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SIMON PETER
(a) It would be perfectly useless to try to identify the 1
SIMON PETER
(e) A further object Jn. has in view is the relegation
two accounts. Harmonistic efforts confine themrelre~ of Peter to a subarri~nnie pl~ce. Elsewhere (SR g
to the assertion that Jn. is describing an earlier this happens only so far ar the beloved disciple is con.
occurrence than that recorded in the synoptists. That ' crrned : but here we see it also in operation rlth
in Jn is spoken of as the 'call to friendship,' reference to Andrew who elsewhere comes fomurd but
that in the rynoptistr as the 'call to disciple- 1 little in the Fourth Gospel.
ship.' Any such distinction, however, is quite ; The cause of this feature lies perhaps tin sympathy with the
arbitrary, =he . foilow (dKo~o&~rr Which SOT ofihe wIIkroErnrmvr withregard to whlchrtary Thoma
(Glnrrir d. /oh..E~~ng.,,+d;o~ 1.88~1) supposes that it served
Jesus addresses in Jn. 143 to Philip. holds good sub- J,,. T\VO drrcipier come to know jerur as n~es~i~h;
stantially, it doer not rleed to be raid, also for those ihe one is aftcrwardr mcncioned by name, rhcother nor - on their
called before Philip, for it is hard to see why we are to I TC'U'" '0 Jeruul~ln it ir fo.nd that Jerhi has rppe;red also
regard them ns entering into less intimate relations with
""Ier. Thus Ihe place.
Jesus thnn he. ~h~ same however (dxohou&;~),
(f) The tenth how also iJn. 139) Thoma thinks to be
stands i,,~k. 118 &I,. dlo 21 ~ k 5,,, . where it is the ,-11 derived from Lk. (2419); 'it is towards evening.'
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Such comhmat.""~, however, are from ,he narvrc of the ur
to discipleship' that is derriixd. And even apart from 1
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