".....what is that to you?" Jn 21:22

[brigid12]

Is this comment (in your opinion) mean “None of your business” or “It is My place to decide so get some humility” or a cultural colloquialism (I recently read that in an article that was by a priest that I don’t remember by name)?

 

[DaveBj]

It is an ancient semitism (semitic-language colloquialism) that occurs many times in the OT. It survives in modern colloquial Arabic as something like “Shuu baini wbainak?” The literal translation here and in the OT is, “What between-me and-between-you?” In colloquial English it would be, “What does that (or you) have to do with me?”

DaveBj

 

[thistle]

Is this comment (in your opinion) mean “None of your business” or “It is My place to decide so get some humility” or a cultural colloquialism (I recently read that in an article that was by a priest that I don’t remember by name)?

D-R Bible, Hatdock Commentary:

Ver. 22. Jesus saith: so I will have him remain,[3] &c. That is, in case I will have him remain; or, as it is in the Greek, if I will have him remain, what is that to thee? It is thy duty, and thy concern, to follow me. (Witham) — When Christ told St. Peter to follow him, he meant, that he should go like himself to the death of the cross; but when he says of St. John, So I will have him to remain till I come, he insinuates that his beloved disciple should not undergo a violent death; but remain in the world, till he should visit him by death, and conduct him to glory. It may likewise be understood of the Revelation, in which our Saviour manifested himself in his glory to this his beloved disciple. In the Greek, it is, if I will have him to remain; and this is the true reading, according to Estius, and Jansenius, bishop of Ghent, authorized by many Latin copies. Others refer these words of Christ to his coming to destroy Jerusalem: an epoch which St. John survived.

 

[puzzleannie]

to me it sounds like “Hey, Pete, we are discussing you, don’t change the subject” as Peter’s turn of conversation is a common one with persons who are in confrontation with someone who is trying to help them. Well, what about my wife, my coworker, the guy who got off scot free for the same crime. Or the person who is asking for direction on his own vocation, and goes off on a tangent about other people.

 

[brigid12]

to me it sounds like “Hey, Pete, we are discussing you, don’t change the subject” as Peter’s turn of conversation is a common one with persons who are in confrontation with someone who is trying to help them. Well, what about my wife, my coworker, the guy who got off scot free for the same crime. Or the person who is asking for direction on his own vocation, and goes off on a tangent about other people.

Thank all of you for your help!