

Alleged seams in John part 2: "Into the Judean land"

Today I'm talking about the alleged "seam" in John 3:22, which says that after these things, Jesus and his disciples came/went "into the Judean land." Does this mean that they weren't in Judea before? Is this an internal contradiction, because Jesus was already in Judea, in Jerusalem, in the preceding events? And does it mean that an editor was trying awkwardly to fit stories together in the Gospel? I answer "no" to all these questions. Here are various translations of the verse: https://biblehub.com/john/3-22.htm Here is the Greek text analysis page: https://biblehub.com/text/john/3-22.htm Here is my video on four ways of narrating time. (But note: In this case I don't even think the narration is achronological.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4TzGiFCeLE&t=8s Thumbnail by Foto: Jonn Leffmann, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=122817403