Jesus in John sounds soooo different? (Nah, not really)

I'm starting a series this week on the claim that Jesus in John sounds soooo different from Jesus in the Synoptics. This is used to argue both for the lesser historicity of the sayings and discourses of Jesus in John's Gospel and for the generally looser grip on history in the Gospel of John.  In this first part in the series, I challenge straight-up the claim that there is virtually nothing (except the famous "Johannine thunderbolt" in Matthew 11:27) in the Synoptic that sound like Jesus in John. This is just a portion of the evidence that Jesus actually says a lot of things that sound similar in John and the Synoptics.  

Here is the article at the journal Conspectus that I mentioned (it's 100% free):   https://journals.co.za/doi/10.54725/conspectus.2021.2.2 

Here is a free chapter of The Eye of the Beholder:  http://lydiamcgrew.com/EOBChapter1.pdf 

Here are the endorsements of The Eye of the Beholder:  http://lydiamcgrew.com/EOBEndorsements.pdf 

Here is an earlier video where I discuss the "heads John loses, tails John loses" fallacy and the problem with trying to "defend" John by saying that he moved a Synoptic saying:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGBI9KalFRw

Originally published to YouTube Jul 24, 2022