of sins (1:4) and thereby the inclusion of the Gentiles at the Lord’s Supper. Thus at the baptismal death of Jesus the initial voice (phonē) declaring the way (hodos) of the passion (1:3) announces, as Jesus rises from the water, that Jesus is the beloved Son (1:10–11). The disciples’ silence in the face of Jesus’s question mirrors the silence of the Jews gathered in the synagogue when the man with the withered arm was restored. Such silence cues the liturgical reader to both the disciples’ discomfort