THE FAITH OF THE BELOVED DISCIPLE AND THE COMMUNITY IN JOHN 20* Brendan Byrne Among the many distinctive features in the Fourth Gospel’s treatment of the resurrection of Jesus is the presence of ‘the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved’ alongside Peter in the first episode at the empty tomb (20:1–10). The scene, in fact, reaches its climax in the Johannine account when we are told (v. 8) that this disciple, upon entry into the tomb, ‘saw and believed’, and so became, according to this Gospel,
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