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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (9091)	3/19/2001 2:37:54 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

"The Gospel of John has a distinctive way of speaking of Jesus's opponents. Seventy-nine times the expression 'the Jews' appears in this Gospel, compared with five times each in Matthew and Luke, and six times in Mark. Its author feels no identification with the Jewish people, and views them from a distance from which their internal distinctions and differences are no long significant. He sees them in a uniformely hostile light." Thats one interpretation. Another might be that John is just referring to situations where Jesus had an argument with or made statements about a group of Jews, and he uses the phrase "the Jews" to refer to those groups. Does John ever talk about arguments with other groups, and call them "the Romans", or whatever? If so it would only be a few times because most of Jesus time was spent among the Jews. I hope you don't think I'm anti-semetic for using that term... Tim