Sunday, March 19, 2023

Robert Tomson Fortna on John 2:4

Robert Tomson Fortna rendered John 2:4 as “Woman, what have you [or your concern[ to do with me?”; commenting on the verse, he wrote in a footnote that the phrase is:

 

A form of the Semitic phrase used in the Synoptics by demons protesting Jesus’ imminent expulsion of them and also in OT in connection with Elijah. (Robert Tomson Fortna, The Fourth Gospel and Its Predecessor: From Narrative Source to Present Gospel [Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1988], 55 n. 116)