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SIMON PETER<br />

111. ACCORDING TO THE FOURTH GOSPEL.<br />

If we turn now to the utterances of the FourthGospel<br />

less regarding Peter, we shall find that some of<br />

them rest upon those of the synoptists and<br />

divergent have merely received a Johannine colouring :<br />

bmt that others. where they contain new<br />

matter, cannot lay clvihn to historicity.<br />

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wielded the sword whilst the syndptistr merely say: 'A<br />

certain oneof them that stood bv' ihlk. 14~~1.<br />

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SIMON PETER<br />

believed and know' (cp 11~71131Jn. 4 16). Finally, wc note<br />

the absence of any word of recognltlon on the prrt oiJeru* such<br />

a we find in at Icat hlt. 16 17.<br />

(d) According to Jn. I*, Uethsaida ir the city of Peter<br />

(and Andrew) : according to Mk. Izi sg= Lk. 431 38, an<br />

dso according to Mt. 8s I+, it is Caprrz~aun~.<br />

1n of the dircrepa~~cy it is susgcrrad that Peter<br />

(and Andrew) belonged to liethralds; or rrrvurrc is<br />

evzn had to the wholly ,nadmtu~ble xegcr~rth~l~~~~~di~~to<br />

ihe<br />

change of<br />

in Jn. 144 Philip wL3m virtue oi h1r then<br />

domicile 'oi' Bethsnlda(irbBnB~at6n) but by birth he was '0°C<br />

?r' Capernaum the city of Andrew ?r~d Perer (2s nir rdhrwc<br />

ndpsu x,; nirpou) In rerll!y II 13 even uncsrrain ~ h~th:~<br />

fhc mmine of Bethrahda has clalrn or onlv maker claim to hlrto.ic2.1<br />

acG..cy. cp PxIL,", co1. p7ra, r;. 2.<br />

In the account of the denial of Peter (Jn. 18x5-27)-<br />

(a) The most important differences a. compared with<br />

the rynoptirts (Mk. 1454 a6-pand s ) are that Peter gains<br />

19, Deni al,, access 10 the palace of the high priert<br />

through the intervention of an 'other<br />

I'der, lhks 21, xhe ih.ts,l - >.> f 1s ...- LC, ~tl.~r g.-t rhrv. Upon both these points see<br />

. . . l,O,,!, w1.y .a"!. ,<br />

5 zz, begin. Legendary<br />

I i"I1 w ,I.

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