plenitudotemporis replied to your quote: Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with…
“Water” from around the heart, and of course blood. What’s to discuss? It’s biology.
I’m guessing that the central Christian sacraments of Baptism (water) and Eucharist (blood) were more important to the story than the biology of Jesus’ death.
mushfromnewsies replied to your quote: Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with…
as an evangelical I think I heard it interpreted as John/the Gospel witness providing evidence to [presumably first century/Jewish] readers that Jesus actually died and wasn’t faking his death.
That’s the way I’ve heard it too. But John is so full of symbolism that it’s hard to believe that it’s just a plot point.
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