which discussed Bruce Malina’s attempt to infer the social location of the johannine community from the polemic against the Jews: There is no reason why the community is one that is being kicked out of the synagogue at all. The fact that the Gospel deals with Jesus’ conflicts with the Jews may arise because that is what happened to Jesus. You may well be using that to instruct people who are having some other kind of conflict problem.3 Rephrased, we may say with Judge that the narrative of the Gospel