Student Name Fayez Alfayez
Intertextual Connection between Johannine Epistle and the Gospel of John
Introduction
The gospel of john and the Johannie espistle are both have written by the same author, even though there are different opinion about who wrote gospel of john and the Johannie espistle there are various facts and many evidence shows and approve they both have written by same author which is John and we do not forget that John is the disciple of Jesus.
With that assumption, it is clear that there are so many relationships that can approve between the gospel of john and the Johannie espistle, as we know the gospel have written before the epistle, if we notice there are many things show the similarity between both texts, such as speech format, vocabulary, wisdom, knowledge, and the meaning, all …show more content…
An allusion is an intentional and conscious trial to point the reader towards relating with a previous text. There is no evidence of direct quotation in the letters of john that link to the gospel of John.
This paper would show the relationship between the texts in 1 (john1 5:7). This text has an intertextual link to several texts in the gospel of John.
In 1 john1: 5-7.(NIV) “ Light and darkness, Sin and forgiveness “
“(5) This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light : in him there is no darkness at all. (6) if we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness. we lie and do not live out the truth.(7) but if we walk in the light ,as he is in the light, we have fellowship, with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his son, purifies us from all sin “.
Here Jesus said and described himself as the light of the world, if we notice also in the epistle of john using Echo and echo is describes what Jesus said about himself when he said he is the
Intertextual Connection between Johannine Epistle and the Gospel of John
Introduction
The gospel of john and the Johannie espistle are both have written by the same author, even though there are different opinion about who wrote gospel of john and the Johannie espistle there are various facts and many evidence shows and approve they both have written by same author which is John and we do not forget that John is the disciple of Jesus.
With that assumption, it is clear that there are so many relationships that can approve between the gospel of john and the Johannie espistle, as we know the gospel have written before the epistle, if we notice there are many things show the similarity between both texts, such as speech format, vocabulary, wisdom, knowledge, and the meaning, all …show more content…
An allusion is an intentional and conscious trial to point the reader towards relating with a previous text. There is no evidence of direct quotation in the letters of john that link to the gospel of John.
This paper would show the relationship between the texts in 1 (john1 5:7). This text has an intertextual link to several texts in the gospel of John.
In 1 john1: 5-7.(NIV) “ Light and darkness, Sin and forgiveness “
“(5) This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light : in him there is no darkness at all. (6) if we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness. we lie and do not live out the truth.(7) but if we walk in the light ,as he is in the light, we have fellowship, with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his son, purifies us from all sin “.
Here Jesus said and described himself as the light of the world, if we notice also in the epistle of john using Echo and echo is describes what Jesus said about himself when he said he is the