CHARITY AS WORSHIP OF GOD

Abstract

This article argues that there is a uniquely Johannine perspective on poverty and charity. In order to access this perspective, a careful analysis of the contexts - macro and micro - of Jn 12:8 is indispensable. After a contextual analysis of Jn 12:8, it becomes evident that the final redactor uses it, elucidated by its contexts, to prove that there are horizontal and vertical perspectives to poverty and charity: both God and humans could be poor, hence, objects of human charity.