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Possible Sources for John’s Gospel (Box 9.4)
- a “Signs Gospel” that recorded seven or eight miracle stories (2:1–12; 4:46–54; 5:1–9; 6:1–13; 9:1–7; 11:1–44; 21:1–6; maybe 6:15–25) and may have included an account of the passion and resurrection
- a collection of remembrances of one called the “beloved disciple,” dealing mostly with the last week of Jesus’s life
- a body of material underlying the great discourses of Jesus, possibly sermons by the beloved disciple or another prominent member of the community