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allegories in S. John, 210, 286

Alogi, rejection of the Fourth Gospel by
the, 20, 21

analysis of the Gospel, 55-58
Andrew, character of, 79, 140, 251
angels, 82

Annas, his office and influence, 322;
examination of Jesus by him peculiar
to S. John, 323.

Apocalypse, relation of the Fourth Gospel
to, 30

Apocryphal Gospels, miracles of the
Child Jesus in, 86

Apostles' defects stated without reserve,
91, 114, 115, 250, 263, 276, 357
Apostolic Fathers, assumed silence of, as
to the Fourth Gospel, 18, 19
appearances after the resurrection, 354,367
Arianism condemned, 127, 222
Arimathea, Joseph of, coincidence be-
tween S. John and S. Mark as to his
character and connexion with Nico-
demus, 352

attempts to arrest Jesus, 169, 173, 241,
248, 319

ascension, implied but not narrated by
S. John, 156, 359, 97
Augustine quoted, 125, 146
authenticity, of the Gospel, by whom dis-
puted, 18, 21; external evidence for,
20, 21; internal evidence for, 22-30,
50; internal evidence against, 30-32,
47-49; of the Appendix, 367, 377
baptism, Christian, referred to in the dis-

course with Nicodemus, 25; of Jesus,
100, 105; of John, 100

Baptist, his connexion with the Evan-
gelist, 12, 77; argument from the
Evanglist's calling him simply 'John,'
29, 64; crisis in his ministry, 71; he is
a voice crying in the wilderness, 73

Barabbas, 335

Barnabas, epistle of, its evidence to the
Fourth Gospel, 19

Bartholomew, reasons for identifying
with Nathanael, 80
barley loaves, 140
Basilides, 19, 65

baskets, different kinds of at the feed-
ing of 5000 and the feeding of 4000, 141
Bethabra, false reading for Bethany, 74
Bethany, two places of this name, 74,
228, 233

Bethesda, 122

Bethsaida, two places of this name, 80, 138
betrayal, 318

blasphemy, the Lord accused of, 127, 196,

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Caesar, speak against, 340
Caesarea, Pilate's residence, 334
Caiaphas, his office, 242; his prophecy, 243
Calvary or Golgotha, 343

Cana, two places of this name, 83; nature
of the miracle at Cana of Galilee, 85
Capernaum, the modern Tell-Ham, 59,
87; argument from the mention of a
visit to, 87

capital punishment, whether allowed to
the Jews by the Romans, 178, 330
centurion's servant different from the
nobleman's son, 120

Cerinthus, the Fourth Gospel attributed
to, 21

characteristics of the Fourth Gospel, 38

-46, 63, 64, 65, 155; of S. John, 16, 46
chief priests, mostly Sadducees, 169, 241;
their baseness, 342

chronology of the Fourth Gospel inde-
finite, 47, 137, 160, 218

Church, first beginning of the, 77; powers
granted to, 362

circumcision prior to the Sabbath, 165
cleansing of the Temple in S. John dis-
tinct from that in the Synoptists, 89
Clement of Alexandria, 20, 33
Clementine homilies, 198, 214
cloths, 353, 356

Clopas or Alphaeus, 346

codices, the principal, containing the
Gospel, 51, 52

coincidences, between S. Paul and S.
John, t6, 280; between the Synoptists
and S. John 50

commandment, Christ's new, 271, 290
cocks, not excluded from Jerusalem, 327
cross. size of the, 348; title on, 344
crown of thorns, 336

cup of suffering, coincidence respecting,

322

date of the Gospel, 33

darkness, in a metaphorical sense, pecu-
liar to S. John, 63

David, Christ's descent from, 173
death, punishment of, whether allowed to
the Jews, 178, 330
Dedication, Feast of, 219

denials, S. Peter's, 326; why narrated
by S. John, 327; difficulties respecting,
380

destruction of Jerusalem, S. John wrote
after the, 234

devil, personal existence of the, 191; in-
fluence on Judas, 262

devil, or demon, Christ accused of being
possessed by a, 166, 193. 194, 218
disciples' imperfections, 86, 91, 114, 115,
156, 250, 357

discourses in the Fourth Gospel con-
trasted with those in the Synoptic
Gospels, 48, 91

discourses of Christ, with Nicodemus,
91; on the Source of life, 126; on the
Support of life, 146; at the Feast of
Tabernacles, 163; at the Feast of the
Dedication, 219; at the last Passover,
261-316

Divinity claimed by Jesus, 186, 192, 196,
222, 285, 289

Docetism excluded from the Fourth Gos-
pel, 144, 351

door of the fold, allegory of, 210, 213.
dove visible at the baptism, 75

Ecce homo quoted, 335,
Elijah, argument from the Baptist's denial
that he is, 73

Ephesus. the abode of S. John, 14; the
place where he wrote his Gospel, 32;
the elders of, 32, 377

Ephraim, city called, 244
Epilogue, an afterthought, 367

Epistle, first of S. John; relation to the
Gospel, 19, 50, 280

eternal life already possessed by be-
lievers, 104, 129. 153, 155, 308
Eucharist, implied in the discourse on
the Bread of Life, 146; why omitted
by S. John, 266; symbolized at the
crucifixion, 350

Evangelists. concurrence of all four, 50,
137, 317, 355, 381

evenings. the two Jewish, 143
excommunication, Jewish, 174, 203, 206

faith, the text of a child of God, 66
false readings, 67, 74, 101, 159, 196, 335, 346
feast, the unnamed in v. 1, probably not
a Passover. 122

feasts, Jewish, S. John groups his narra-
tive round 88

five thousand, feeding of the, 137

forger of a gospel confronted by insuper-
able difficulties, 23

fragments, argument from the command
to gather up, 141

funeral customs among the Jews, 234, 353

Gabbatha, not a mosaic pavement but
the temple mound, 340

Galileans, characteristics of, 10; ill repute
of, 81, 173, 175

Galilee, mixed population in, 11; prophets
from, 175: ministry in, 160

gaps in S. John's narrative, 47, 136, 160, 218
garments, 262

Gentiles seek Christ, 251, 252
Gerizin, temple on, 111

Gethsemane, anticipation of the agony
in. 253

Gnostic demonology, 191, 192

Gnostics, the witness of, to the Fourth
Gospel, 22

Gnosticism, excluded from the Fourth
Gospel, 22, 112, 223, 351

Golgotha, 343.

Gospel, not a Life of Christ, 34

grace before meat, 140

grave, 233, 239

Greek names among the Apostles, 251
Greeks desiring to see Jesus, 251
guards at the Cross, 345

Hebrew, evidence that the author of the
Fourth Gospel knew, 152, 249, 266, 352
Herod Antipas, 118

high priest, supposed to have prophetical
gifts, 243; doubt as to who is meant by
the title, 323 324
Holy Ghost, 283
hyssop, 348

Ignatian epistles, their evidence to the
Fourth Gospel, 19, 108

interpolations, 123, 175, 196
Irenaeus, evidence to the Fourth Gospel,
20; to the duration of the Lord's
ministry, 47, 196

Jacob's well, 107, 109
James, brother of S. John, 9; not men-
tioned by the Evangelist, 79, 346
Jerome, on the brethren of the Lord, 87;
on Sychar, 107: on the paragraph of
the woman taken in adultery, 175; on
the Lord's writing on the ground, 179
Jerusalem, destroyed before S. John
wrote, 234; his minute knowledge of, 26
JESUS:

(i) The Ministry.

Baptist's testimony to Him, 74; dis-
ciples' testimony to Him, 77; turns
water into wine at Cana, 83; pays a
brief visit to Capernauin, 17; cleanses
the Temple, 88; discourses with
Nicodemus, 92; converts many
Samaritans, 105; heals the royal
official's son, 118; heals a paralytic
at Bethesda, 121; reasons with the
Jews about the Son as the Source of
life, 126; feeds five thousand, 137;
who would make Him a king, 142;
walks on the water, 143; reasons with
the Jews about the Son as the Sup-
port of life, 145; with the Twelve
about desertion of Him, 158; with
His brethren about manifesting Him-
self, 160; with the Jews at the Feast
of Tabernacles, 163; is marked for
arrest, 173; [rescues the woman
taken in adultery, 176;] charges the
Jews with seeking to kill Him, 188;
claims to be God, 195; heals the
man born blind, 197; delivers the
allegories of the Fold and of the
Good Shepherd, 210; reasons with
the Jews at the Feast of the Dedica-
tion, 219; retires into Peraea, 225;
raises Lazarus from the dead, 227;
is marked for death by Caiaphas,
243; is anointed by Mary of Bethany,
246; enters Jerusalem in triumph,
249; is sought for by Gentile prose-
lytes, 251; retires from public teach-
ing, 257

(ii) The Issues of the Ministry.
washes His disciples' feet, 261; points

out the traitor, 267; delivers His
farewell discourses to the eleven,
270; foretells Peter's denials, 272;
answers Thomas, 275; Philip, 276;
Judas not Iscariot, 282; delivers the
allegory of the Vine, 286; promises to
send the Paraclete and to return, 295;
prays for Himself, His disciples, and
His Church, 307; is arrested in the
garden, 318; examined before Annas,
322; denied by Peter, 326; examined
by Pilate, 328; mocked, sentenced,
and crucified, 336; dies and is buried,
347; manifests Himself after His
resurrection to Mary Magdalene,

S. JOHN

357; to the ten Apostles, 360; to
Thomas, 363; to seven disciples at
the sea of Tiberias, 367; gives Peter
his last commission and foretells his
death; rebukes his curiosity about
the Evangelist, 375

Jewish elements in the Fourth Gospel,
25-27

Jews, hostility of, to Christianity, 49;
S. John's view of them, 72
John, the son of Zebedee; his parentage,
9; nationality, 10; connexion with the
Baptist, 12, 77; fiery zeal, 13, 15; gives
a home to the Blessed Virgin, 14, 347;
life at Ephesus, 14; traditions about
him, 15, 16; chief characteristics, 16, 17;
probably the unnamed disciple in i. 35,
77; and in xviii. 15, 323; mode of reck-
oning time, 78, 107, 119, 341

John, the Baptist; the Evangelist's man-
ner of naming him, 29, 64; not the
Light but the Lamp, 64, 132; his wit-
ness to the Messiah, 68, 74, 75, 77, 101;
the friend of the Bridegroom, 102; his
baptism, 100, 105

John, the father of Peter, 79, 371
Jordan, ford of, at Bethany, 74; the coun-
try beyond, 225

Joseph, husband of the Virgin, 83
Joseph of Arimathea; his character and
connexion with Nicodemus, 352

Judas Iscariot; his name and character,
159; murmurs at Mary of Bethany, 247;
receives the sop and is entered by
Satan, 269; helps to arrest Jesus, 318
Judas, not Iscariot, 282

Judas of Galilee, rising of, II
Justin Martyr's evidence to the Fourth
Gospel, 19, 73, 94, 197

Keble quoted, 360

Kedron, the ravine of the, 318
kingdom, nature of Christ's, 332

Last Day, 151

Last Supper, not a Passover, 379,
Lazarus, raising of, objections to the, 226;
identifications of, 228

Levites, argument from the mention of, 72
Liddon quoted, 96
Life, 63, 275
Light, 63, 64, 180

Lightfoot quoted, 19, 69, 268, 280
Lord, 149, 179, 207

Love, the Fourth Gospel the Gospel of,
17, 51, 209, 261, 270, 271, 290

Magdalene; see Mary

Majestas, Pilate's fear of being accused
of, 340
Malchus, 322

Manasseh, founder of the rival worship
on Gerizım, III

Marcion'srejection of the Fourth Gospel, 20

25

marriage, Christ gives his sanction to, 87;
symbolical of His relation to His Church,

102

Martha, probably older than Mary and
Lazarus, 229, 234; coincidence between
S. John and S. Luke respecting her,
234; her progressive faith, 235
Mary Magdalene, introduced as a person
well known, 346; visits the sepulchre,
355; manifestation to her, 357; nature
of the rebuke to her, 359

Mary, the wife of Clopas, probably iden-
tical with the mother of James the less,
346

Mary, sister of Lazarus, not identical
with the prostitute of Luke vii., nor
with Mary Magdalene, 228; coinci-
dence between S. John and S. Luke
respecting her, 234; her devotion, 246;
argument from the praise bestowed on
her, 248

Mary, the Blessed Virgin, rebuked by
Christ at Cana, 84; her relationship to
His brethren, 87; to S. John, 10, 346,
347; no special manifestation to her
after the Resurrection, 360
Messiah, Jewish ideas respecting well-
known to the Evangelist, 73, 82, 83,
142; Samaritan, 106, 113
Meyer quoted, 103, 159, 268
ministry, duration of Christ's, 47, 48
miracles in the Fourth Gospel symboli-
cal, 40; spontaneous, 123

mission of Jesus distinct from that of His
disciples, 198, 361; of the Holy Spirit,
279, 283, 294

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Paraclete, threefold office of the, 297;
mission of, see Mission

parallelism in the Fourth Gospel, 45, 62,
72, 184

paralytic at Bethesda, 123

Passion, prominent thoughts in S. John's
narrative of the, 317; probable order
of the events of the, 381

Passover, customs at the, 267, 268, 269,
322; the first, 88; the second, 138; the
last, 245; the Last Supper not the Pass-
over, 379

Paul, coincidences between S. John and
S., 66, 280

Pentecost anticipated, 362

Peter, brought to Jesus by his brother
Andrew, 79; named by Jesus, 79; his
impetuosity, 264, 272, 321, 356, 370; his
denials, 324, 326, 380; his repentance
implied but not recorded by S. John,
327; his visit to the sepulchre, 356;
commission to him and prediction of
his death, 371

Pharisees, the only sect mentioned by
S. John, 73

Philip, called by Jesus, 80; consulted by
Jesus, 139; rebuked by Jesus, 276; his
character, 276

Philo, contrasted with S. John, 61, 67
Pilate, introduced in the narrative as well
known, 329; his residence, 328; tries
to avoid putting Jesus to death, 330;
his famous question, 334; his conflicting
fears, 338, 340; his character, 345.
Polycarp's evidence to the First Epistle,
19; fallacious argument from his con-
troversy with Anicetus, 32
Praetorium, 328

prayer of the Great High Priest, 336
priests, 72; mostly Sadducees, yet com-
bine with the Pharisees, 169, 241,
319

procession of the Holy Spirit, 294
Procurator, Pilate as, conducts the ex-
amination, 331

prophecies fulfilled in Christ, 89, 249, 345,
351

punctuation, differences of, 65, 166, 230,
253, 270, 278

purification, ceremonial, 84, 244
Purim, Feast of, 122

purple robe, 336

purpose, constructions implying, frequent
in S. John, 115, 118, 148, 153, 195, 232,
243, 296. 297

purpose of the Gospel, 34, 366

readings, differences of, 67, 70, 104, 141,
151, 154, 162, 163, 189, 199, 206, 212,
220, 266, 311, 318, 326

remission of sins by the Church, 363

reserve, a characteristic of S. John, 77,
79, 84, 346

resurrection, spiritual, 129; of the wicked,
130; of Christ, 355; Jewish belief as
to, 235

robber or bandit, 211, 335; S. John and
the robber, 15

Sabbath, of later origin than Circum-
cision, 166; Christ's attitude towards,
127; miracles wrought on, 201
Sadducees, not mentioned by S. John, 73;
combine with the Pharisees, 169, 241
Salome, mother of S. John, 9; probably
sister of the Virgin, 346
Samaria, 106

Samaritan, Jesus taunted with being a, 193
Samaritans, relations of, to the Jews, 108,
112; origin, 109; readiness to believe
in Jesus, 116, 117

Samaritan Messiah, 106, 113
Samaritan woman, historical character of
the narrative of, 106; her progressive
faith, 111; the revelation vouchsafed to
her, 114

Samaritan religion, 111, 112

Sanhedrin, 169, 174, 178, 327; in a diffi-
culty respecting the execution of Jesus,

329

Satan, personal existence of, 191; in-
fluence on Judas, 262

scourging, Pilate's object in inflicting, 336
Sebaste, or Samaria, 107
sepulchre, 233, 339

serpent, argument from the mention of, 97
signs, 86

Siloam, pouring of water from, 171; iden-
tified with Birket Silwân, 200
Simon, S. John's usage in employing this
name for S. Peter, 372
Solomon's porch, 219

Son of Man, use of the phrase in the
Gospels, 82; in O. T., 83; its applica-
tion to the Messiah, 83

spiral movement in the Prologue, 71
style of S. John, 42-46, 63, 64, 133
superscription, 344
Supper, the Last, 261
Sychar, 107

symbolical interpretations of Scripture, 370
symbolism in the Fourth Gospel, 40, 41
synagogue at Capernaum, 156

Synoptic Gospels, relation of to the Fourth,
46-50, 77, 91

Tabernacles, Feast of, 161; ceremonies
at, 171, 180

table, mode of reclining at, 267

Talmud quoted, 140; declares fowls un-
clean, 327; declares that the Jews had
lost the power to inflict capital punish-
ment, 330
Targums, 61
Tatian, 63, 64

Temple, traffic in the, 88; Christ's public
teaching in, 164, [177,] 183, 196; Solo-
mon's porch in, 219

Tertullian, defender of a false reading,
67; witness to an early various read-
ing, 206; gives the true 'Note of the
Church',
,272

Thaddaeus, or Judas, 282

Theophilus of Antioch; his evidence to
the Fourth Gospel, 20

Thomas, name and character of, 232,
275, 363; compared with Philip, 276;
nature of his scepticism, 364, 365
thorns, crown of, 336

Tiberias, not mentioned by the Synop-
tists, 138; a centre of education, 11;
sea of, 137, 368; the boats of known to
S. John, 144

Tiberius, chronology of his reign in con-
nexion with Christ's ministry, 48;
Pilate's fear of him, 340

title on the Cross, 344

tombs, 233, 339

tragic brevity in S. John, 270
tragic tone in S. John, 64, 99, 103
transfiguration, not recorded by S. John,
21; not alluded to in v. 37, 133
transmigration of souls, 198
treasury, 183

Trench quoted, 232

Truth, Jesus is the, 275; the Gospel is
the, 333.

trials, ecclesiastical and civil, of Jesus,
322-342

triumphal entry, 249

Twelve, the, spoken of as well-known, 158
typical characters in the Fourth Gospel,
39, 121

typical miracles, 40, 370

Uncial manuscripts, table of, 51, 52

versions, table of principal, 52
vine, allegory of the, 286
vinegar, 348

voice of one crying, &c., 73
voice from heaven, 254

washing the disciples' feet, 263
water, the living, 109

water, Christ walking on the, 143
Way, Jesus is the, 275

Westcott quoted, 30, 42, 50, 146, 214,
307, 316, 317, 333, 362, 369
wilderness, 244

wine, water turned into, 85; objections
to the miracle, 86

woman of Samaria; see Samaritan woman.
woman taken in adultery; see adultery.
women minister to Christ, 10; at the
cross, 346; visit the sepulchre, 354
words from the cross, 382

Zebedee, 9

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