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HE IS RISEN INDEED!

  The Resurrection 24  But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.   2  And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,   3  but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.   4  While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel.   5  And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?   6  He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,   7  that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”   8  And they remembered his words, 9  and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10  Now it was Mary ...

τετέλεσται!

Dan McClellan thinks he knows what τετέλεσται means in John 19 .   On the face of it, he sounds completely rational— until you realize that all he is doing is looking at the word in isolation, divorced from the rest of John, especially in relation to its narrative structure and the themes of covenant & cosmic redemption, revelation, & reconciliation.  Let’s try this…instead of reading the word in isolation, let’s read it as part of the Gospel of John in which the (Suzerain) Covenant between God & Man is up front & center along with comprehensive cosmic redemption & reconciliation with & for the whole of the created order.   John follows the general outline of a suzerain covenant .   Preamble (John 1:1 - 18) Historical Prologue (John 1:19 - 2:25) General Stipulations (John 3:1 - 12:50) Specific Stipulations (John 13:1 - 18:40) Renewal, Document Clause (John 19:1 - 19:42) Witnesses, & Victory  (John 20:1 - 21:25)     ...