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Did John expect his readers to catch the mistakes Jews made relating to Jesus and his teachings?

Did John expect his readers to catch the mistakes Jews made relating to Jesus and his teachings?

The Jews said the Christ is to come from Bethlehem in John 7:42, not knowing that Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee? 42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43 So there was a division among the people over him. 44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
(John 7:40–44, ESV)

Here they are arguing over who Jesus is, but when Christ comes from Bethlehem is brought up, no one mentions he was born in Bethlehem.

John wrote his Gospel after the synoptics and seems to avoid repeating what is in the Synoptic Gospels as if expecting his readers to already be familiar to them. (When John refers to what is ‘not written’, in his gospel account, does he mean, in part at least, the parables of Jesus?)
Thus, John would expect his readers to know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

Did John point out the mistakes the Jews made related with Jesus and his teachings expecting the reader to catch the mistake?

Another example; are there more?

John 8:33 Why does Jesus not correct the Jews when they said they they were never slaves of anyone?

This style would take up less room on the scroll and engage the reader.

Did Josephus misinterpret Ezekiel 12:13?

Did Josephus misinterpret Ezekiel 12:13?

According to Josephus:

Ezekiel also foretold in Babylon what calamities were coming upon the people, which when he heard, he sent accounts of them unto Jerusalem. But Zedekiah did not believe their prophecies, for the reason following:…

How did Korah’s descendants survive?

How did Korah’s descendants survive?

Numbers 16:32
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.
Numbers 26:10The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose foll…

Jeremiah 31:32 Which covenant did they break?

Jeremiah 31:32 Which covenant did they break?

Jeremiah 31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake,

The majority of references I’ve come across assume …