ON THE STYLE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF JOHN 17

efforts to uncover the chiastic design of John 1:19-5:47 and of several major sections in the rest of the Gospel (6:1-12:50; 13:1-35; 13:36- 14:31; 15:1-17:26).5 Talbert concludes that "a balanced symmetrical plan for the construction of most of the Gospel emerges,"6 with the first half of John (1:19-12:50) falling into two large chiasmuses (1:19- 5:47; 6:1-12:50) introduced by a chiastically ... ................
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