Il binomio verbale πιστεύω/ὁράω nel Vangelo di Giovanni

In the 9 occurrences of the Fourth Gospel (John 3:36; 4:48; 6:30, 36; 11:40; 20:8, 25, 29bis), the verbal combination πιστεύω / ὁράω seems to correspond to a theological intention of the evangelist that contrasts the human logic of “believing to seeing” with the Christological project of “seeing to believing”through the repetition of the verbal pair. The study starts with the frequencies of the two verbs in pairs in the OT and NT, where we see a similar orientation in the gospel of John. A pattern emerges which is linked to the journey of faith and is evident in the stories in which the couple πιστεύω / ὁράω is found and finally summarized in the epilogue of the beatitude of John 20:29.