"John chapter 7 shifts scene and speaker several times:Version A: With PA in Place:
Version B: Now See what happens when you take out 7:53-8:11:
v. 1-9 Dialog between Jesus and his brothers in Galilee
v 10-13 Jews looking for Jesus in Jerusalem
v. 14-24 Jesus and the Jews in Jerusalem
v. 25-27 Jews to each other in Jerusalem
v. 28-30 Jesus to the Jews at the temple
v. 31-32 Jews who heard him to each other near the Pharisees
v. 33-34 Jesus to the Jews
v. 35-36 Jews who heard him to each other
v. 37-39 Jesus to the Jews on the last day of the feast
v. 40-44 People who heard him to each other
- Jesus now certainly absent from the scene -
v. 45-49 Pharisees, guards to each other at Pharisee HQ (see v. 32)
v. 50-52 Pharisees, Nicodemus to each other
v. 53 Pharisees, guards leave the scene
- Jesus comes back on the scene -
8: 1 Jesus goes to Mount of Olives & back to temple
8: 2 Jesus present teaching people at temple
8: 3-9 Scribes and Pharisees with Jesus at temple
8: 10-11 Jesus, the woman taken in adultery (and left)
8: 12 Jesus to the people in the temple
8: 13-20 Pharisees and Jesus in the temple treasury
v. 35-36 Jews who heard him to each other
v. 37-39 Jesus to the Jews on the last day of the feast
v. 40-44 People who heard him to each other
- Jesus now certainly absent from the scene -
v. 45-49 Pharisees, guards to each other at Pharisee HQ (see v. 32)
v. 50-52 Pharisees, Nicodemus to each other
- - - PA deleted - - - -
8: 12 Jesus to the people in the temple (no entrance!)
8: 13-20 Pharisees and Jesus in the treasury
Jesus speaking "again" in v. 12 must either refer to the people in v. 8:2, or all the way back to the people in v. 7:37-44. Everything in v. 45-53 intrudes on the context, without the PA there.
Notice how Bibles that leave out v. 2 have to mistranslate v. 12 to make sense of it.
Daniel Buck
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