In testifying to the faithfulness of Sir Gawain, saying, “all his trust upon earth was in the five wounds that Christ bare on the cross,” the author alludes to the crucifixion of Christ, and the details of Christ’s wounds, as found in JOHN 19 : 34 and JOHN 20 : 27.
Creation
The minstrels of King Hrothgar’s court sing of “He who could tell of men’s beginning from olden time, spoke of how the Almighty wrought the world. . .” alluding to GENESIS 1 : 1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” and JOHN 1 : 1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”