The thing is that the gospel was… intended for Christians, not for Jews, and it should have looked decent to them according to their faith in the Son of God – but then at least in the son of the Jewish Jehovah (who for the Jews cannot have any children or relatives in general, but for Christians it will do), this was the meaning of all these editors. And the fact that He violated the Sabbath is not so important, the Jews later explained it to Christians by his stricter observance of the Law, not by the letter of a formality, but by the Spirit of Jehovah’s love and mercy to his chosen ones. And of course, the necessary quotations from the Jewish Law were immediately found and were cited by the interpreters. “He said to them: “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and was hungry for himself and those with him? How he entered the house of God under the high priest Abiathar and ate the offering bread, which was not supposed to be eaten by anyone but the priests, and gave it to those with him? “And he said, “Saturday is for a man, not a man for the Sabbath. Therefore, the son of man is the lord of the sabbaths as well. “Mark 2: 23—28. It would be foolish to directly deny the Son-godhood of Jesus when addressing Christians – and having received the gospel of John, the Jewish editors “added their tar (lies) to the Christian honey” so that it was not noticeable at first glance, to a possible extent mixing in Judaism to the Gospel of John as the defining religion for Jesus. “I am the master of the Sabbath, I am the true Law” – this is what the Jewish Christians read in these lines. Jesus is shown here as… Yahweh himself.
Now let’s take a look at this scene through the eyes of an eyewitness. Overcrowding, dirt, stench – sick people rot for years in this pool by the water in the hope of healing, and there are thousands of them. Jesus came – and immediately the first question: He is the Son of God, merciful and compassionate – so WHY did He not take and heal ALL at once? That would be a great and socially significant miracle – and an act of divine mercy. Why was it necessary to look for some chosen one, no matter how good he was in himself. What, out of thousands of sufferers, only one was worthy of a divine visit?
Well, let’s say he healed. The one who had been lying paralyzed for almost forty years suddenly got up and went. – And then what? Yes, the fact that an unimaginable hubbub would have risen, and not just a hubbub, there would have begun a form of pandemonium, people, the whole thousand-strong crowd would have rushed to Jesus and would have simply trampled Him on the spot, tore him apart. And He would not go anywhere, would not dissolve in any crowd – that would be the end of Him. Let’s pay attention to a strange fact: the ill person confesses him as Lord before he was healed! Whom does he see in front of him? The ragamuffin alien who also came to be healed in the bath, is, accordingly, a competitor. And suddenly – Lord! The cart is again ahead of the horse.
So this scene is made up from start to finish.
This is followed by a long morality of Jesus, whom the Jews allegedly were eager to stone for breaking the Sabbath – and He reads a sermon to them in response, and they suddenly listen to him, obediently listen to “His voice” like sheep at His feet – amazing! It could be attributed to a miracle if they suddenly calmed down – but they continue to break off the chain and it is completely incomprehensible what keeps them from reprisal against Him on the spot, of course, for the blasphemy.
“18 And the Jews sought to kill Him even more because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God His Father, making Himself equal to God” – and here is the insert of the second layer, here the second editors already directly deny the Son-godhood of Jesus, without cunning approaches of the first editors
They are eager to kill Him, and He keeps speaking with them so calmly.
“19 To this Jesus said: truly, truly, I say to you: the Son can do nothing of Himself unless he sees the Father doing: for what He does, the Son also does the same” – this phrase is found in various forms in e. Jn. at least five more times. And what is it that the Father does out of what the Son does? We find the answer below.
“20 For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all that He Himself does; and he will show him deeds greater than these, so that you will be amazed.21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants”– but where, whom and when did God raise from the dead? Jehovah – no one and never, and we have not yet really learned anything about the Father from Jesus. And why is it mentioned here then? Well – as a preparation in advance for the main miracle: the resurrection of Lazarus the Four-Day, the authors of the Gospel are impatient to tell about it and they run ahead. But the Judaizers are on guard, and immediately this impatience is suppressed.
“22 For the Father does not judge anyone, but has given all judgment to the Son, 23 so that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father” – the judgment was taken by the Jews from biblical prophecies about the “end times”! And in the third chapter, any mention of the judgment in the teachings of Jesus, as an element of the pagan Jewish legend, is suppressed.
“He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him” – similar to the phrase in the authentic sermon of Jesus, but we will meet it more than once.
“24 Truly, truly, I say to you: he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life” – impudently and unceremoniously right in the middle is inserted about judgment, which completely changes the meaning of this very important phrase, the utterance of Jesus, undoubtedly genuine, and constituting the core of his Teachings, as we will see with you in the future. This phrase should sound like this: “he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, has passed from death to life.”
In theory, this is where the chapter should end, it’s like a summing up, period.
And here the second floor of Judaization begins (or continues): it seemed to the second Judaizers that the Son of God was developed here, they, apparently, did not understand all the subtleties of the first implementation of the Jewish editing, and decided to add from themselves direct, straightforwardly, bluntly. Well, off we go, “according to the scriptures” to the end of the chapter.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. – Well, the zombie apocalypse promised by Mashiach suddenly sounds like the voice of Jesus – all of a sudden! And then it proceeds onto covreing all points of biblical prophecy:
5:26For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself: 5:27and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. 5:28Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, 5:29and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment. 5:30I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 5:31If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 5:32It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 5:33Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth. 5:34But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved. 5:35He was the lamp that burneth and shineth; and ye were willing to rejoice for a season in his light. 5:36But the witness which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 5:37And the Father that sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 5:38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not. 5:39Ye