¥What should we make of this?
¥RH Charles has John borrowing from paganism.
¥CS Lewis, in PilgrimÕs Regress and in Till We Have Faces, suggests that God implanted stories among the pagans,
which (though distorted & corrupted
by them) still testify to GodÕs redemptive
purpose.
¥This would fit JesusÕ remark in John 12:23-24 (when Greeks came to him)
about a grain of wheat dying & rising to
produce many seeds.