A FÉ PROFESSADA: ANÁLISE EXEGÉTICA DE JO 9,7B-38

Abstract

This research aims to investigate exegetically professed faith in John 9:7b-38. The goal is to demonstrate that, from the itinerary traveled by the typological figure of the former blind, narrated in John 9:7b-38, the community builds up smartly and boldly its protagonism and its history, becoming a source of inspiration and alternative response to the Synagogue that questions, intimates, intimidates and expels (9:18.22.34). The study, from a hermeneutic bias, presents the situation and the reality of the first century in which lived the Johannine community, punctuating his existential trajectory. It reflects on the use and semantics of the term Jews, highlighting which the identity and role that it assumes. Starting with the semantics of verbs and keywords of the pericope, it seeks to respond to a controversy with the Jews. We Seek to analyze exegetically the judicial process through which the former blind was submitted and his faith profession and how his protagonism was developed, thus making the story a literary response to the historical moment. The research aims to highlight the consequences of former blind confession/protagonism. On the one hand, the expelling; on the other, the accusation forged the gradual gestation of the community identity and building of its christological confession through major titles proclaimed by the former blind man: at the beginning it is only a man named Jesus (9:11), but not only; then a prophet (9:17) and, at last, the Son of Man (9:35). Finally, the former blind protagonism becomes synonymous with professed faith and therefore prophetic paradigm, inspiring and alternative promoter precisely because he preferred to be expelled out of the synagogue in order to remain faithful to the community.