요한복음 9장의 재판 구조를 통한 죄 이해

After Jesus healed the man who had been blind from birth on the Sabbath, the Pharisees expelled the man from the synagogue(9:22) convicting him of violating the Sabbath tradition through a trial. The author of the Gospel of John discloses the difference in the point of view of sin between the Jews and Jesus throughout the event. This difference is exhibited by a double judgment in dealing with the essence of the sin: The first trial is held by the Jews, and the second trial is conducted by Jesus. In order to approach the author's viewpoint of sin, this article interpreted John 9 through the analysis of the forensic genre of rhetoric in the double judgment structure. The Gospel's viewpoint of sin is not understood as a concept of ethical action, but is rather interpreted as a relationship with Jesus. To the Jews, in dealing with the man who had been blind from birth, their action is understood as a punishment for a crime, but to Jesus, the healing was intended to manifest the work of God. This difference in understanding sin clearly presents opposing arguments with regard to the Sabbath law. The majority of the Pharisees estimate Jesus’healing ministry as a sin in terms of action. But a minority of the Pharisees and the blind man confer a legality to Jesus’ ministry in terms of relationship between the God and Jesus. The problem of sin reaches its climax when Jesus declares his own identity as the Son of Man (9:37). The author, who emphasizes “seeing”and “not seeing” throughout the whole judgment, depicts the man born blind as one who believes in Jesus as the Son of Man while disclosing the sin of the Jews who do not see Jesus. The Jews have eyes but they cannot see Jesus as the Son of Man. The sin in the Gospel is not-believing in Jesus as the Son of Man. Therefore, the Gospel of John does not explain the sin in terms of an ethical action but in terms of a relationship with Jesus.