The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

the form of brief notes, by heading what each said
in this manner, NtcO' demus :—or, Jesus :. They
are only the outlines of the conversation, given, in
each case, the really important gist, and leaving
abrupt gaps between, as would be the manner in
such notes. Tet quite sufficient to tell us all that is
important for us to know. We can scarcely doubt
that it was the narrator, John, who was the witness
that took the notes. His own reflections upon it, or
rather his after-look upon it, in the light of later
facts, and under the teaching of the Holy Ghost, is
described in the verses with which the writer
follows his account of what had passed between
Jesus and Nico-demus (St. John iii. 16-21). In the
same manner he winds up with similar reflections
(ib. w. 31-36) the reported conversation between
the Baptist and his disciples. In neither case are
the verses to which
> This, of course, is not the view of Gospel, since
otherwise it were impossible the Tubingen School,
which regards the that, when expressly treating of
Baptism, whole of this narrative as representing a