Another Insight into the diagramed Story 6 from John's Gospel

Another insight into the diagramed Story 6 from John’s gospel (3:22-4:14)

Logically, if the supporting statements in a Story written in the literary form of the parable (the focus, reflection and appropriating the wisdom statements) were removed from the Story, the "guts" of the Story would still remain. This is clearly seen when reading only the story and wisdom statements within the Story.

What's interesting is that the "supporting cast" also reads as a story in itself. It’s important that we read that story too because sometimes it gives important insight into the Story. Take a look at the focus, reflection and appropriating the wisdom statements in John's Story 6:


22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and people kept coming and were being baptized. 25 Now a discussion about purification arose between John’s disciples and a Jew. 27 John answered, 28 You yourselves are my witnesses that The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God’s wrath. “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”