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In 1970, Robert Fortna published The Gospel of Signs. This attempt to reconstruct the text of the Fourth Gospel’s “predecessor” has since become a vital tool for research into the origins of the Gospel. Now, with The Fourth Gospel and its Predecessor, he provides a further important contribution to Johannine theology by returning to the source of the Fourth Gospel and comparing it to the present...

about to die. 48Therefore Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you refuse to believe!” 49The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” 50aJesus said to him, “Go, your son lives.” It is the aporia of v. 48 that causes the problems. The official had not asked for a sign, still less demanded to believe; clearly he believed in some fashion already. So why Jesus’ outburst, and what is the logic of the narrator’s “Therefore”?10 Whom is Jesus addressing? Why
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