John and the Synoptics in the Passion Narrative

Abstract

In an article entitled ‘Zum Problem “Johannes und die Synoptiker”, S. Mendner has again raised the question of the relationship between the Gospel of John and the Synoptics (Syn). Comparing John vi. 1–30 with the synoptic parallels, he discovers that John's account of the Feeding of the Five Thousand is a literary development of the synoptic account. On the other hand Mark and Matthew have moulded the account of Jesus walking on the sea after the Johannine example.