Today's discussion was inspired by this post on Bart Ehrman's blog. https://ehrmanblog.org/john-versus-the-synoptics-how-does-jesus-raise-the-dead/Most of it is behind a paywall for subscribers, but Ehrman says that he makes the same argument in _The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings_.Ehrman claims that the raising of Lazarus, contrasted with the raising of Jairus's daughter, illustrates an overall tendency which shows that John's Gospel is significantly ahistorical. This is the supposed tendency of John to make Jesus' miracles more of a public spectacle than in the Synoptics, to make Jesus use his miracles as signs of his power and identity, and to make Jesus far more focused on himself. Supposedly, in the Synoptics Jesus *refuses* to use his miracles as signs.I show that *every single other miracle* that is unique to John is a counterexample to Ehrman's claim. There are also numerous other points of evidence that show that his claim about this "different Jesus" in John and the Synoptics is just false.If you're interested in more on Jesus in John, check out _The Eye of the Beholder: The Gospel of John as Historical Reportage_:https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Beholder-Gospel-Historical-Reportage/dp/1947929151/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2P5N15K1P8TIJ&dchild=1&keywords=the+eye+of+the+beholder+lydia+mcgrew&qid=1617757441&s=books&sprefix=the+eye+of+the+beholder%2Cstripbooks%2C185&sr=1-1
