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
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
Bethsaida, two places of this name, 80, 138 betrayal, 318
blasphemy, the Lord accused of, 127, 196,
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,
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
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:
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,
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 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
marriage, Christ gives his sanction to, 87; symbolical of His relation to His Church,
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
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,
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
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
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