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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the apostle John or his writings.

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  • The teaching of the Fourth Gospel is also found in the Johannean

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Johannean record requires a separate treatment, because it may seem and it has been repeatedly affirmed, that John and the Johannean Jesus ascribed to miracles a far greater and at the same time, a more external importance.

    The Miracles of Jesus 1872-1959 1907

  • Johannean words of Jesus on miracles are also considered.

    The Miracles of Jesus 1872-1959 1907

  • And the further connection of the thought proves irrefutably that the fundamental conception of Jesus, as to the place of his miracles, according to the Johannean account, is none other than that of the synoptists.

    The Miracles of Jesus 1872-1959 1907

  • While the account of the synoptists is so excessively unbiased that we would think that Jesus possessed inherent power of miracle, and while sometimes the idea seems to be that Jesus walked among men like a miracle-worker, practicing magic, according to the Johannean tradition Jesus refers his miraculous power to a continual connection with the heavenly Father who in any particular individual case consents to a performance of the miracle.

    The Miracles of Jesus 1872-1959 1907

  • It will be seen that the Johannean discourses of Jesus offer no grounds for the supposition that Jesus ever insisted that his miracles were means for awakening faith.

    The Miracles of Jesus 1872-1959 1907

  • There is nothing in the Johannean conception of the Son that is higher.

    The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John 1886

  • Epistles of St. Peter and Jude; (2) the Pauline, represented, in addition to the Epistles of the great apostle, by the Gospel of St. Luke and the Acts of the Apostles; and (3) the Johannean, represented by the fourth Gospel and the three Epistles of St. John.

    Christian Doctrine of Sin 1823-1886 1876

  • It is the same victory (a peculiarly Johannean phrase) over Satan and the world which the Gospel of John describes in the life of Jesus, his Epistle in the life of each believer, and his

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Johannean source, if we were asked our reasons for this belief, we should be very hard put to it to give them.

    The Fair Haven Samuel Butler 1868

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