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Jesus Remembered: Christianity in the Making, vol. 1

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§13.8 For Whom Did <strong>Jesus</strong> Intend His Message?<br />

discipleship. 252 Mark recalls that those who tried to do so were rebuked by <strong>Jesus</strong><br />

(Mark 9.38-41/Luke 9.49-50). 253<br />

In <strong>the</strong> light of all this, and still unable to resolve whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> response of<br />

discipleship was a condition of <strong>the</strong> k<strong>in</strong>gdom's com<strong>in</strong>g or <strong>the</strong> mode of its presence,<br />

we can at least attempt fur<strong>the</strong>r clarification by ask<strong>in</strong>g: How should <strong>the</strong> discipleship<br />

for which <strong>Jesus</strong> called be characterized?<br />

252. See particularly Schräge, Ethics 49-51.<br />

253. See fur<strong>the</strong>r Stauffer, '<strong>Jesus</strong>' 61-63.<br />

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