

Does Jesus in John sound so different? The Messianic Secret Argument
John 8:58 and John 10:30 contain quite clear references to Jesus' deity. The fact that these don't appear in the Synoptic Gospels is used as an argument that John invents material. Sometimes the argument is a pure argument from silence. Sometimes an added argument will be that Jesus "wouldn't have" spoken this explicitly about his own deity since, in the Synoptics, he sometimes told people not to tell others that he was the Messiah. If he was secretive about being the Messiah, you'll hear, he wouldn't have spoken explicitly about being God, as he apparently does in John. So John must be inventing those incidents. (Though sometimes the misleading term "paraphrase" will be used to hide what the claim really is.) I suggest what I believe is the best way of replying to these arguments. And surprise! The best way isn't arguing for high Christology in the Synoptics. Learn a better way here.
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Originally published to YouTube Jul 31, 2022