John's Writing Style Of The Gospel Of John

In the world today, everybody knows who Jesus Christ is. Everyone knows the Bible. Of the four gospels, Gospel of John addresses Jesus’ Judean Ministry of truth and light. It differs from and complements the Synoptic Gospels by writing style, especially in John 6: 26-59. In this passage, Jesus addresses the crowd and proclaims a radical thought, originating from the Old Testament. Jesus states that He is the new manna from heaven above; instituting what Christians call the Eucharist. With the style of John’s writing, origins from the Old Testament, and importance of the Eucharist in prayer, we can find that Christ brings an important teaching to all who may follow him. The style of John’s writing is crucial to Jesus’ message of light and salvation …show more content…
The reader or the audience is aware of the message while reading the text. In the Gospels, the Evangelist, writers of the gospels, compose Jesus’ life and ministry on Earth. Gospel means in Greek “good news”. The Good news is summarized as Jesus brings the message of light and truth to the world with his time on Earth. The first three gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke combine into the Synoptic Gospels. The fourth gospel, John, writes on the mission and overall message of the kingdom of God. The New Jerome Biblical Commentary addresses John’s writing on the known information of the Synoptic evangelists. “The Fourth Gospel apparently presumes that much of the story about Jesus . . . it’s already familiar to readers . . .The readers must also be familiar with John the Baptist” (Perkins 949). The Anchor Bible Dictionary provides support with John’s Gospel being the “Purpose of nurturing the faith” (Kysar 917), already implying that to receive the grace of the message, faith is to be present. This is a key component to the plot of the Gospel of John. Faith must be present in order to be fulfilled by the light and truth as a reward Christ gives us. John writes on the light and truth of the message more than his counterparts as described through the New Jerome Biblical Commentary. “The plot moves toward the glorification of Jesus, the narrative moves through the cycle of acceptance and …show more content…
With the mass being divided into two parts: the readings and the eucharistic prayer. This shows importance of the Eucharist. The translation of Eucharist in Greek means eucharistia or thanksgiving. In the John 6:26 passage, the man asks to “ give us the bread”(John 6:26) Timothy O’Malley’s scholarly article Catholic Ecology and Eucharist: A Practice Approach provides clarity into the Christian worship of the Eucharist. “Eucharistie practice, when thoughtfully reflected upon, is a formation into the divine ecology of the Triune God”(O’Malley 71). Divine ecology means that the divine biological branch of God is shown through the Trinity in the Eucharist. O’Malley is stating that in practicing of worship for the eucharist, we should reflect upon the heavenly, divine nature of its intention. John The Evangelist writes in a particular gospel passage that the crowd wants the bread at that moment and always. “Sir . . . always give us this bread”(John 6:34). O’Malley’s perspective on what the human body spiritually responds with the Eucharist by the definition of thanksgiving. “For the human body itself becomes a site for this praise: bowing, genuflecting, and tasting the gifts of God”(O’Malley 72). With O 'Malley 's interpretation of thanksgiving for the bread of manna, we can figure that when Jesus addresses the crowd in John 6:26, he presents a choice that will become a