Whoever the Beloved Disciple was – that is, the Johannine church’s original eyewitness – he had a sharp eye and a keen ear, for he picked up on details ignored by the other evangelists. In many of Jesus’s encounters, the dialogue has the quick, prickly humor of the Greek theatrical comedy. After Philip is called by Jesus, he runs into Nathaniel (to be identified perhaps with the Bartholomew of the Synoptic tradition) and exclaims:

“We’ve found the One that Moses
wrote about in the Torah and the
prophets wrote about, too – he’s
Jesus bar-Joseph from Nazareth!”

“Nazareth! Please. What good
ever came out of Nazareth?”

Desire of the Everlasting Hills, de Thomas Cahill

Adorei esse pedaço. Mas não vejo a hora de acabar; que livro chatinho. Acho que vou encarar outro Dawkins depois, pra amenizar os efeitos jesuíticos desse aqui.