In Mark, as everyone knows, Jesus goes up to Jerusalem only once, at the end. In John, on the other hand, he seems to be up there almost every chapter. I think, however, that the units of the Signs Gospel at the base of our present John often concentrated on Jerusalem as the place of opposition and consummation, so that many units happened, as it were, “in Jerusalem.” It was only when the entire unity was read as a sequential narrative composition that Galilean, or Samaritan, or Judean locations had to be correlated, so that one is now left with an overall impression that Jesus was constantly
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