We’re back to the beginning of John’s account of the Last Supper. It’s beforethe festival of the Passover. There’s a difference here between John and the other Gospels that scholars still debate. I was taught at school that the other Gospels should always be preferred on matters of chronology. John was good at theology, but go to them for history. Later when I studied at Cambridge with John Robinson (who was actually a substantial and sometimes quite conservative scholar), I came to understand that it wasn’t as simple as that. St John in fact preserves some very early and very accurate memories of both dates and places – and this may well be one of them. Read more of this post David Thomson | April 18, 2019 at 9:00 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: https://wp.me/poSLL-3HF |