It's always fascinating the connections that you can see when you slow down as you read a text. For me one of those connections came today in John 20:22. As I read through the text, in light of a conversation yesterday with a colleague, and came across the verb ἐνεφύσησεν, being unfamiliar with it (it occurs only once in the New Testament), I did a little digging. The verb (ἐμφυσάω) occurs in the LXX only in the aorist (which is the tense used in John), and occurs only in 7 places (Gen 2:7; 1 Kgs 17:21; Job 4:21; Wis 15:11; Nah 2:2; Ezek 21:36; 37;9). In each of these instances, with exception of Nah 2:2 and Ezek 21:36, the use indicates the breathing of life into a human.
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Something struck me in the 18th chapter of John today that I had not really noticed before. It is here, as Simon Peter and the "other" disciple enter the courtyard of the high priest, that Peter's famous denials of Jesus take place. When asked if he is a disciple of Jesus (John 18:17, 25, 27), Peter's answer for the first two questioners is "I am not" (οὐκ εἰμί). What struck me
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