Book of John and an adulterous wife

Deviating from the synoptic authors, this "orphan" focuses more on the eights (double and triple) and is appropriately placed between Luke's pair of books. The affinities of the eighth chapters of this trio are more than remarkable. Acts 8:8 is eight words and Luke 8:2 names a woman whose sins are many. An awkward redaction of eleven verses occurs at the most auspicious place in John's book. John 8:1-11 begins at book word 5745 and ends at book word 5905. There are four places to mark an important word (two pairs of 80/88). Not coincidentally, the eighteenth last word is 5888.

The first pair is now the eighteenth time "woman" is used (the last editor uses it four times, once in the vocative; John used it 17 times, of which five are in the vocative). Book word 5780 (8:3) is the only time "woman" is in the accusative and 5788 (8:4) is the dative "him." The last pair is the dative "her" as book word 5880 (8:10) and 5888 (8:11) is an irregular construction of the definite article (nominative feminine singular) and a particle. "She" says two words: "No One, Lord! | Οὐδείς, κύριε."

A curious anomaly of this redaction seems to desire detection. The scene has a pronounced intimacy with all three speakers addressing their listener as "Teacher!"; "Woman!"; and "Lord!" Fortuitously, this makes the first and last use of "woman" the eighteenth noun and the sixth vocative. Casinos would ban these word-counters!

Four pronouns should confirm that every word has been counted (two directly and two indirectly). Rabbi Jesus has the pronoun αὐτόν as book word 5766, and the ones he is teaching are numbered 5770 ("Pharisees" is 5777). Indirectly, his tempters in 8:6 want something "that they may have to accuse of him | ἵνα ἔχωσιν κατηγορεῖν αὐτοῦ" and the pronoun is the 177th (original book has αὐτοῦ 172 times). Again, in 8:7, "the sinless one of you | ὁ ἀναμάρτητος ὑμῶν" has the plural pronoun break the symmetry of sevens by making it the 50th (the redactor of chapter 21 does not use it).

The Greek Testament would not have "sinless one" and the book of John would not have "Olives," "Scribes," and "Elders" or the verb "to condemn" (twice), without this redactor.

A "He said/She said" seems to be established in this appendage to the book which describes the most intimate relationship between this man and this woman is amplified by the scene in the cave.

Proof is provided by the verb "to touch." Used only once, it shows the closeness of the couple in a very private place. Greek has two negatives, the relative (μή) and the absolute (οὐ). Jesus says: "Don't touch me | μή ἅπτου μου," but there is ambiguity in those three words as elucidated by a footnote by Spiros Zodhiates: "The verb ἅπτου, the present imperative of ἅπτομαι, should be translated 'do not continue touching me.'" The strong imperative verb (do touch!) with the weak relative negative (not touch?) are paired by the author to show the present state of this pair: the Rabbi and the Magdalene.

A triad is formed by the verb "she said" as book word 888 (2:5), our mysterious adulterous "She" as book word 5888 (8:11) and Mary the Magdalene in 20:18 where her name is numbered 14788. Whether this is only a paper triad or an actual pair of women should be fairly obvious. What's more humbling than a woman sharing a name with her mother-in-law?

A family seems to be indicated by numbers behind the characters in the ninth chapter. The parents of a son born "blind" are the center of controversy between them, their son, the Rabbi and the Judeans. "Parents" is used six times: the first as 6833 (9:2), the third as 7122 (9:18) and the fifth as 7188 (9:22). Note the formation of triple-eight. The place known only to John and Luke as the pool of Siloam is 6988 (9:11). This is where Jesus "made clay"; the verb is book word 6888. When he is being re-interrogated by the Judeans, the "blind one" is book word 7088 (9:17). When the Judeans "vilify" him (used once by John, Luke, Peter and Paul), the verb is 7288 (9:28) and lastly, he later elicits an emphatic "Thou!" as book word 7388 (9:34). Having left the scene, Jesus ends with an indictment of some Pharisees who heard him talking with the one who took mud in the eyes. The name of the one who made that clay is book word 7488 (9:41).

Now a brief list of words made a little more significant by being the eighth in their usage and the number they are in the book. The noun "temple" is 8x10 as 7888 (10:23); and the vocative "Lazarus!" is 8x16 as 8880 (11:43) [made by counting the first two of the five pronouns].

The form of the verb "he led" is used twice. In 1:42, a brother leads Simon (Peter) to Jesus. That brother is Andrew and his name is book word 688 (1:44). In 19:13, the man who led Rabbi Jesus to be judged is Pilate. The name is the thirteenth time but the verb is the eighth word of the verse as book word 13888. The man whom he sits for on the judgement seat is Caesar, which is book word 13880.