xii.
may have been suggested by John iii.

14 sqq., but we cannot say that it was so with certainty.

The same application is made by Justin in a place where there is perhaps less reason to assume a connection with the fourth Gospel; and we know that types and prophecies were eagerly sought out by the early Christians, and were soon collected in a kind of common stock from which every one drew at his pleasure.

A stronger case, and one that I incline to think of some importance, is supplied by the peculiar combination of 'the water and the cross' in Barn.c.

xi; not that here there is a direct and immediate, but more probably a mediate, connection with the fourth Gospel.