Hi Tammy,
First let me say, how much appreciate your answers -- thank you. I would like to expand on the woman caught in the act of adultery, which is indeed from John 8. You said...
My Lord says to me again, "John."
I again ignore him, and look through Mark. Again I do not find the passage.
Lets imagine Christ really was the one to say "John" in this instance. One of the things that would imply is Christ knows how to speak English. As far as we know when on earth Jesus spoke Aramaic. Given the time and place he lived he could have also been familiar with Greek, Latin and Hebrew, but certainly not modern English. The universe is an extremely large place, and you are on a planet in orbit the Sun on the outer region of the milky way galaxy. The earth is large too and spinning at a rate of about 1000 miles per hour. Thus Christ would need to know where to locate you. Then he would need some way to trigger the portion of your brain relates to language and hearing, then cognition. If Christ were physically in the same room as you, and could create sound like we do, then of course he could simply say, "John" and you would hear it with your normal sense of hearing.
Next we have to imagine he would have some purpose in doing this. We have to be careful in answer this because it could create a moral dilemma. We must face the question of why such incredible power is used to produce an audible "John" for you, yet there is so much suffering in the world. Many children die each day from malnutrition for example. So why would Christ make "John" and audible artifact to you? Perhaps it was to teach you to rely upon him. Or it could be to give you assurance that this passage is not a spurious. But, notice, it centers on you. The dilemma your mind was facing -- namely not being able to recall where this passage was. This is what I mean by ego-centric, personal (although I do stress, I don't mean to imply this is a negative thing).
If Christ only exists within your mind, then these events would need natural explanation that avoided the supernatural. So... the first thing to suggest, is you must have in the past seen these verses in John. In other words the knowledge of where these verses exist must have been encoded in your brain by some prior experience. I assume that is so? Next there must be some evidence that memory recall within a human mind is not perfect and it is possible to be confused by where to locate this information. I would further suggest there could be some proximate reason why you assumed Mark (i.e. top-of-mind, as advertisers like to accomplish) vs deeper knowledge you also had it was in John. Since the brain is so complex, it may be hard to discover that reason. But it could be as simple as you have been reading Mark recently, especially would my theory work if you had been reading a passge in Mark where Jesus comments on adultery or interacts with a woman. Do any of these suggestions align with your experience?
The difference between these two explanations is the natural one is cheaper and it doesn't create a moral dilemma of any sort. Although it may seem disrespectful to even ask if Christ knows English or not, or where to locate his followers on planet earth, such things would be real problems and being able to address them indicates vast power that leads to questions of how and why such power is used.
Cheers,
-Randy