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The Use of Traditions in John 5.1-18

It is commonly accepted that the story in Jn 5.2-9a is traditional and homogeneous as it stands. This agreement applies to both upholders and opponents of the signs-source hypothesis. I hope to show that this communis opinio is unwarranted and that even a story in which ’the Johannine coinage ... is very modest’ 1 cannot be regarded without further ado as an integral part of the pre-Johannine tradition, be it written or not, but that it shows signs of John’s reworking of his material until it suited him. Secondly, some words will be said about the function of the traditions in the literary structure of vv. 1-18.