One sometimes
hears that in his gospel John is not concerned with time or with timing. That is simply false. I often hear this assertion when I argue that
the so-called “bread of life discourse” in John 6 is not about the Passover,
the Last Supper, the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, which are many chapters and
much time away. Consider the following items:
Day one: 1:19-28
“on the
morrow”: 1: 29-34
“on the
morrow”: 1: 35-42
“on the
morrow”: 1: 43-50
Day three: 2: 1-11
“after this: 2: 12
“abode not
many days”
The Passover at hand:
2: 13-22
During Passover
2: 23-3: 21
During activity of John the Baptist 4: 1ff
“after two
days”: 4: 43
“after these
things”: 5: 1-47
“after these
things”: 6: 1-21
Passover at hand: 6:
4
“on the
morrow”: 6: 22-59
“after these
things”: 7:1-13
Feast of the tabernacles:
7: 2
“the midst of
the feast” 7: 14
Feast of dedication:
10: 22-39
Passover at hand: 11:
54-57
“six days
before the Passover”: 12: 1-11
“on the
morrow”: 12: 12-36a
Before the Feast of the Passover (13:1)
“sixth hour”:
19:14
“preparation”:
19: 31
first day: 20:
1-18
evening:
20: 19-25
eighth day:
20: 26-29
“After these things”: 21: 1-23
*from Merrill C. Tenney,
John: The Gospel of Belief,
pp. 40, 41
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