At this point the narrator’s interest in Jesus’ itinerary begins to wane. The events of chapters 5, 6, and 7 are introduced by the vague connective phrase, meta tauta (some time later, 5:1; “some time after this,” 6:1; “after this,” 7:1). The transition from chapter 4 to chapter 5 is a natural one in that a person appropriately goes to Jerusalem from Galilee for a feast of the Jews (v. 1), but the transition between chapters 5 and 6 is more awkward. Jesus is assumed to be still in Jerusalem at the end of chapter 5, but the beginning of chapter 6 finds him in Galilee about to cross from one side of Lake Galilee to the other (6:1). For this reason, some scholars have proposed that the order of chapters 5 and 6 be reversed: Jesus is in Galilee at the end of chapter 4, continues there in chapt…