Encore une fois «Jésus et le disciple»

• Autor(a) principal: Manns, Frédéric
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: fra
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2011.2310

The theme of ‘discipleship’ is a constant in all of the Gospels. St. John, in his text, presents great sobriety on the theme, which leads authors to reduce the question to chapter 1 (1,35-51. The vocation of the disciples). Frédéric Manns shows that the problem cannot be limited to this textual horizon but, on the contrary, it finds its best framework in chs. 18 and 19, in the context of the narrative of the passion and of the manifestations of Christ Resurrected. As well as the question of the unity between the Master and the disciple, these chapters show us all of the involvement that arises from action and from the relationship between the disciples, from the reference to their names to the description of their attitudes towards the Master. It is in chapters 18 and 19 that the 4th Gospel presents us with the ‘paradigms’ of the disciple from the perspective of ‘following’, drawing attention to three of them: the ‘beloved disciple’, Peter and Judas. The 4th Gospel also has recourse to other forms of framing ‘discipleship’ going well beyond the Twelve and the narrative of their drawing towards Jesus, as in the case of Nicodemus. The relevance conferred upon them at the Supper and the narrative of the Passion defines the manner in which the presence of the ‘disciple’ goes beyond the mere mention of them, placing upon them a profound significance which does not end with the initial chapter. On the contrary, it is in these texts (passion and resurrection) that St. John shows us the road of the disciple and the wealth of his theology concerning ‘following Jesus’.