The question of feasts in the Gospel of John has been a longstanding problem in New Testament studies. Michael A. Daise addresses the question of the rationale lying behind the six feasts in the Gospel of John by arguing that, in an earlier recension, those feasts were sequenced into a single, liturgical year and furnished temporal momentum for the motif of Jesus' "hour". His argument assumes that, in an earlier edition of the Fourth Gospel, chapters 5 and 6 were inverted; and it turns on the premise that the Passover at John 6:4 is to be read not as a regular Passover, observed on 14 Nisan, but as the "Second Passover" of Numbers 9:9-14, observed on 14 Iyyar.weiterlesen