if the last sign was suddenly broken into two distinct acts that took place over three days. In addition to all of this, John then makes an explicit statement that Mary went to go see Jesus’ tomb on the (20:1). If the signs truly do correlate to days of creation, the resurrection “first day” then is the 8th sign, and 8th day. It is the of the New Creation, inaugurated by the “first day” resurrection of Jesus, which implicitly looks forward to the final day of the New Creation: the resurrection of followers. Due to very intentional placement of both the Christ’s John’s crucifixion and the resurrection on meaningful days in the creation narrative, it is likely John intended for these two moments to be considered independent signs. Garden Imagery in the Passion Narrative From the beginning of the Passion narrative, all the way through the end of the book, Gospel is filled with imagery alluding to the garden of Eden. Throughout the entire NT, John’s is only used five times: once in Luke 13:19, and four times in John (18:1; 26; κῆπος “garden” and twice in 19:41). Such rare use of this word indicates John likely had a special purpose in using it. The first piece of garden imagery is at the arrest of Jesus, which takes place in a garden (18:1; 26). Some have argued that this cannot be an allusion to Eden, because the word for garden in 18:1 is the LXX translates garden as in Gen. κῆπος, whereas παράδεισος “paradise” 2:8. But, Suggit rightly observes, the Genesis narrative the Hebrew is rendered in the Septuagint by gan “In (Gen. 2:8), but elsewhere in the Old Testament is translated by In paradeisos gan Kepos. Ezekiel 36:35 is rendered as kepos and Sanders and Mastin (1968) gan-eden truphes, note that Auila and Theodotion rendered by in Genesis. Since in gan Kepos paradeisos the New Testament signified the future state in the presence of God (Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 12:4; Rev. 2:7) it was an unsatisfactory word to use to refer to an earthly garden.”
if the last sign was suddenly broken into two distinct acts that took place over three days. In addition to all of this, John then makes an explicit statement that Mary went to go see Jesus’ tomb on the “first day” (20:1). If the signs truly do correlate to days of creation, the resurrection then is the 8th sign, and 8th day. It is the “first day” of the New Creation, inaugurated by the resurrection of Jesus, which implicitly looks forward to the final day of the New Creation: the resurrection of Christ’s followers. Due to John’s very intentional placement of both the crucifixion and the resurrection on meaningful days in the creation narrative, it is likely John intended for these two moments to be considered independent signs. Garden Imagery in the Passion Narrative From the beginning of the Passion narrative, all the way through the end of the book, John’s Gospel is filled with imagery alluding to the garden of Eden. Throughout the entire NT, κῆπος “garden” is only used five times: once in Luke 13:19, and four times in John (18:1; 26; and twice in 19:41). Such rare use of this word indicates John likely had a special purpose in using it. The first piece of garden imagery is at the arrest of Jesus, which takes place in a garden (18:1; 26). Some have argued that this cannot be an allusion to Eden, because the word for garden in 18:1 is κῆπος, whereas the LXX translates garden as παράδεισος “paradise” in Gen. 2:8. But, Suggit rightly observes, “In the Genesis narrative the Hebrew gan is rendered in the Septuagint by paradeisos (Gen. 2:8), but elsewhere in the Old Testament gan is translated by Kepos. In Ezekiel 36:35 gan-eden is rendered as kepos truphes, and Sanders and Mastin (1968) note that Auila and Theodotion rendered gan by Kepos in Genesis. Since paradeisos in the New Testament signified the future state in the presence of God (Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 12:4; Rev. 2:7) it was an unsatisfactory word to use to refer to an earthly garden.”
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