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21 " We looked on his glory,” said the Evangelist of the incarnate Word in his prologue. Now he has narrated the first of a sequence of “signs "
― F.F. Bruce , The Gospel of John: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition
22 " Canonical exegesis may be defined as the interpretation of individual components of the canon in the context of the canon as a whole. Even in the pre-canonical period evidence of intra-biblical interpretation is not lacking. In the Old Testament it can be seen how later law-codes took over the provisions of earlier codes and applied them to fresh situations, or how later prophets took up and reinterpreted the oracles of their predecessors. "
― F.F. Bruce , The Canon of Scripture
23 " An individual gospel might have been designed as the gospel for a particular community, but when it was included in a collection with other writings of the same genre, the individual writings were viewed as complementary one to another, each presenting a distinctive aspect of the ministry of Jesus. "
24 " The money-changers also performed a convenient service for visitors to the temple, who might bring all sorts of coinage with them and require to have it exchanged for something more acceptable. "
25 " What Jesus did is best classified as an act of prophetic symbolism. If he had Zechariah 14:21 in his mind when he protested against his Father’s house (cf. Luke 2:49) being turned into a supermarket, we may recall that the preceding verses of Zechariah 14 tell how all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship. "
26 " The Jews” here are members of the establishment, especially the temple authorities, as in Mark 11:25 f. Their request for a “sign” was misguided. What sign could have been more eloquent than that which they had just witnessed? "
27 " The Evangelist explains that the words of Jesus referred to his body, "
28 " question of the chronological relation of John’s account of the temple cleansing to the Synoptic version which dates it during Holy Week is not easy to answer; an adequate answer, indeed, would require a separate excursus.150 It seems probable that John takes it out of its chronological sequence and places it, with programmatic intent, in the forefront of his record of Jesus’ Jerusalem ministry. If his readers understand the significance of this incident, they will know what the ministry was all about. "
29 " There are two levels of believing in Jesus’ name—that spoken of in John 1:12, which carries with it the authority to become God’s children, and that spoken of here. "
30 " It was only those whose faith and allegiance were beyond question that he admitted into the inner secret of his person and purpose. "
31 " Great Babylon” (16:19): though Babylon is not mentioned in Scripture between Genesis 11:9 (Babel is the Hebrew name for Bab-ili, which we render Babylon) and the days of Hezekiah, it had its own position in Hebrew thought. Though it had little political importance between its capture by the Kassites in 1530 BC and its being made the capital of a Chaldean empire in 626 BC, it was the virtually undisputed commercial and religious capital of the Fertile Crescent. So it is the personification, so to speak, for the Bible, of humanity organized for financial profit, and of manmade religion in all its attractive sophistry. These are the two aspects which are dealt with in chapters 17 (religion) and 18 (commerce). If we compare Nahum and Habakkuk, we shall learn something of the different impression created by the pride and cruelty of Assyria and the corruption of human nature which the prophet saw in Babylon. "
― F.F. Bruce , The Open Your Bible New Testament Commentary: Page by Page (Open Your Bible Commentary Book 2)
32 " El canon cristiano, tal como fue promulgado por Marción, comprendía dos partes,—una llamada El Evangelio (una adecuada recensión del tercer Evangelio) y otra llamada El Apóstol (una recensión similar editada de las nueve cartas de Pablo a las iglesias y su carta a Filemón). "
― F.F. Bruce , El libro de los Hechos
33 " El segundo volumen se inicia con el relato de la resurrección de Jesús y va hasta los treinta años siguientes; registra el avance del Evangelio a lo largo del camino que va desde Judea vía Antioquía a Roma, y finaliza con el heraldo en jefe proclamando el Evangelio en el corazón del Imperio con la aquiescencia en pleno de las autoridades imperiales. "
34 " The suggestion is made from time to time that the canon of scripture might be augmented by the inclusion of other ‘inspirational’ literature, ancient or modern, from a wider cultural spectrum.947 But this betrays a failure to appreciate what the canon actually is. It is not an anthology of inspired or inspiring literature. If one were considering a collection of writings suitable for reading in church, the suggestion might be more relevant. When a sermon is read in church, the congregation is often treated to what is, in intention at least, inspirational literature; the same may be said of prayers which are read from the prayerbook or of hymns which are sung from the hymnbook. But when the limits of the canon are under consideration, the chief concern is to get as close as possible to the source of the Christian faith. By "